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Creating A New Korean Culture in Kazakhstan - Being Half Korean/Half-Kazakh
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2019
- Meet Maiya.
She's fourth generation Korean growing up in Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country and former Soviet republic, and shares with us her story of being Half-Korean Half- Kazakh. It was really interesting to hear about life in Kazakhstan and how her family is; we honestly could have talked for hours. I hope you guys enjoy this interview and can get a glimpse into the Koryo Saram culture.
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She did a good job explaining the historical connection between Korea and Kazakhstan. Many Koreans were fleeing Japanese occupational rule. Stalin forced Koreans out of Russia, many ended up in the different Stans. Many got stuck there after liberation and if they were treated well by the locals or had been there a couple of generations, that just became home. I've met a few Kazak-Koreans in Korea and they like Korea but home is still Kazakhstan
No silly. Koreans have been in/around Manchuria, both Inner and Outer Manchuria since recorded history. Proto-Koreans are from Manchuria.
I was curious on if there was anyone else who’s half Kazakh like me and i found this!!!
We're glad you found us!
@@itisusername well mongolic are also turkic, so. what are you talking about
@@itisusername up till 100 years ago most sultan had direct line from khengiz khan. you just dont acceptet it because of mongols are seen bad mongols, but the truth is mongols are branch from turkic.
@@elahgast i mean our language are different and it's not because most of our sultan where mongols wouldnt mean that the people are
@Diana Curry cap your name is so american
My Family (German/Kazakh) from Kazakhstan also knew some Koreans when growing up there.
Greetings to all half Kazakhs
I am a third-generation mixed Korean American. We came over in the First Wave, the Ilse in the early 1900s. My genetics also show a connection to Kazakhstan, which could be a combination of the Korean lineage and possibly having relatives there I don't know about who fled Korea at the turn of the last century during the Japanese Occupation.
Thanks for sharing! It's definitely an interesting history
Interesting interview. Keep up the good work! 😎🤗
Thanks for the comment! Hope you'll stay with us as we journey on :)
This interview was so interesting. I learnt much about "Kazakhstan korean" that I knew nothing about. Thank you so much.
Very intelligent girl. I like how she explains things.
at first I thought that the interviewer was Kazakh. She look like absolutly kazakh girl!
Becky's heard that before ;) Very flattering!
@@TheHalfieProjectv You are not Kazakh?
@@davis6949 No, Becky is part Korean and part White (I don't know which ethnicity)
I disagree. She looks white
Becky!!! Buen trabajo con las entrevistas!!! Good job with the interviews!! Learning everyday!! ✌🏽
I am glad that Maya was introduced by Korean culture. Great interview.
It's rare for me to comment on CZcams, but I love hearing the stories from this project! I'm American, but ethnically Half Korean & Half Turkmen. I identified closely to what Maiya said in feeling Kazakh inside, but Korean on outside. Growing up, that's very much how I felt, almost a secret, hidden identity of being Turkmen, but looking Korean (or not even being distinguished to that degree, just generalized as "Asian" to most people). My name, my upbringing, and my inner self were the only way for me to feel close to this other culture that outwardly no one ever guesses. I think it's human nature to judge or estimate who a person may be by his or her outward appearance, but if anything, being a halfie, I know keenly that one cannot ever quite know. :)
Oh how interesting! Thanks for dropping a comment and sharing so with us. It would be really nice to share a bit more of your story via our instagram channel if you're keen :) Send us a DM or email at thehalfieproject@gmail.com
Why not identify as both because that’s what you are by blood? I’m not half, but adopted and adoptees face the same problems as mixed people. Especially when it comes to racism, being left out and discrimination. We fall in between two chairs. Outwardly we may look different to what we identify as in the inside. Too many focus on the appearance; race, and ethnicity, when you can be whatever through nationality. I was born in the Philippines, but grew up and live in Norway. Because I’m not white, people always call me immigrant/refugee, until Inooen my mouth as Norwegian is my 1st language and of course I speak in fluently. Even in Norway anno 2020 people are still shocked that an “Asian” person speaks fluent Norwegian, and we have probably near 100 dialects... yes there are thise who claim you can’t identify unless you grew up in that culture, but I don’t agree. As long as you have it in your blood, you are who you are. You may not act like it, but it’s inside you from birth. Now I identify as Filipino and Norwegian. Well the Philippines where under colonial rule (Spain) for 500 years, hence the name, after a Spanish king. I identify by tribe/ethnic group, and not “Filipino” lol.
