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With 11,028,664 bearers, Kim is the 1st most common surname in South Korea (2014 Data).Source: https://forebears.io/surnames/kim
Kim is the third most common last name in Hawaii, and the most common surname in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Kim Ji-soo from Black Pink. She is a singer and an actress.
Chloe Kim is an American snowboarder. She was the youngest Olympian gold medalist when participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics at age 17.
Moreover, 4 famous people with this surname are Kim Junmyeon, Kim Minseok, Kim Jongin, and Kim Jongdae from the boyband Exo, give them a listen.
3 famous bearers of this name are Kim Namjoon, Kim Seokjin and Kim Taehyung of the South Korean boyband BTS.
I'm not quite sure where 김 came from, unfortunately, but 금 is the character that means gold in Korean, and it's a different syllable entirely. Did it become 김 over time? I couldn't say, because I don't have the documentation to prove it one way or the other.

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