How South Koreans got so much taller

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Humans have gotten a lot taller in the past 100 years - and South Korea shows us why
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A century ago, humans were quite short. For example, the average South Korean woman was about 4-foot-7, or 142 centimeters, while the average American woman was about 5-foot-2, or 159 centimeters. Humans were fairly short by today’s standards, and that was true throughout nearly all of human history.
But in the past century, human heights have skyrocketed. Globally, humans grew about 3 inches on average, but in South Korea, women grew an astounding 8 inches and men grew 6 inches.
South Korea is a unique example. In the early part of the 20th century, South Korea was a poor and hungry country. But drastic economic growth fueled improved living conditions.
For example, in 1961 the country’s food supply was about 2,100 calories per person; by 2013, each person had about 1,200 additional calories available, according to data from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. UN data also shows that in 1950, about 20 percent of South Korean infants died before age 1, but now it’s about 0.2 percent.
However, South Korea’s improved living conditions are a harsh contrast to North Korea. For half of the 20th century, the south and north were one country. Heights in those two regions were nearly identical. So what happened to human height in North Korea after an authoritarian regime took over and closed off its borders?
More reading:
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, by economist Gregory Clark, beautifully connects economic conditions to human living conditions: www.amazon.com/Farewell-Alms-...
This Scientific American article by molecular biologist Chao-Qiang Lai breaks down the research on how much of human height can be attributed to genetics and how much is environmental: www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization has some of my favorite data sets. Understanding what humans eat - and how that’s changed over time - gives us insights into everything from economics to biodiversity: www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/...
There are many data sets on human heights over time, but the one I used in this video is from the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration: ncdrisc.org/
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@secularsekai8910 Год назад

In one word: Nutrition

@VyniSxHD Год назад

In one word: Starvation.

@thereisnothingthere Год назад

And genetics,

@Bugneedfix Год назад

In North Korea: Sanctions.

@chingfool-no-matter Год назад

G.I

@RavagHer Год назад

nutrition isnt gonna make u 7ft if both ur parent and grandparents are around 5ft 6in

@BryanLee Год назад

As a 6'0" Korean American raised in the middle class, and the son of 5'5" Korean parents raised in war-torn conditions, I feel this.

@tiacho2893 Год назад

My parents grew up knowing food insecurity (they sometimes still act like it living in Canada). They are going to visit Korea next month. Their birth country was one of scarcity and is now the country where you can get a bowl of jajangmyeon delivered to your door in under 30 minutes and beef (previously only for special occasions) is now just normal.

@SamaelMoneyStein Год назад

You only got that way because of the steroids and hormones in our food America democracy amirite

@mrwong8584 Год назад

@@SamaelMoneyStein

@parufy Год назад

@@mrwong8584 pretty sure they were being profusely sarcastic

@CatcherOfBass Год назад

Same

@jjn6914 Год назад

I recall reading a historical text where Koreans were referred to as the "tall Northerners" by the Japanese. So, it seems historically Koreans were relatively tall compared to neighboring populations, and the shorter stature may be attributed to modern wartime conflict, trauma, and malnutrition starting in the late 19th to late 20th centuries.

@Kim-tb9wu Год назад

And historically, Koreans called Japanese “short guys” (왜). When Japan invaded in 16th century, Korean navy soldiers called Japanese soldiers “small people”

@strugglinggamerzone3399 Год назад

@@Kim-tb9wu what's the height difference between average Korean & Japanese men ?

@Bonedagi Год назад

@@strugglinggamerzone3399 a little less than 1 inch and 3/4 or about 4 cm

@strugglinggamerzone3399 Год назад

@@Bonedagi Thanks but 4cm is more than 1 inch 💫.

@altitude4020 Год назад

@@strugglinggamerzone3399 Went all around Asia last year. Korea felt the same as America to me when I went while I felt tall in other countries. I'm 5'11 for reference.

@LiahYoo Год назад

Really appreciate the mix of medias to present the data!

@Lumiobyte Год назад

@Zaydan Alfariz fax

@RollerBladingSuxs Год назад

The data is flawed since most wear shoe lifts.

@adrianoribeiro1449 Год назад

Amazing production.

