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[Tiger Beer]

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Chinatowns-in-Asia

[Yesterday]

exactly - KoreaN PEOPLE think they are a homogenuos race - Chinatown - means assortment of china products - exactly what Korean is....

seoul (korea) IS kOREAN PEOPLE who were mixed in with many other races (Japan, Mongolia, China, India, and other south-east asia people throughout the many previous centuries)... hence the different skin colors yellow, pale white, brown Korean people.....

Ask any Korean person why different Korean people have different skin colors and they will tell you "Actually, I have never noticed that, we don't think about that kind of thing.....)

because the textbooks tell them all korean people are the same with black hair, black eyes and yellow skin.......

(Science has proved as a fact that features such as hair-between -the-eyebrows, hair in front of the knuckles (hand) on the 2nd, 3rd fingers, body hair, skin color etc etc - is only different on people from different ethnic backgrounds)...... therefore - Korean people are really an assortment of chinese-mixed backgrounds.....

[uberscheisse]

i made a comment about a tall, hardy looking lad to my korean friend, commented on his possible manchurian background and i've never seen anyone more insulted.

[mithridates]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[mithridates]

Ha. Read it in a Korean paper, published by a Korean research institute.

[joe_doufu]

[tzechuk]

The Chinese Character for Seoul USED TO BE this: ����. This strictly means *Han City*. Han being the Han Dynasty or what the majority of Chinese people are these days.

I say used to be because they very recently changed it to this:

���.

This sounds like Seoul in both Mandarin and Cantonese and literally means capital.

[KiteOperations]

mistranslated by the lack of knowledges.

�� refers to the big waters that means the han river, not the Hans being the major ethnic group of Chinese these days. so, this old Seoul's name ���� means the city by the han river, not China town.

[tzechuk]

[jaganath69]

What is the literal meaning of Seoul in Korean. Is it derived from Seo meaning west?

[tzechuk]

No. Seoul is a pure Korean word meaning capital.

[visviva]

The name Hanseong is much older than 1300, and is used in the *Samguk sagi* to refer to the capital of Baekje (in or near modern-day Seoul) in the early Common Era. It obviously derives from the river (which uses the same hanja) but the real question is why is the river called Han?

The going nationalist explanation is that the name is a transliteration of the Old Korean word for "big"... but it certainly is a strange coincidence that out of all the Chinese characters sharing that pronunciation, the one for the Han Dynasty was chosen... especially since Daebang, the longest-surviving of the Han Dynasty commanderies, was (probably) located in the Han River valley.

[Kenny Kimchee]

[joe_doufu]