Another Korean man with light-mixed eyes

[Hoihey]

Over the course of many years, I’ve come across a lot of Koreans whose eyes seemed... different than the seemingly uniform brown color of East Asians. I’ve been looking at stock photos of random Koreans and I found yet another Korean man with unmistakably non brown eyes. What gives? Can someone please explain this to me? What genes did they get that lighten their eyes?

[PaleoEuropean]

There is a lot of American genetics floating around Korea.

[PaleoEuropean]

"Legacy of war

More than 110,000 Koreans have been adopted by Americans since 1958, according to Korea Adoption Services.

Many were the product of a thriving sex industry fueled by U.S. and U.N. troops who flooded the country during the 1950-53 Korean War and remained as a deterrent after it ended in an armistice instead of a peace treaty.

Officially sanctioned prostitution was rampant in so-called camptowns outside the military bases in the 1960s and ’70s.

Katharine Moon, who has extensively studied the period for her book “Sex Among Allies,” said many of the officer clubs also allowed in prostitutes and other women to entertain the troops.

“That’s the time when the U.S. dollar was almighty,” Moon said. “It was very fast and loose … lots of irresponsible behavior by men and women.”

That left a legacy of mixed-race children who were shunned by society and often relinquished to orphanages by their mothers. The stigma was compounded by the fact that South Korean law until 1997-98 allowed only fathers to pass on citizenship, leaving “hundreds of thousands of stateless children,” said Moon, a fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution."

https://www.stripes.com/news/wanted-...korea-1.504790

[Hoihey]

"Legacy of war

More than 110,000 Koreans have been adopted by Americans since 1958, according to Korea Adoption Services.

Many were the product of a thriving sex industry fueled by U.S. and U.N. troops who flooded the country during the 1950-53 Korean War and remained as a deterrent after it ended in an armistice instead of a peace treaty.

Officially sanctioned prostitution was rampant in so-called camptowns outside the military bases in the 1960s and ’70s.

Katharine Moon, who has extensively studied the period for her book “Sex Among Allies,” said many of the officer clubs also allowed in prostitutes and other women to entertain the troops.

“That’s the time when the U.S. dollar was almighty,” Moon said. “It was very fast and loose … lots of irresponsible behavior by men and women.”

That left a legacy of mixed-race children who were shunned by society and often relinquished to orphanages by their mothers. The stigma was compounded by the fact that South Korean law until 1997-98 allowed only fathers to pass on citizenship, leaving “hundreds of thousands of stateless children,” said Moon, a fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution."

https://www.stripes.com/news/wanted-...korea-1.504790

I find it unlikely that the Korean War would have resulted in much admixture with Europeans. If there truly were that many Americans that mixed with Koreans, you would see some Koreans that were visible African, which you don’t.

[Leto]

I find it unlikely that the Korean War would have resulted in much admixture with Europeans. If there truly were that many Americans that mixed with Koreans, you would see some Koreans that were visible African, which you don’t.

Blacks were 10% of the pop in the 1950s. Almost 90% of the US was white back in the day. I'm not saying it's necessarily American admixture, I'm saying the vast majority of soldiers would have been white. Even today the US military is over 60% white, I believe.

[Samnium]

Blacks were 10% of the pop in the 1950s. Almost 90% of the US was white back in the day. I'm not saying it's necessarily American admixture, I'm saying the vast majority of soldiers would have been white. Even today the US military is over 60% white, I believe.

Also under 84 of IQ you weren't accepted back in time. So even not considering social things, the IQ "mean" of Black Americans is around 85 so that would mean that 50% of the people wouldn't be accepted, if all Black Americans wanted to go to the army.

[L3mon J3lly]

Mongols, Xiongnu, etc. They commonly had blue eyes and light hair color in the past, because many of them (such as Genghis Khan) were Caucasoid.