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Korean civil war and increased consanguinity in Koreans from 1953 till 1956; Korean migration history, sociography
Topic Started: Apr 5 2011, 12:01:00 AM (879 Views)
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do note that that there was still civil war in Korea in 1953. So back then, people from the countryside who married relatively close cousins might have done so in order to stabilise their social network in urban surroundings which might have been alien to them. That was most likely to be one aspect of their short-term survival strategy. In an economically more stable society such choices would have been avoided because they result in a decreased number of cousins. In this sense, one might feel reminded the possibility that cousins might have been considered like a potential resource which could be increased when they married non-relatives (whose ethno-cultural background is the same as their own, of course).




From 1953 till 1956 7,8% of all marriages in Seoul and 5,9% of all marriages in Cheju were between first cousins as opposed to 1,8% "in 27 other localities". Explanations of the authors: more anonymity in Seoul, more isolation in Cheju. Maternal cousins (n=39) were clearly preferred to paternal ones (n=15).

Source: Kang Yun-sun and Cho Wan-Kyoo 1959: Data on the biology of Korean populations
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