Turkmenistan ppl
are descendants of Seljuk Turk
Seljuk Turk was founded by the
descendants of Oguz Khan
Oguz Khan was Korean
Oguz Khan’s Grand Grand grandfather was Korean
his name was “”””Ulgii Sul Kahan “”
He was the Khan of Khan among
all nomad tribes of Kuri (Kori)
Dynasty
Kuri(Kori) dynasty is one of the
Old Korean kingdom stretched from Manjuria to current
North of Kapkhaz mountain
Now Korean government is hiding this history brainwashing
Our ancestors only have been living current peninsula for 5000
Years
It’s because thats what US wants our power elites to teach our children
Most Turk dynasty were founded by Oguz Khan’s descendants
Now Korean looking Oguz Khan’s
descendants all illuminated in
West and Central Asia except few
Also we Korean had moved to
far-East now
When we Korean had lived in Central and West Asia
Our Korean ancestors worshiped
“”””””Tengri “”(Dangun in current Korean term)””””
But our old term of Tengri
was close to “”Tangur or Tangol “”
After 1945,,,
USA army occupied Korean Peninsula
and they converted almost 60%
Korean ppl into Christianity
from Buddhism and Shamanism
(Which is close to Tengrism)
and 80% of Korean Power Elites
converted from Buddist to Christian after 1945 due to
American influence
Great video! Great project!
wow this was really interesting. didn't know about that overseas foundation thing, i looked it up and it's a great initiative. and maiya's experiences are so interesting, i really enjoyed the interview. im now wanting to know more about the specifics, some more concrete details or interesting anecdotes (or maybe even regular anecdotes that would be interesting to other eyes) about what being Kazakh and Korean is like, some favorite foods, favorite places, tv shows/k dramas, music, etc.
The King Sejong Institute is probably the more influential "soft power" extension.
I really learned a lot after this interview.
I like what you do, keep going!
Thanks for the encouragement! We will keep going and going on strong :) Hope you'll stay with us for the journey!
I love this interview.
Thanks for watching!
I’m so glad to have found this channel!
I'm a mother to a biracial 5-year old. I think this vlog is really a great resource for moms out there like me who can hardly find any in-depth content, such as finding your identity and all and anything related to multicultural families living in korea
Wao thats great. Maiya you really rocked the interview. Always super confident. And Becky was also really good. Btw I like the idea of interviewing Half-Koreans but may be its better to broaden the niche and includes all foreigners :)
Maiya was definitely excellent! And thank you for the kind words - we are for sure planning on opening the interviews to not just half-Koreans so stay tuned :)
Interviewer look ike kazakh girl. Maya is Korean because her father is Korean
. It is for formality, but people don't care about it.
To me interviewer looks very Korean. Kazakhs look similar to the Siberian tribes like Evenk and Yakut that look like Native Americans of Northern region in North America.
Izzy Kon Kazakhs pride themselves in supposedly looking half white. Most don’t. Most look completely Asian, but some do look mixed. They get offended when you tell them that they look like Koreans or Chinese. A lot of them think they’re better than East Asians because they have “white blood”. It’s very sad.
M Kim I am Kazakh and do not look like Evenks, Yakuts
Interviewer looks Kazakh?? No she looks combination of Korean and white but she looks 80% Korean
This was a cool interview.
Thanks for watching!
When her greatparents immigrated to Kazakhstans. Its only Korea under Japan colonial era. Most Kazakhs Korean trace their origin to North Korea.
She said Osan or Ansan, I think, but that's S. Korea a bit south of Seoul.
It's super interesting!!!
Thanks for watching!