@Sarah-lx6kr Год назад

@Zaydan Alfariz 😊 oh

@andymoran8367 Год назад

Their delivery of the y axis adjustment at 0:52 was so cheeky

@lifthras11r Год назад

Fun fact: South Korean military conscription means that we have a very thorough data about men's height distribution among others. The average draft was 172.0 cm (5' 7.7") tall in 2000 and 174.0 cm (5' 8.5") tall in 2020.

@user-rh6ru5oz2o Год назад

You made a 6 minute video just to say nutrition is associated with growth?

@Scourgeoftengri Год назад

@@user-rh6ru5oz2o that they did. Hip hip hooray

@GameFuMaster Год назад

@@user-rh6ru5oz2o yeah, I was like "food", before I even watched it. But the data presented was interesting

@barryallen871 Год назад

@@user-rh6ru5oz2oThis person you are replying to, made this video??

@barryallen871 Год назад

That fact isn't fun at all.

@intreoo Год назад

What’s fascinating is that you can still see the effects of this in modern South Korea. Some subway cars in South Korea were produced in the 1980s and are still in operation today, but the seats are rather small and tight for modern South Koreans. The growth of South Koreans physically over the decades meant that South Koreans also outgrew most infrastructure built around that specific time.

@aprilm9551 Год назад

That is fascinating. And I'm learning as much from the comments as from the original video. : )

@dxcSOUL Год назад

Great insight!

@gianmarco21lp Год назад

It’s everything interesting. But, well… sometimes being too big is not that good, it seems, hehe

@simpleidindeed Год назад

I usually don't sit and just keep standing in subway.

@jakesmithdigital Год назад

If you look at the latest Statista study of South Korean males. They are 5ft8 average and have gotten shorter for the last 3 generations...

@maplesams5692 Год назад

As a Korean Canadian who immigrated at the age of 4, I can confirm my dad’s dad was 166 cm, my dad is 173 cm and me being raised in a privileged environment, I’m 184cm (6’0”). Its really cool to see the increase in height down the generation.

@ByGriPhone Год назад

184 cm is 6 feet, not 6'1

@ukashk1071 Год назад

@@ByGriPhone 6 feet is 183cms

@sbellaharris Год назад

let's come back here and report your kids' height in 20 years

@techboy8330 Год назад

@@ByGriPhone bro 184 cm is 0.5 inches more than 6'0"

@maplesams5692 Год назад

Sorry didn’t bother looking up conversions from metric to imperial 💁🏻‍♂️

@jrpotter9659 Год назад

When I lived in South Korea I was surprised at how tall they were. I had spent the two years prior in Japan and couldn't help but notice how much shorter they were on average than Americans and kind of expected South Korea to be similar. Boy was I wrong!

@ukashk1071 Год назад

Lol

@ganganbam Год назад

@@Jurk844Japan is very much more muscular than Korea instead. That is the effect of mixing with Jomon people.

@rockugotcha Год назад

@JuriK Really? Jomon guy looks strong and has a thick beard.

@brutallyhonest3529 Год назад

@@ganganbam I a Korean women are bulkier than a frail Japanese man 😅

@realAlexChoi Год назад

@JuriK Koreans and Japanese both seem to be around the same skinniness on average from my experience, with Koreans being a couple inches taller.

@EnnuinerDog Год назад

I lived in South Korea for quite awhile and it's something you notice right away. Old people are short and hunched over and many have thinning hair due to malnutrition early in their lives. Meanwhile, it's not strange for junior high school boys to be over 5'10.

@techboy8330 Год назад

over 5'10" what's the avg height according to you?

@EnnuinerDog Год назад

@@techboy8330 5'9" or 5'10" (in Canada anyway) but these were boys in grade 7-9 so they would be taller by high school. Meanwhile most older men in Korea are much shorter than that. The gap is really noticeable.

@maynardlim7812 Год назад

@@EnnuinerDog it holds true in Hong Kong as well. Young teenagers these days are around 5-10 already.

@jasons5916 Год назад

It's similar in Japan. The young people are much taller on average than the older population.

