Originally posted by Dr Who:
This Korean girl original surname is "HWANG" as in YELLOW ( Wong,
Ng, etc)
Ancestors probably from China
Many Koreans today find it disputable, but Korea, or Cho-sun as
known in ancient times, used to be a vassal state offering regular
tribute to China. (This probably explains why most old Korean texts
were written in Hanja or
the traditional Chinese script before the native Korean alphabet
Hangul became popular as
it is now.)
If one were to trace the genealogy of many Koreans, one wouldn't be
too surprised to find Chinese ancestry somewhere along the family
lines.
