Gimhae Gim clan

The Gimhae Heo clan founder was King Suro, whose wife was Queen Heo Hwang-ok. She set sail from India, later arriving at Gimhae.[12] Some sources have identified Ayodhya in North India as the native place of Queen Heo Hwang-ok,[4] while other sources identify her being of tamil origin from South India.[12]

In 2004, scientific proof demonstrated that Heo Hwang-ok was a person of Indian origin. 徐廷송, professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Seoul University, and 김정일, professor at Faculty of Medicine at Hallym University, reported their finding to The Genetics Society of Korea.[12] Having analyzed remains in an old burial mound containing what they assumed are remains of the Heo Hwang-ok clan, they concluded that Heo Hwang-ok's ancestor was not from Northern Mongolia (origination of Koreans) but from Southern Indian. Her clan dates back to Pandya’s clan in India. These findings were based on analyses of sampled Mitochondrial DNA.[12] Heo Hwang-ok may be a queen of the Satavahana dynasty in India. She came to the Gaya confederacy in the year 48 AD. Some suggest that Heo came from Tamil Nadu, as many Koreans words that sound similar to the words used in the region. Academics are split as to her true origin. The connection between the two cultures is believed to date back to the reign of King Suro and Ayi of Pandya Kingdom in 45 AD. Experts don't rule out the possibility of Queen Huh (Queen Heo Hwang-ok) bringing Tamil culture to Korea with her when she left India, according to Korean envoy Kygsoo Kim.[2] Queen Heo Hwang-ok bore ten children. Two of them were given Heo's surname, and they were the origin of Gimhae Heo clan. According to the Samguk Sagi, Gim Yu-sin was 12 th grandchildren of Suro.

Queen Heo Hwang-ok's association with Ayodhya is based on the book "Heo Hwang-ok Route: From India to Gaya of Korea" by a Senior Archeologist and Emeritus Professor at Hanyang University, Kim Byung-mo,[4] which is considered speculative by some.[6][1] Memorial of Heo Hwang-ok in Ayodhya,[13] is visited by a large number of Koreans, especially around jesa in April, to pay tribute to Queen Heo Hwang-ok as she is considered an ancestor to large number of Koreans. She was supposedly of Indian-origin from Ayodhya and had traveled to Korea to marry King Suro of Geumgwan Gaya in 48 CE.[13][14][15][16]

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  A commemorative Rs. 25.00 postage stamp on Princess Suriratna (Queen Heo Hwang-ok ) was issued by India in 2019.
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  A commemorative Rs. 5.00 postage stamp on Queen Heo Hwang-ok (Princess Suriratna) was issued by India in 2019.
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  Tomb of King Suro in Gimhae.
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  Tomb of Heo Hwang-ok (Queen of King Suro) in Gimhae.

• Korean clan names of foreign origin