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Yeom

廉 — Frugal, Upright

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Origin & History

The Yeom surname is strongly associated with the Paju Yeom clan, whose founding ancestor arrived from China during the Tang dynasty period. The character 廉 conveys moral uprightness and modesty, values that the clan emphasised through generations of Confucian scholarship.