Talk:Andy Kang/@comment-33599486-20180419005742/@comment-36277500-20190122191854

Oh no, Andy is anything but Korean...

It's true that Kang (강) is Korean surname, but it's rather pronounced as "Gang", and if the authors wanted to give him Korean name, they would choose Kim or Park.

Moreover, Kang (written as 姜, 江, 康 or several other ideograms) is also Chinese surname.

For the first, facial features don't fit. Typical Asian features contain, among others: wide checkbones and small and wide nose.

Real Korean boys:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c0/9d/8f/c09d8f5137fd348af9c32ff1f9e26dc3.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fc/1f/e9/fc1fe998876bbc167ff8e22b5be08580.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b0/d1/13/b0d113df143290c83bec5a3d92c34fdf--ulzzang-boy-korean-guys-ulzzang.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/30/56/1c/30561ccb43ddf1918fa2202ae9f52ff3.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1d/c5/67/1dc5671bdb7daa34bf330f90cfbfc6ef--astro-kpop-eunwoo-astro-eunwoo.jpg

You see the difference? Korean boys have slant and big eyes, small and wide noses, delicate oval faces with wide cheekbones, typical for Asians. Andy has big, long nose, edgy triangle face and slant but small eyes...

Once I was a huge fan of Asian horror, especially J-horror and K-horror, so I used to know how to distinguish Japanese or Korean by their features: eyes, eyelids, eyebrows, lips, face shape, adiposal tissue layout, and in girls also: haircut and makeup.

However, it's hard for Chinese, because during centuries, while Korea and especially Japan were rather secluded, China was always a huge country with many borders, which inhabitants happened to mix with other nations. It resulted in huge variety of facial features in Chinese. I've seen several Chinese actors/actresses who apparently must have had some White acestors, while others were similar to Mongolians, Japanese, Korean or Thai people.

It's very hard to recognize from digitally created face, but I'd say that Andy's family originate from Northern China, some of his great-ancestors might have been Mongolians (eyes), some other were White (long nose!).