The Ten Thousand Kims

Details The Ten Thousand Kims The Ten Thousand Kims

2011-09-28

arxiv.org/abs/1109.6221v1

New J. Phys. 13, 073036 (2011)

Physics

Physics and Society

13 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/13/7/073036

In the Korean culture the family members are recorded in special family books. This makes it possible to follow the distribution of Korean family names far back in history. It is here shown that these name distributions are well described by a simple null model, the random group formation (RGF) model. This model makes it possible to predict how the name distributions change and these predictions are shown to be borne out. In particular, the RGF model predicts that, for married women entering a collection of family books in a certain year, the occurrence of the most common family name "Kim" should be directly proportional the total number of married women with the same proportionality constant for all the years. This prediction is also borne out to high degree. We speculate that it reflects some inherent social stability in the Korean culture. In addition, we obtain an estimate of the total population of the Korean culture down to year 500 AD, based on the RGF model and find about ten thousand Kims.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

The Ten Thousand Kims does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with The Ten Thousand Kims, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and The Ten Thousand Kims will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-43793