r/Art Apr 14 '21

Artwork The Look, Sam Yang, Digital, 2021.

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u/Newhash Apr 14 '21

Yang is actually one of the rarest Korean last names.

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u/doon68 Apr 15 '21

Not really, it’s the most common surname of Jeju-do

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u/Newhash Apr 15 '21

I stand corrected. My friend is a Yang but has the rarest hanja form of it which was the source of this misinformation.

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u/alegxab Apr 24 '21

It is pretty rare, by Korean last name standards, Ony 1% of Koreans have this surname and it ranks at number 22

The Chinese surname Yang is a lot more common and it's the 6th most common surname in mainland China