My son is bi-cultural, Korean-American (Irish/English), but absolutely does not care. At all. Not even a little bit. 🤣🤣🤣 I think my son's response is the absolutely healthiest response I've ever heard from a "halfie." Dude is just a dude. Love it!
(No shade intended for those who have struggled with identity more.)
He is in his Junior year, raised all but 1.5 years in the US when he was a toddler. Acts completely American, but fits in perfectly with his friends, at school, etc. He had a little teasing in early elementary school, but that's it. One of his friends is also a halfie, so maybe that helped him feel less different.
So she is like Viktor Tsoi almost... Korean in Kazakhstan as a "Koryeo Saram"
NOBODY has a problem or cares about being mixed in Kazakhstan 😂 because LITERALLY E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y are mixed with more than 2 ethnicities.I don't want to sound rude but Americans seem to be more dramatic about this issue.
It has nothing to do with being dramatic? Different things are viewed differently in different cultures? What a rude thing to say -- that her entire channel/project she's devoting so much time, energy, and care into is just "being dramatic" because Kazakhstan has a mostly mixed population? Ridiculous. Saying you don't want to sound rude doesn't make it so.
@@rikkirikki4892 You're blowing things out of proportion. Talking about dramatic..
Rikki Rikki Lol not at all. Americans are obsessed about race, and ethnicity. Probably due to their complicated history as the US was founded up in colonization, slavery, genocide, invasion and illegal immigration (anyone who isn’t indigenous). The American society is built on racism. The result is on the news each and everyday. As a European I can say this with confidence, that you are obsessed far above average. And here in Europe we learn that the US is a melting pot, yet it’s actually more segregated than most people think.
Not true. Most people are not mixed with other ethnicities
Haha.. there are many Koreans in Central Asia. I knew one guy whom name is Kim but he is from Kazakhstan.
Hi Becky! I'm just curious which part of the US did you stay at when you lived there? Because your accent and how soft-spoken you are reminds me of my best friend's accent and her soft-spoken demeanor, she's from Minnesota btw. She's married to an Indonesian and they have two adorable halfie girls! 🥰
She's from southern California
Your interview skill is best!
Korean people have strong central asian influence that dates back thousands years. Kazakhs and Koreans are distant cousins to begin with.
Kazak, kirgyz, Mongolian, Korean
All their language originated from the same root
She looks more Kazakh. Her eyes.
Больше скулы, ну возможно глаза немного
Kazakh is originated from
a kingdom name “”””GoJukh (고죽 in Korean)””
GoJukh kingdom had situated
Current Central Asia
(But now they manipulated the history
teaching Gohukh kingdom had situated in
current nothern China)
the exact location varies depending on
The Korean researcher
GoJukh Kingdom was a subsidiary kingdom
of Kuri(Kori ==Gogureo==고리==고려==Guri)””
which was an ancient Korean Kingdom
Kuri(구리==코리 ==고구려)kingdom was situated from. manjuria to all the way to west Kherson Ukraine whether u believe or Not
(Of course manipulated history teaches ppl
Kuri (고구려)Kingdom was in Manjuria).
In mid 1400
a descendants of ChinghisKhan had united with
“” Gojuk descendants nomad ppl “”
and formed “””Kazakh (Gojukh==고죽)””
identity
So in ancient time
Korean and Gojukh ppl had live together
in Central Asia and current Mongolia
and Manjuria
and they were One ppl and One nation
under ONE leader called Tengri(current Korean term for Tengri is Dangun)
There were 47 Tengri in ancient Korean
History
Nowadays young Koreans mostly do not know
this history cuz they are brainwashed with fake
history manipulated by Ametican Puppets
Thank you so much ❤
I saw this Korean professor talk about how Kazakhs, and basically all of central Asia have very close ties with Korea. From what I understood from his lectures, Korea was one of the 12 "tribes" or Kingdoms that spread out from The Great Uyghur empire.
It made me believe we are at the very least cousin nations >.^
What were the other 11? Just curious.
@@blankline5215 A bit hazy on the info, but from what I remember, the eastern tribes formed the Sakha people (Siberians), the Manchurians(Jurchens), the Joseon(Koreans)-> Ainu/yayoi/Japan.
