Turkish Creation myths and Korea

there are koreans in uzbekistan, kazakistan, kyrgyzistan?

How did they come there?

Is this a potentially hateful ethnic/racial comment too Mr. Moderator.

In the immediate context there is nothing suggesting hate.  Your previous comment is blatantly obvious, however: you simply said you dislike Koreans.  You said there is something you dislike about Koreans, now you can argue that "it's not that I dislike Koreans, but something about them."  But that "something" is predicated to Koreans by implication, so in essence you were saying you dislike Koreans in parts.  But to dislike some entity (albeit collective) in part is to dislike that entity itself.

Even though you may have had genuinely bothersome experiences with your ethnic colleagues at work, I don't think this is the proper forum to vent your frustrations. Personal experiences are important in shaping  opinions but they are difficult to verify to us. Its not what this topic is about.

Ya most of the discussions on AE go astray.Don't know why.

i think the word "kara" is also used for cloudy places too.

I think you are little bit late arrived to this topic, the who did open this thread did leave and some others who knew something about this did also leave....

Welcome to AE, Hando.  You sound well traveled and genuine in curiocity.  I'm intrested to read what you can share about your experiences in different parts of the world you've lived/studied/traveled.  I hope you get as much as you can out of AE.  I personally find Gubook Jangoon very resourceful in East Asia forum.

Having said that, I have to admit I miss Jhangora and his other reincanations.  Don't get me wrong though, I do think some of his wordings were out of lines and moderators had to warn him and that just riled him up more.

But I do feel for the guy as I would for any migrant workers living/working under racism, less rights, less pays etc whether they are Central Americans in US or Muslems in Europe or an Indian in Korea.  Especially in such enthno centric country like Korea, it is not easy to find your comfort zone. 

It is an issue that Korea will face more and more as their economy and the population itself become more 'Globalized'. 

I read an article about Superbowl MVP Hines Ward visiting his motherland a couple of weeks ago.  The article mentioned growing migrant workers(mostly from SE Asia) and growing interracial marriges and births(up to 10% of new birth in a decade) in Korea.  Well, there are many Korean women who married US GIs and Korea used to be #1 orphan export country in the world(are they still?), but these are different kind of interracial marriages.  The birth rate in Korea are going down like other developed countries, but their patriatic tradition prefers sons over daughters.  So many Korean men have hard time finding brides and some of them will marry foreigners.  Koreans are also allowing half-blooded Koreans to serve in their military for the first time. 

About migrant workers in Korea; When Korea started its economic miracle it started out with 'Sweat Shops' even Hyundai or Samsung all started out of 'Textile' industry.  As their manufacturing tech developed through past decades and their labor movements and living standard improved, they have less population willing to work in sweat shop condition, they will need more migrant workforce.  Otherwise outsource.

Koreans are very proud to be a single race nation and I think it is something to be celebrated.  But as any good thing can be used in something synical, Korea's long standing tradition and pride can be used as an obsticle between Koreans and a nation growing out of them.  Migant worker issue is like another coming of age rite for any developed country with low birth rate, higher wages, living standards.  In US the issue is little different because they've been dealing with migrant workers and racism from the founding of the nation and still, but in Korea it is a new growing social issue and it will only get bigger fast.  Being a single race nation makes many Koreans naive on the issue of racism and buy into how other developed nations treat with their migrant workers.

That is why I miss Jhangora.  I wasn't even aware of such issues until I read his postings.  It was a great first hand snap shot of an Global issue, so much more refreshing than some nerds posting up what they googled.  Sure, he could've bias in his story telling but I wouldn't go quite as far as calling it an isolated incident. 

If Jhangora is still in Korea, I hope he can have better experiences being there and have deeper understanding of Koreans as they have lessons to be learned as a growing nation.

As far as Turkic creation myth and Korean one goes, I doubt that there was a massive migration of ancient nomatic Turks to Korea or vice versa, but I can see how the Mongols could have brought some Turkic/Scythian/Mongol tradition to Korea though Dangun myth was recorded before the Mongol invasion.  And the postings on Chi You were also very interesting.  Lately though, I've been intersted in Mediterrenian Dagon myth and subSaharan Dogon myth possibly connected with Dangun myth.