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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 (한민족; Hanmijok) 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 in East Asia, surroun...
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Wille zum Nichtsterben.

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οἵη περ φύλλων γενεὴ τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν· φύλλα τὰ μέν τ’ ἄνεμος χαμάδις χέει, ἄλλα δέ θ’ ὕλη τηλεθόωσα φύει, ἔαρος δ’ ἐπιγίγνεται ὥρη· ὣς ἀνδρῶν γενεὴ ἣ μὲν φύει ἣ δ’ ἀπολήγει. (“Like the generations of leaves are those of men. The wind scatters one generation to the ground; the forest grows another when spring returns. So one generation of men grows while another passes away.”) - Homer, Iliad , VI.146–149 - In the previous post we traced Wille zum Leben from the moment immediately after the Big Bang to the rise of Human Agency and Will. We watched the birth and death of stars, and the emergence of Life. Somewhere during the journey we bid farewell to Schopenhauer, only to resurrect Wille at the end.      from a soup of quarks and particles,      we became protons and neutrons,       nuclei and atoms,       we gained a boundary; assembled into cells, and somewhere along the way burst into Life,      w...
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