The central tribes , the Khazaks, Mongols, Tibetans. The western side- the Hungarians all the way to Celtic lands. Some interesting facts are that from UK, especially Ireland have these things called Dolmens , and the same things can be found in Korea in abundance. In Kazak they used to bury their dead in large earthen mounds, and both UK and Korea does the same. There are very eerie similarities even with thousands of miles dividing them.
@@dwolfe2907 ohhh , manchurians we’re made of tungussic tribes there before 9th centuries. I’m shatuo descendant living in Kazakh lands, my forefathers resettled several centuries ago. Since that we held the Kazakh names, culture and mindset 🙏🏻 before resettlement we had a huge mix as chuyue
@@dwolfe2907 the Ainu and yayoi are not related to any Siberian or central Asian people. Japanese are east Asian not north asian
woooahhh!!! She just made a super controversial claim in the linguistic world, she said Kazak and Korean are from the same language family, hahahahhah, oh no, hahaha. I don't know for sure from the Korean perspective because I haven't had a chance to talk with Korean linguists though I live in Korea, but in in the US, making that claim is super contentious. Most linguists in the US nowadays have come to a consensus that Korean is not a part of the Turkic language family, it was an old hypothesis that has now been debunked by modern linguists with newer research. Usually I only ever hear of the older generations that have a hard time with new findings still holding to the claim that Korean and Japanese are a part of that language family.
Yeh, I think she ment altaic group. Tho, yeh, languages are barely have any similarities. Maybe only sentence structure and some grammar.
@@amenooni4204 Dude what are you saying that their is no similarities. I know Turkish, Japanese, English and learning ancient Gokturk language & learning Korean. I have found so many similarities between the ancient Gokturk language and ancient/modern Korean with words & etymologies, root words and meanings being exact same, family names & honorifics, grammatically it is exact match.
No one is saying that Korean is part of Turkic language family, the theory is that it is part of a macro family which then broke off and each part formed their own families and that's how it works usually with any language family.
We share a common ancestor. We are from North-East Asia from millet farming. Our ancestors go back to the stone age. That is where we split where the Koreans adapted to their landscape and went the farming route while we continued the nomadic culture. I think we were traditionalists. The latest research was started in 2018 and was completed in 2020. The research focuses on ancient peoples' DNA, Language, Archeological evidence, and historical sources.
SOURCE:
Nelson, Sarah; Zhushchikhovskaya, Irina S.; Li, Tao; Hudson, Mark; Robbeets, Martine (February 2020). "Tracing population movements in ancient East Asia through the linguistics and archaeology of textile production". Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.4.
It's funny how Western scholars call similarities between our languages, culture, archeological evidence, genetics, and history as mere coincidences and borrowings. But they don't apply the same standard to themselves.
I think kazakhs and koreans can be related due to all the mixing in kazakhstan with so many different people. lots of people are Kazakhs, Turkish, Uzbek, Korean, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and etc.
Whatever u say
We Korean can learn kazhak language way faster than American or chinese
And do the same Kazakh ppl
Vice versa
Because both language
The root is same
It’s interesting 🧐 because I am mix ethnic not half but ancestors are half different cultures mom side Azerbaijan 🇦🇿/ Russia 🇷🇺/Czech Republic /Poland /Spain /Mexican .Dad side Spain 🇪🇸 Catalonian /El Salvador /Jamaican /Portugal /Philippines I am originally born in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿,but people said look like Korean but never have ethnic group Korea sometimes say to me look Vietnam 🇻🇳 and then turn cause my appearance don’t not seem Asian look my self not a lot I look like person more Is whiten Asian more cause double eyelids and natural brown hair ,brown eyes .some people wonder my ethnicities look like weird .
im mix. half human half alien
i love love love love
And we love love love your comment!
