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Korea is the anti-USA. USA has weak neighbors it doesn't have to worry about (Mexico, Canada). Korea has strong neighbors it always has to worry about (China, Japan).
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Koreans were historically hard asses, now they are becoming fags
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Generally Koreans overlap a lot with Northern Chinese and Mongolians, who are taller and stronger built than most other Asian ethnicities. South Korea is the tallest Asian country on average, but their average height is actually still shorter than most Northern Chinese provinces.
It's a miracle honestly that Korea is independent, even if it is divided. All of the other peoples and kingdoms that once existed there were swallowed up by China or Japan or even parts of Russia now. Mongolia got off lucky too, otherwise they would be an autonomous region of China today like Inner Mongolia is.
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Yep... Korea & Japan took or 'stole' almost everything of their traditions, culture etc. from Old China.
Also it's quite interesting that adopted chinese things usually begins with 'Han...' or 'Kan'... at least in Japan. Japanese traditional writing characters - 'Kanji' for example.
But what's seperates Japanese from Koreans is that Japanese usually admit it all as a chinese 'import', while koreans have a tough time admitting it.
Heard a lot of Koreans who say 'Han' term belongs to Koreans only & Chinese have nothing to do with it. They call their country 'Han Gook', call their women's clothes 'Hanbok' etc. 'Han River' flows through Seoul etc.
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Well, to be fair the "Han" that Koreans use is different, it refers to the Han River, this is the character 韓
Han in the Chinese sense refers to the Han Dynasty and it is this character 漢
Koreans probably have a harder time admitting it because modern Koreans are zealously nationalistic, almost like they were religious about it. They are the most nationalistic people in the world today, most likely because they've spent their history fighting off stronger neighbors. But yes, if it weren't for a fluke of history and Korean kings traditionally being the most devoted and friendly client state to succeeding Chinese courts, then Korea would've been absorbed as a Chinese province a long time ago.
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