   hyeokgeose of silla (69 bc - 4 ad, r. 57 bc&ndash;4 ad), commonly called bak (park, pak) hyeokgeose, was the founding monarch of silla, one of the three kingdoms of korea.samguk sagi he was the progenitor of all bak (park) clans in korea. == name == his title geoseogan (ê±°ìê°, å±è¥¿å¹²) or geoseulhan (ê±°ì¬í, å±çé¯), means "king" in the language of the jinhan confederacy, the group of chiefdoms in the southeast of the korean peninsula. his surname was bak (park, pak), which comes from the korean word for "calabash," as legend says that he was born from an egg shaped like a gourd. he is thus known as the originator of the korean family name park (ë°, æ´). "hyeokgeose" was not a personal name, but the hanja for his honorific name, pronounced "bulgeunae" (å¼ç©å ë¶ê·¸ë´) in archaic korean, meaning "bright world." èµ« hyeok, a chinese character that means "bright, radiant, glowing" (from doubling the character for èµ¤ jeok "red"), is used to transcribe the korean adjective stem ë¸ bylg- > ë¶ bulg- "red" (< ancient korean word for "red; brightly colored; bright"). å± geo, a chinese character that means "live, dwell, reside, sit," is used to transcribe the korean prenominal adjective inflection ã´ -n ~ ì -eun "~ that is (bright/red), ~ which is (bright/red)." ä¸ se, a chinese character that means "generation; world; era," is used to transcribe an ancient word related to the obsolescent korean word ë nuy ~ ëë¦¬ nuri "world."daum encyclopedia (korean) == founding legend == the [[samguk s
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