@leigh7507 Год назад

tbf the young ones will have thinning hair in their 60s unless they get a hair tranplsnt or wear a wig

@mistyblue2917 Год назад

I can send this to my parents, who never stop marvelling at how "giant" the younger generations are these days, every time they visit Korea 😊

@jakesmithdigital Год назад

If you look at the latest Statista study of South Korean males. They are 5ft8 average and have gotten shorter for the last 3 generations...

@mistyblue2917 Год назад

@@jakesmithdigital that's strange.. bc every time we visit and see many, many ppl in the streets and subways, the younger generations are getting remarkably taller in general.. both males and females.

@mistyblue2917 Год назад

@@jakesmithdigital and they definitely have not been getting * shorter* for the last 3 generations.. photographic evidence from around the world including Korea show that people were generally much shorter in the 1800s and early-1900s.. i thought this was common knowledge

@mistyblue2917 Год назад

@@jakesmithdigital Furthermore, the purported average height of 5'8 that you mentioned instantly sounded off to me, based on what I've personally witnessed w my own peepers. 5'8 average would be plausible for 2 or even 1 generation back, but i was in Seoul last year for 5 months and saw plenty of young Koreans in the city everyday, who easily hit or surpassed 6' (males)', which would certainly bring up the average compared to the past 3 generations.. and also even saw a good number of females who were in the 5'8 - 5'10 range, last year. I occasionally also saw extremely tall young women who were easily 6' and built like wrestlers, which always surprised me as i literally never saw any women like that in Korea even only 10 years back. However, just like how tall ppl like Abraham Lincoln existed even in the 1800s when ppl were generally shorter than today, even in my own family, my maternal grandmother/aunt/cousins are very tall, and my paternal grandmother and aunt are also tall. Both my grandmothers were born in the 1930s.

@mistyblue2917 Год назад

@Jake Smith I searched Statista and the auto-fill suggestions were along the lines of questioning Sta.tista's credibility.. the second result was a fact-checking site that states: "Sta.tista's policies undermine the integrity of research and data and contribute to the flood of bad statistics and dubious surveys you read in the media." So... yeah.

@oceanstaiga5928 Год назад

As someone who was very sick and in hospital during my first years of puberty I didn’t grow near as tall as my brother and am shorter than both parents. I always assume it was because my body was busy with other things than growing. It’s very interesting to see how external factors impact height like this. Especially nutrition.

@empressmarowynn Год назад

I grew up with a set of twins and while in middle school one got severe appendicitis. It got so badly infected that he was in and out of the hospital for two years. He was healthy again by age 15. But as a result once they reached their early 20's the one was several inches shorter and much thinner. You can tell they're brothers but no one knows they're twins anymore whereas previously it was almost impossible to tell them apart. Nutrition and health can have a huge effect.

@sumayyahadetunmbi4347 Год назад

yeah

@HinataPlusle Год назад

@@empressmarowynn I knew a set of twins, one of which got their amygdala removed. Before that, they were virtually indistinguishable by looks, but after that the one that got it became a bit taller and gained a ton of weight. He also ended up balding much earlier than the other. Unfortunately, he passed away due to COVID-19 (certainly in no small part due to said extra weight), so we'll never really know where life would take each of them, but how such a seemingly minor intervention made them with major differences was and still is impressive.

@JMBBrasil Год назад

Same thing happened to me

@slimshadychristopher Год назад

The use of different medium, presentation, editing, production you guys do is phenomenal. It's like it's made to be as sleek as possible yet fully digestible by the viewer. Bravo.

@JoeyXSmith Год назад

The same thing happened in England. If go to old village that still has it old tutor houses/cottages in the village. You see how small the doors used to be.

@alberthusby113 Год назад

Same in norway. I went to an airbnb which was in an 1800s cottage. door went to my shoulders haha

@JohnnyWishbone85 Год назад

There's definitely an element of height, but don't forget there was no building code and people wanted to save on materials.

@alberthusby113 Год назад

@@JohnnyWishbone85 ah yeah fair.

@bookllama8158 Год назад

Tudor

@NaviRyan Год назад

I went to Italy average Canadian height 5.9’ and was shocked that the Roman coliseum stairs were so shorts/ warped. While a lot of older Italians only made it up to my chest.

