Yun is ninth most common family name in Korea. The name is sometimes also transliterated as Yoon. It is one of the few names that has a "surname character" assigned to it - i.e. the character only has the definition "surname" while used in Korea and is only used to denote the surname. Hangul is the native alphabet used to write the Korean language, as opposed to the Hanja system borrowed from China. ... Hanja (lit. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... McCune-Reischauer is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ... A Korean personal name consists of a family name and a given name, both of which are generally composed of Hanja. ... Korea is a formerly unified country, situated on the Korean Peninsula in northern East Asia, bordering on China to the west and Russia to the north. ...

The Papyong Yun clan is the most noble clan in the surname; several of Papyong Yun women have become queens. The Clan's founding ancestor is General Yun Shin Dal.

Famous Koreans with this family name:

• Composer Yun Isang
• Second president of South Korea Yun Po Sun
• Yun Son Ha, actress

Yún (云) is also an abbreviation for the Chinese province of Yunnan. ... The President is head of state of South Korea. ... Yun Po Sun (August 26, 1897 - July 18, 1990) was the President of South Korea during 1960 - 1962. ... ... For other province-level divisions, see Political divisions of China. ... Yunnan (Simplified Chinese: 云南; Traditional Chinese: 雲南; pinyin: Yúnnán) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located in the far southwestern corner of the country. ...