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Also known as Soung, 송, 宋

Song is a Korean family name derived from the Chinese surname Song. Songs make up roughly 1.4% of the Korean population; the 2000 South Korean census found 622,208 in that country.

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Song is a Korean family name derived from the Chinese surname Song. Songs make up roughly 1.4% of the Korean population; the 2000 South Korean census found 622,208 in that country.

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Kinds

Song (宋) family : Various Korean family name.

Song (訟) family : unknown origin, later surname change to Seong (成) and became the Gangneung Seong clan.

Song (松) family : the Song Yang (松讓) ethnicity in the Buyeo kingdom.

Clans

Song (宋) clans include the Yeosan, Eunjin, Jincheon, Yeonan, Yaseong, Cheongju, Sinpyeong, Gimhae, Namyang and Bokheung.

One Song (松) clan is the Yong Song.

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Also known as Soung, 송, 宋

Notable quotes

“What is not worth saying sounds very well when it is sung.”
— Pierre Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville (1773), 1, 2; Figaro loq.
“The best days of the church have always been its singing days.”
— Theodore L. Cuyler, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 554
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To a Skylark" (1820).
“Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?”
— Matthew Prior, A Better Answer.
“Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.”
— Theocritus, Idyl, IX. Translation by Andrew Lang, Stanza 2.
“A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.”
— Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann. (1770).

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