[KS] Place names and family names (very short)

[Stefan Ewing]

Dear Frank and other KS list members:

One other useful resource I forgot to mention is Naver's Hancha address 
lookup service (http://hanja.naver.com/hanja.naver?where=post).  This gives 
the Hancha forms of all current administrative divisions in the ROK, 
organized hierarchically (of course) from Seoul, Busan, etc. and the 
Provinces down to dongs (for cities), eups, and myeons.

While I'm on the subject, Naver also offers information on all Korean family 
names (http://hanja.naver.com/hanja.naver?where=fname&index=0), organized in 
"ganada" order then by _bon-gwan_ (ancestral hometown--what's a suitable 
English translation?), down to the level of local (sub-?)clan (e.g., Jeonju 
Yi, etc.), with short articles on the historical origins of the larger 
clans.  (Is there a set scholarly terminology in English when discussing 
Korean family groupings?)

(Used SK government romanization system throughout for consistency's sake.)

Yours,
Stefan Ewing

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