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| cydevil | Dec 31 2007, 09:40 AM |
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I've come across this interesting news article written by a Korean professor who specializes in anaylsis of Korean faces. Generally, the article is supportive of the theory that Koreans consist of multiethnic mixture, and that 80% of Koreans are "northern" while 20% of Koreans are "southern". Here's a diagram that pretty much sums up his views on ethnic typology of Korean faces and period of migration of specific ethnic groups. The X axis is the period of time in which the ethnic group migrated into the Korean peninsula. From left to right, they are as follows: 50,000 years ago 12,000 10,000 8,000 5,000 2,000 1,000 The Y axis is the ethnic typology and their percentages within the Korean population. From top to bottom, they are as follows: 3rd southern lineage 2nd southern lineage 1st southern lineage Paleo-Siberian(Paleo-Asian) Chinese Intermediate(between Chinese and Tungusic) Tungusic Altai The map is a distribution map of northern type and southern type Koreans. Dark circles are areas where southern types are more dominant, and light circles are areas where northern types are more dominant. According to this professor, Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, is a typical northern-Altaic type. Park Chanho, the baseball player, on the other hand, is a southern type. Link to the article(in Korean): http://article.joins.com/article/article.a...otal_id=2862004 |
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