Tae (Korean surname)
Tae, also spelled Tai or Thae, is a rare Korean family name. It is written with a hanja character meaning "great".
Clans
As a rare Korean family name, Tae is written with only one hanja, meaning "great". They are a noble clan directly descended from the royal family of the Balhae dynasty. The clan ancestor is Dae Jung-sang, the father of the founder of Balhae, Dae Jo-young. The 2000 South Korean Census found 8,165 people with the family name Tae. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 28.5% of people with that surname spelled it in Latin letters as Tai in their passports, vs. 57.1% as Tae. People with this surname trace their origins to several bon-gwan, including Namwon and Yeongsun in what is now South Korea and Hyopgye in what is now North Korea.Notable people
People with this family name include:- T'ae Kŭm-ch'wi, Goryeo military commander, founder of the Yeongsun Tae clan
- Tae Wan-son, South Korean politician and businessman who served as minister of Construction Department.
- Thae Byong-ryol, North Korean general
- Thae Jong-su, North Korean politician
- Tae Hyun-sil, South Korean actress
- Thae Hyong-chol, North Korean politician
- Tae Yong-ho, North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea in 2016
- Tae Hang-ho, South Korean actor
- Tae Won-seok, South Korean actor
- Tae Yoon, South Korean football player in India