What age do Koreans stop growing?

At 17 to 18 years, the height is attained to that of the adult size with a 35% range of 170 to 175 cm and a 30% distribution of 175 to 180 cm. Comparison of height distribution from different age groups. Data are divided into three zones corresponding to different height types of Korean 13- to 18-year-old males.
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How tall is the average 16 year old Korean?

South Korean high school students are among the tallest in Asia, with male students aged 16 years old averaging 173.9 cm and female students averaging 161.5 cm in 2021.
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What is average Korean height?

According to the results of the eighth Size Korea body index survey, adult Korean men had an average height of 172.5 cm, and adult Korean women had an average height of 159.6 cm — around 5 feet 8 inches and 5 feet 3 inches, respectively.
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What is the average weight for a 12 year old in Korea?

In 2021, the average male middle school student in South Korea weighed 63.7 kilograms, while the average female student weight 53.6 kilograms.
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What is the weight limit in Korea?

The maximum weight permitted for a container including tare and cargo weight is 21 kilo tons per 20' container and 25 kilo tons per 40' / 45' container. This is applicable to all container types including refrigerated containers.
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Why have South Koreans grown taller over the past 40 years?



What is considered underweight in Korea?

The present study was performed to investigate the association between underweight severity and the development of fracture in a nationwide general population in Korea. Underweight was subdivided into mild (17.5 ≤ BMI < 18.5), moderate (16.5 ≤ BMI < 17.5), and severe underweight (BMI < 16.5).
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What race is the tallest?

Latvian women are the tallest on the planet, with an average height of 170cm. * The top four tallest countries for men are the Netherlands, Belgium, Estonia and Latvia. The top four tallest countries for women are Latvia, the Netherlands, Estonia and the Czech Republic.
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What race is Korean?

Koreans, along with Japanese and Tungusic speakers are generally considered a Northeast Asian group. The mitochondrial DNA markers (mtDNA haplogroups and HVR-I sequences) of Korean populations showed close relationships with Manchurians, Japanese, Mongolians and northern Han Chinese but not with Southern East Asians.
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Who are taller Japanese or Korean?

In East Asia, South Korean and Chinese men are now taller than Japanese men. Adults in the South Asian countries of Bangladesh and India have heights that are plateauing, at about 2 to 4 inches (5 cm to 10 cm) shorter than adults in Japan and South Korea.
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How tall are Korean girls usually?

According to the results of the eighth Size Korea body index survey, adult Korean men had an average height of 172.5 cm, and adult Korean women had an average height of 159.6 cm — around 5 feet 8 inches and 5 feet 3 inches, respectively.
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How tall are Korean kids?

In 2021, the female elementary student population aged ten years old was 147.7 centimeters on average. The recorded heights for female students was consistently taller than that of the male students, whose average height that year amounted to 146.8 centimeters.
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What is the normal height of Korean girl?

According to the survey results, the average height of Koreans was 172.5 cm (5'8") for men and 159.6 cm (5'3") for women.
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What country has the tallest people?

It is, perhaps, with just a hint of satisfaction that the Dutch office for national statistics has confirmed that the men and women of the Netherlands remain the tallest people on the planet.
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What is the average height in USA?

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the average age-adjusted height for American men 20 years and older is is 69.1 inches (175.4 cm), or 5 feet 9 inches tall, and the average height of an American female over 20 years of age is 63.5 inches (161.5 cm), or 5' 3.5" tall.
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Who are Koreans genetically closest to?

Both analyses demonstrated genetic evidence of the origin of Koreans from the central Asian Mongolians. Further, the Koreans are more closely related to the Japanese and quite distant from the Chinese.
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What is a good girl Korean name?

Popular Korean Girl Names
  • I-Jun 이준 This common Korean girl name means ruler, talented, handsome in Korean.
  • Seo-Jun 서준 This name means “auspicious” and “handsome” in Korean.
  • Su-Ho 수호 This name in Korean means guardian.
  • Yu-Jun 유준 ...
  • Ye-jun 예준 ...
  • Ji-Ho 지호 ...
  • Eun-U 은우 ...
  • Si-U 시우
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What religion are Korean people?

According to Pew Research Center (2010), about 46% of the population have no religious affiliation, 23% are Buddhist and 29% are Christians. According to 2015 national census, 56.1% are irreligious, Protestantism represents (19.7%) of the total population, Korean Buddhism (15.5%), and Catholicism (7.9%).
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What's the shortest ethnicity?

The shortest tribe are the Mbutsi people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with an average height of 1.37 m (4 ft 6 in) for men and 1.35 m (4 ft 5 in) for women, with some groups averaging only 1.32 m (4 ft 4 in) for men and 1.24 m (4 ft 1 in) for women.
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What is the smallest race in the world?

With a population that hovers around 2,000, the Toto are today considered one of the world's smallest ethnic groups, and, like their fellow Indigenous peoples from the Amazon to Australia, are experiencing the consequences of extractive industries.
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What is obese in Korea?

Obesity classes were defined using the 2020 KSSO Obesity Treatment Guideline as follows, class I obesity, BMI 25.0–29.9 kg/m2; class II obesity, 30.0–34.9 kg/m2; class III obesity, ≥35.0 kg/m2. Abdominal obesity was defined as a WC ≥90 cm in men and ≥85 cm in women according to the KSSO definition. 11.
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What weight is normal for Korean girl?

For women, you must be below 50kg. Nowadays people now use this calculation: height in cm - 115 = good weight (in kg). Dancers and those on the slim side of modelling must have weights (in kg) that are their height's in cm - 120.
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