Do Koreans even exist? part 7. Conclusions
Continuing where we left off in the previous post, Gojoseon, ~1500 - 108 BCE. Mumun: 1500 BCE-~800 BCE Fuck. Mumun again. 1500 BCE But the window has already closed. How deflating. But what does "the window has already closed" even mean? It means that we are now able to trace Koreans back from today to an ancient past uninterrupted. A single line with no obvious gaps in between. Using Soil, Blood, Words, Stuff, Books, and Stories, we have managed to weave together a People across a span of 702,026 years, give or take a few thousand. This doesn't mean Korean People are 702,026 years old. That would be ridiculous. But it also doesn't mean that Koreans are 129 years old either, back when King Gojong of Joseon declared the Han 韓 People into existence in 1897. So the truth lies somewhere in between 700,000 BCE and 2026 CE. So the question is when? Or to put it more accurately, To whom, and when, can modern Koreans reasonably claim ancestry to? Obviously, people born 1,000 ...