Pyongsan Shin clan

The Pyongsan Shin clan (Korean: 평산 신씨) is one of the great aristocratic houses which originated from Korea.

The Pyongsan Shin clan is a Korean noble family, which took its root during the 10th century, at the time of the foundation of the Goryeo Dynasty.

The founder of the clan is generally accepted to be General Sin Sung-gyŏm, who helped Wang Kŏn found the kingdom by dethroning the tyrant Kung Ye, alongside Pae Hyŏn-gyŏng (배현경; 裵玄慶), Hong Yu (홍유; 洪儒), and Pok Chi-gyŏm (복지겸; 卜智謙) in 918.

[3] King Taejo was impressed and bestowed Sin with the land area, Pyongsan, over which the geese had been flying, hence the family line originated there.

As other yangban of the time, members of the Pyongsan Shin clan successfully passed the gwageo, or the national civil service examinations.

Painting by Sa An-do : Sin Sung-gyŏm hitting a goose with an arrow above Pyongsan, Korea .