Korean ancestry

Hanbok culture lineage

Korean ancestry refers to family descent from Korea or Korean people.

The phrase appears in demographic contexts, government forms, and discussions of ethnic identity: Americans of Korean ancestry, She traced her Korean ancestry back five generations.

It encompasses people whose forebears came from either North or South Korea, or from Korea before its division.

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Opposites
east asian ethnic heritage

Korean ancestryJapanese heritage

Ancestry from Japan

Chinese heritage

global ancestral origin

Korean ancestryEuropean ancestry

Lineage from that continent

African ancestry · Native American heritage

Family

ancestor, ancestry, Korean, Korea

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