Urok Kim clan

The Urok Kim clan (Korean: 우록 김씨; Hanja: 友鹿 金氏), officially the Gimhae Kim clan (Korean: 김해 김씨; Hanja: 金海 金氏), is a Korean clan descended from Kim Chung-seon, a general in the Japanese forces that invaded Korea in 1592.

He defected to the Korean side and fought against the Japanese invaders.

[1] He became a Korean citizen and was given the name Kim Chung-seon, official rank, the land of Gachang located in the suburbs of Daegu, and the ancestral seat (bon-gwan) of Gimhae.

Kim Chung-seon married the daughter of the lord of Jinju in South Gyeongsang Province.

The term saseong means that it was a surname given by the king.