@rudcjftnrh1 Год назад

As a South Korean, this video is very touching. In fact, if you're a young adult born in the 1980s or 1990s, you'll generally feel taller than your parents. My father was born in 1959, belongs to the baby boomer generation and is 167 centimeters tall, which was not very short at the time and was close to the average. On the other hand, I, born in 1980s, a little above the average, and I don't feel too big for myself, but nevertheless, when I go to places with many seniors, I can feel a clear difference in height and feel like I've become a Gulliver in a small country. Born in the 1930s-1940s, who experienced colonial times and civil war with North Korea, the grandparents' generation is much smaller, with women less than 150 cm and men less than 160 cm. Among the many countries in the world, few countries have as big a gap in physical/mental/cultural as Korea. In Korea, the younger you are, the bigger you are, the higher the education level, and the more sophisticated you are. On the contrary, the older you are, the smaller you are, the lower your education level, and the more anachronistic you are. For young people in Korea, the elderly are 'people who are smaller than me in every way'. The colonial experience (first half of the 20th century), the disastrous civil war (1940s-1950s), rapid economic growth (1960s-1970s), the democratic revolution (1980s), and the restructuring of semiconductor and Internet-oriented industries (1990s-2000s) put the country on the cutting edge of world technology, which remained traditional East Asian agricultural society until just 100 years ago. This led to a significant generation gap, both materially and mentally. You can enjoy K-pop and high-technology postmodern dystopia in Korea, but at the same time, you can also experience feudal dystopia, reminiscent of Louis XIV or Victorian times in Europe.

@Raazaaaaa Год назад

A comment this long needs a short video of its own 😝

@barryallen871 Год назад

@@soehraab_zierofaaksyet you wasted your time making this reply, and most likely read the other replies for "inspiration". 🤦 Maybe you should read more.

@probablynot1368 Год назад

I enjoyed the lengthy comment; very educational.

@prestok Год назад

Thanks for taking the time to write this comment, it was very instructional. Ignore people telling you off.

@MM-jf1me Год назад

Very insightful comment. It saddens me to read that younger people consider their elders "smaller than them in every way" as when I was watching this video I kept thinking how amazingly grateful I would be to my elders were I a younger South Korean: the previous generations worked so hard to build up the economy and infrastructure that South Korea has today to enable such quick prosperity. On the other side of the coin, your comment reminded me how as each generation becomes better educated, it's very easy for us to see our elders as ignorant and perhaps grow a bit disdainful of their ignorance. It seems natural to appreciate the older generations while also finding them very annoying on a personal, everyday level.

@evelynlgy Год назад

I cried after watching this video. It makes me feel so privileged and blessed to be living in a place where i have good access to sanitation and healthy food. My mom used to tell me that when she was a child, it wasn’t easy to get food and sometimes she would feel hungry, especially in school. Thank you for sharing this video.

@jakesmithdigital Год назад

If you look at the latest Statista study of South Korean males. They are 5ft8 average and have gotten shorter for the last 3 generations...

@YKDDS91 Год назад

And it's continuing. I'm a South Korean man whow as born in 1989. I am 6'1-ish (186cm). I was usually in the tallest top few people in my entire class. I visited Korea for the first time in 10 years last year and man, the new generation of kids are even taller, I didn't even stand out.

@kawazaki23 Год назад

I am from Somalia born in the Netherlands I am 1.90 cm without shoes and I still see people taller then me I wonder how tall someone has to be to be seen has giant I hope to grow more inshallah

@jakesmithdigital Год назад

If you look at the latest Statista study of South Korean males. They are 5ft8 average and have gotten shorter for the last 3 generations...

@oceanrocks 6 месяцев назад

@@jakesmithdigitalKorean Americans tend to be taller

@HH-kg4fq 4 месяца назад

I noticed that, too.

@RickJaeger 3 месяца назад

@@kawazaki23At 1.90 cm, it's no wonder, lol

@hafizuddinmohdlowhim8426 4 месяца назад

So by genetic South Korean is already tall but due to war time, they were shorter and now they are getting taller again. Genetic is interesting.

