Re: Fwd (from Conculture): Accepted Crimes

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

>On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 12:37:44AM +0100, Kristian Jensen wrote:
>> > OK... since no one reacted to this in Conculture, then I must assume
>> > there are no Koreans in that list. I'm therefore forwarding this message
>> > here in CONLANG. Yooohooo! Koreans!!! ;)
>> [snip]
>>
>> * /me expects a loooong juicy post from YHL ;-) *
>
>Eh?  What post was this?  Grad school applications have been putting me
>out of action.  Any chance you could forward the message to me off-list?
>I'd like to take a look at it.  :-p
>
>YHL, token Korean(-American)

I take it you're not in the Conculture mailing-list then... however,
I already forwarded the message to Conlang-L, but it seems you always
miss my posts and Teoh has conveniently snipped it above... Oh well,
here it is again (and I hope you're not too busy to have a look at it
this time).: 8)

I wrote:
>OK... since no one reacted to this in Conculture, then I must assume
>there are no Koreans in that list. I'm therefore forwarding this message
>here in CONLANG. Yooohooo! Koreans!!! ;)
>
>Brad Coon wrote:
>>Kristian Jensen wrote:
>>ans...
>>>
>>> Something that has always bugged me about the Boreanesian
>>> kinship/marriage system is its viability in a large population. The are
>>> no precedents in the real world where moieties exist in a society with
>>> quite a large population. I have this creepy feeling that there are bound
>>> to be many Boreanesians that will commit incest as dictated by the
>>
>>Aacckkk, stepping in where my ignorance will show, I believe that
>>Korea has this problem.  Something I vaguely recall from a newspaper
>>article (and we all know  that newspapers are always correct) is that
>>there are a limited number of clan (?) names in Korea and one is not
>>allowed to marry within one's own.  Not sure where to tell you to
>>look for more information but I seem to recall that either conculture
>>or conlang has Korean members who can surely tell you more than I.
>>
>>--
>>Brad Coon
I'm wondering if the article Brad Coon had read is true. Are there
limited clan names in Korea, and are they exogamous (i.e., one is not
allowed to marry one from the same clan)? If they are exogamous, are
there problems of interclan incest (i.e., people DO marry others from
the same clan despite the rules of exogamy)? If so, how is it delt
with? I'm asking because it seems that the Boreanesians might be
experiencing a similar problem with intermoietal incest, and I'm
curious as to how real world cultures deal with the problem (if it is
a problem).

THANKS in advance!
-kristian- 8)