Name
His title Geoseogan (거서간, 居西干) or Geoseulhan (거슬한, 居瑟邯), means "King" in the language of the Jinhan confederacy, the group of chiefdoms in the southeast of the Korean Peninsula.
His surname was Bak(Park, Pak), which comes from the Korean word for "gourd", as legend says that he was born from an egg shaped like a gourd.
"Hyeokgeose" was not a personal name, but the hanja for his honorific name, pronounced "Bulgeunae" (불그내) in archaic Korean, meaning "bright world."
Read more about this topic: Hyeokgeose Of Silla
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