She is beautiful ❤
In Old Time
We Korean ancestor
had lived in Pamir
Highland and Central Asia and near Altai
Mountain
We Korean moved to East to seek Sun light
Originally
Korean was part of 12tribes when we had lived in Central Asia
And later it transformed into 9 tribes
And eventually
emerged to 3 kingdoms
Current Korean government do not teach
Our ancestor came from
Central Asia and Altai mountains
Because Korea now
Is being under heavy US control or influence
So our Korean government is hiding
our ancestor’s root
and restrict it into
Only Korean Peninsula
Right!
I didn't know such people existed, my apologies, and I think it's awesome too!
That’s so cool. She is technically half Korean half Turk (Central Asian Turk)
After watching this video and reading the comments... it seems like Kazakhstan seemed to have broken off from the communism soviet era mindset where everyone is suppose to be "viewed as one equally." It seems like this is the reason why many ethnic Kazakhs, and non-Kazakhs people don't care if they are mixed or not. This is why many of them do not care to seek cultural identity as much. I don't know much about Kazakhstan, but this is my guess on this issue (I know I can be wrong)... and whereas if its a country that was founded upon classes, racism, segregation or is more "homogenous" society, cultural identity tend to be more important. In this case, more like USA and other various countries.
Maya is a very cute/pretty
Wow great interview.. I like to meet her ..I sent sometime in Russia
Maya Ali is very cute!
I'm just common Korean girl and my bestie is common Kazakh girl who lives and raised in just our own countries and have never left. And here is my question : How can you speak English so well???😂😂😂 I mean none of us(me and my bestie) are not good at listening and speaking in English as native English speaker of course. (We only could freely chat by text. And we both have our own languages' accent when we speak English. But i dont feel you any of em) And according to my experience it's not natural thing that every Kazakhstan can speak English that so naturally 😂😂 so I'm just most curious about it. I don't really expect that i can get some answer from you. But anyway thank you.
Phonetically kazakh language has similar sounds like in english. For exmple letter "ө" sounds like english "ur, er, ir" or "ә" when we speak apple. Also through history even russian letters were integrated into our language(before reforms we never had sounds for "f(ф)" and "v(в)" unlike russians)
she looks Mongolian in my opinion, but love my koryoin.
We Korean are the same race
as Mogolian
Because Kazakhs are the confederation of Turkic and ancient Mongolian tribes
She looks fully Korean
Если мне скажут, что обе казашки. То я бы поверил.
Beautiful girls in the vedio💛
Красивая девушка
You are gorgeous Becky. Your my favorite halfie.
Kazakh is actually similar to Turkish since they are both Turkic languages
Please get a different background for your videos. I saw the same background in another one of your videos and it is depressing. I loved both videos but the background spoiled it.
Sorry to hear that the background took away from the real purpose of the video ~ due to schedules and limitations, we had to book two interviews on the same day and so, the same background simply came along with that. Cheers and hope you will keep enjoying even if the backdrops are occasionally unappealing^^
back looks horrible like sum rundown place
Halfies are always beautiful and physically strong! I have so many nephews and nieces which are halfies, probably 90% of all my relatives are halfies.
The interviewer seems pretty clueless and asks dumb questions
Asalamu Alaikum
Kazakhstan has become another Thailand or the Philippines.
.
So....its North Korea, from the way she goes around and round answering the question
janjanbeckham8 many ethnic koreans in china, japan, and other turkic countries in the far east came from the northern side of korea. From my experience they usually avoid answering the question in a straightforward way because they dont wanna be labeled as north koreans.
She say her ancestral from Osan. Osan are in South...
The intervier is from usa. Oppsessed with race
You are not!! Asian Corona
당신은 코로나가 아니에요!!
힘내세요
ну что тут сказать ... в 1930х - 1970х были совсем другие казахи , большинство их с пониманием и дружелюбием относились к другим нациям . но с 1990х годов казахи изменились , у них появился шовинизм и ксенофобия . стали ущемлять права неказахов. поэтому очень много неказахов уехали и уезжают поныне.
Что за бред вы несете? Все начали уезжать из-за развала и упадка экономики. Не нужно вводить в заблуждение. У нас благо все живут в мире и согласии
Konan false!!!
вообще то единств.страна из бывших стран снг,где все нации живут дружно!
Не бывает плохих наций, бывают плохие люди