Interesting. (And you're right, most Koreans won't consider her as Korean, which is probably the right judgement but it feels like neither nation is willing to

Interesting. (And you're right, most Koreans won't consider her as Korean, which is probably the right judgement but it feels like neither nation is willing to claim her as their own, which is kinda screwed up.) Now that Korea is mentioned... until 2008 Korea used to have that "koseki" thing (called "hojeok" in Korea, with the same Chinese characters, I believe). At least it wasn't used to discriminate against ethnic minorities (largely because Korea didn't have any ethnic minorities who had lived for generations, other than a handful of Chinese immigrants, who were discriminated anyway, but I digress). What it was used for was to bind people in patriarchal Confucian ideology and make life miserable for some people. E.g., if a woman has a child, divorces but keeps custody of the child, and marries again, she couldn't change the child's family name to that of her new husband, because paternal ancestry is fucking important. So now her child must grow up being asked by everybody "Wait, why is your surname different from your dad?" That kind of thing. And there were people who would defend this kind of idiocy. So glad we finally got rid of that.