What's in a name? How S. Koreans faked their way to Kim, Lee and Park


SEOUL: If you meet a South Korean, there's a 45 per cent chance that their surname is either Kim, Lee or Park. And there’s an even higher probability -- some say nearly 90 per cent -- that their surname originates from a bogus family tree.

According to the latest census data from Statistics Korea, these three surnames account for nearly half the population, which is over 20 million people. Expand that to the top 10 surnames, and you're looking at 64 per cent of the population.

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