Yook

This article is about the Korean surname. For the fictional people from a Dr. Seuss book, see The Butter Battle Book.
Yook
Hangul
육
Hanja
Revised RomanizationYuk
McCune–ReischauerYuk

Yook, also spelled Yuk or Youk, is an uncommon Korean family name. It is written with the same Hanja character as the Chinese surname, Lu (陸). It has only one clan, the Okcheon Yook clan, based in Okcheon County, North Chungcheong Province. According to the 2015 South Korean census, there were 23,455 people with the surname, Yook.[1]

  1. ^ "2015년 인구주택총조사 전수집계결과 보도자료" [Results of the 2015 Census of Population and Housing survey]. Korean Statistical Information Service. Retrieved 26 April 2020.