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 more typical, like: Kim or Park.

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

Once I was a huge fan of Asian horror, especially J-horror and K-horror, so I happen to recognize Japanese or Korean by their features: eyes, eyelids, eyebrows, lips color and shape, face shape, adiposal tissue layout, and in girls also: haircut and makeup... According to these, Andy's definitely neither Korean, nor Japanese.

For the first, facial features don't fit. 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 differences? Korean boys have slant but big eyes, small and wide noses, delicate oval faces with wide cheekbones, typical for Asians. They also have full, rosy lips, quite often in young Koreans. While Andy has long nose, edgy face, narrow and pale lips, and slant but small eyes...

(There is a huge oversight of authors: Andy as a child had big eyes, and as a teenager he has small eyes. Eyes are probably the only facial feature not changing its shape during lifetime. Usually, big-eyed kids become big-eyed adults... unless they become very obese. Andy isn't fat, so how did his eyes shrink?)

Also: these boys actually do look like quite feminine. Andy does not even a bit! I would never mistook him as a woman, while I might did such mistake in boys on the photos.

While I often manage to recognize Japanese and Korean, it's hard for me to do the same with Chinese people, 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 and even races. 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 - according to Andy's facial features - I'd say that his family originates from Northern China. And some of his great-ancestors might have been Mongolian (very narrow eyes), he also had some White ancestor for sure (big, long nose!).

I'm not a racist, just a retired J-horror and K-horror lover.