[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 34, Issue 33

[Henny Savenije]

Park Yon's descendants in Korea are unknown, the rest of the crew had 
(most likely) descendants but since genealogies at the end of the 
19th century were forged a lot there is only ONE descendant of the 
crew who openly admits and is proud of his family tree. The Kangjin 
government is doing it's best to convince the others to be open about 
their lineage, they are having a hard time.

MBC aired a number of shows around Solnal about couples in mixed 
marriages in order to promote the interest and the awareness of 
people. However from the eight couples there was only one of which 
the husband came from a South Asian country (Pakistan) one of which 
the wife came from the Japan.

The others came from Slovakia, Egypt, Iran, America, Switzerland and 
Holland. Also a hastily formed Dutch youth team played soccer against 
ShootDori and during the match (read: show) mainly the Dutch blond 
children were shown and not the mixed children.

I think Korea still has to go a long way to accept fully the idea of 
integration.



At 10:38 PM 5/1/2006, you wrote:

>Ken Quinones brings a very interesting angle to the discussion. But 
>I would complicate it by pointing out that certain of these "Korean" 
>lineages were started by Chinese, Japanese, and Jurchen 
>"immigrants." And perhaps Professor Ledyard will be able to tell us 
>the current status of Pak YOn's decendents?
>
>Cheers,
>
>John Frankl
>
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