Who are the ancestors of Koreans?

South Korea's Chosun Ilbo reported that Wook Kim, a professor of biology at Tankook University in South Korea, recently suggested that the ancestors of Koreans were "farmers in the Central Plains of China" because from the genetic point of view, Koreans are close to the Han nationality and Japanese in China. This new statement about Korean ancestors overturns the most popular statement that Korean ancestors came from Mongolia.

Professor Wook Kim said: "We analyzed the mitochondrial DNA base sequences of 185 unrelated Koreans by anthropological systematic classification. The results showed that the base sequences of four Koreans in 10 were similar to those of farmers in the Central Plains of China. "

According to this result, Professor Wook Kim proposed: "The ancestors of our nation are farmers in the Central Plains. Genetically, Koreans are closer to the Han and Japanese in China than the Mongols now. "

Wook Kim also pointed out that the fact that the base sequences of Koreans and Japanese are close indicates that the Yayoi people who settled in the Japanese archipelago 2,300 years ago probably came from the Korean peninsula. This statement is basically consistent with the view put forward by Professor Guiyang Inoue from the Medical College of Japan Bird Rights University in 2003. Inoue believes: "In the 5th and 4th centuries BC, the base sequence of ancient Japanese was close to that of Koreans."

Previously, Korean academic circles generally believed that the ancestors of the Korean nation were Mongolians in northern Asia, which was the so-called "single origin theory in the north".

Studies have shown that the ancestors of the Japanese may have come from the Korean peninsula.

De Yongsheng, a professor of human genetics at the School of Medicine of the University of Tokyo in Japan, recently said: "Recently, based on genome research, we compared the HLA genes in chromosome 6 of many ethnic groups in East Asia, and concluded that the closest group to the Japanese is the residents of the Korean Peninsula and Koreans living in China." The results of this study show that the ancestors of Japanese living in Japan are foreigners who migrated here through the Korean Peninsula.

This research content will be included in the "Summary of Public Lectures" to be published by a publishing house in Tokyo in July. De Yongsheng said that according to HLA classification, Japanese, Korean, Han, Manchu, Korean, Mongolian and other 12 ethnic groups in East Asia were compared and analyzed, and the Japanese natives were closer to the residents living on the Korean peninsula and the Korean residents in China than Okinawa or Ainu in Hokkaido.

This research strongly proves the popular saying that ancestors who migrated from the Korean peninsula accounted for the largest proportion in the Japanese population composition during the Yayoi period.

This study uses relics or human bones to study blood group distribution. It has always been considered to have considerable limitations, so this study using recent genome research results was evaluated as the final version of the "origin theory".

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