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Do Koreans even exist? part 1. Blood

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Do Koreans even exist? What a silly question. Of course they do. In fact there are approximately 85 million of them. South Korea: ~51,500,000 (60.6%) North Korea: ~26,200,000 (30.8%) United States: ~2,600,000 (3.1%) China: ~2,100,000 (2.5%) ROW: ~2,600,000 (3.0%) In fact, of the 193 member states in the United Nations (plus two non-member observer states, Vatican City and Palestine), according to the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Koreans exist in 182 of them. Living. Breathing. Some even flag-waving.  Real world human beings that are Korean . In fact, I'm one myself. Then why would I even question whether Koreans exist? It's not that I question whether there are people in this world that identify as Korean, it's that I question whether the term ' Korean ' itself is real in the first place. For that matter, I question whether any category we attach to people, be it race, ethnicity, tribe, or clan, is real . As we explored in the previous post: ' People ...
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Where do Koreans come from?

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Where do Koreans come from? In fact, Where do any of us come from? Americans. Germans. English. Kurds. The Luo. The Lakota. The Yanomami. The Arrernte. What does,  'Us' and  'come from' ...even mean? That is exactly the subject I want to cover today. While I'll be mostly talking about Koreans, I'm using them because I'm Korean and I know some things about Koreans. As you will find out, ' Us ' and ' come from ' are much more complicated than they seem to be. - ה - According to Wikipedia: Koreans (한국인; Hanguk-in)   are an East Asian ethnic group,  Han-minjok (한민족) ,   native to the Korean Peninsula (한반도) ,  primarily living in South Korea (한국; Republic of Korea) and North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), with a global diaspora of over 7 million people in countries like the United States, China, and Japan.  They share a common language Korean (한국말/한글) , unique cultural history, and traditions. Korea is a peninsula located i...
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