@user-jd7wl9ns6l 8 месяцев назад

1. Genetic 2. Nutrition 3. Whether That's it. Don't need jealous.

@ganmerlad Год назад

I know the answer to this without watching. It's "food". I went through this in real time in Ireland. I moved there in the early 90's, and most people were quite short (compared to what I was used to as an American), and old people were particularly short. I could always find my 6'4" husband in a large crowd just glancing around, he was always the tallest one there. 10 years later, I couldn't find him anymore just by swiveling my head...there were too many tall people in the way. Everyone shot up in height because diets had radically changed.

@nikolstirland6599 Год назад

I went to Panmunjeom on the border between North/South Korea a few years ago and was interested to see the obvious difference in height between the North and South Korean soldiers.

@joyofsinging3135 2 месяца назад

In 1930s, the Japanese government carried out a survey of people’s height by provinces nationwide. At that time, the Korean Peninsula was occupied by the Japanese, so the Koreans’ heights were surveyed, too. At that time, the average height in Hamgyongbukdo (North Korea) was the tallest and Choongchungnamdo (South Korea) was the shortest in the Korean Peninsula, and Choonchungnamdo’s average height was 3 centimeter higher than that of the tallest Provence in Japanese archipelago. But after the Korean War, Japanese average height became taller than Koreans, and this situation continued until the 70’s. Currently, South Koreans’ average height is the tallest in East Asia, and North Koreans’ the shortest.

@ajvisser3922 3 месяца назад

Im a 175cm tall western guy, traveled south east asia and asia quite a lot and felt tall all over SEA and japan but short in korea, there are more than obvious stature differences there.

@yuchan063 Год назад

In the records of the Joseon Dynasty (15c-19c), it was always recorded that the northern part of Korea was taller. If North Korea's nutritional situation improves, they will grow taller than South Koreans.

@golbinnom Год назад

What a shame I would probably not get to witness this happen in my lifetime

@caseinnitrate32 9 месяцев назад

I'm curious to know if South Koreans are still getting taller because from some of the comments here about Middle Schoolers, I feel like they still are

@user-wd2ln6dk1x 9 месяцев назад

@@caseinnitrate32 네 한국에서는 군대에가기전 신체검사를 하는데 22년 최근자료에는 174.1로 계속커지고있습니다

@user-hq3ht2hp6x 4 месяца назад

Because North Korea has more genes from the North Chinese and Goguryeo people, while South Korea has more genes similar to the Japanese. North China is the highest region in East Asia. Because North China is not an independent country that South Korea becomes the highest country in East Asia.😅

@tatjana7008 3 месяца назад

@@user-hq3ht2hp6x I did 23andme, no Chinese / Korean genes in my ancestry. But strange Scandinavian one, while noone is white in my family

@syedlam9632 Год назад

Dutch be like while watching this: 👀

@star24ize Год назад

they gotta tell us their secrets

@kylefisher1458 Год назад

one of my good friends is from South Korea and he has this great photo of him, his grandfather and father. His grandfather immigrated to Canada during the Korean War and he is 5'0, his father who was raised in Canada is 5'6" and my friend is 6'2"

@MaxIronsThird Год назад

Were the mothers all Korean though?

@kylefisher1458 Год назад

@@MaxIronsThird yes they are

@MM-vs2et Год назад

That's cool, but he is tall not for the same reasons South Korean mainlanders are taller now. His family moved to Canada, an already high-income country even in the 50s. South Koreans got taller because of heavy industrialisation that brought a lot of money into the country, bolstering its nutrition through government programs and incentives. I saw some people with the wrong takeaway from this video because of the "height is 80% genetics and 20% external" tidbit, and so they assume that South Koreans are just naturally taller because of their genetics. But the 80% is fixed, as in you will be at least 80% as tall as your parents, and the 20%'s biggest variable is nutrition. So, height is mostly still nutrition because you can't change your genes anyways, so why bother.

@MariamArt_ Год назад

Most South Koreans are very tall especially the women so me of them are either 5’6-5’9 (1.67-1.77.2)

@MariamArt_ Год назад

Don’t forget about Korean actresses from those Netflix Drama’s

@user-dl6ll4qj8i Год назад

5 foot 7 Korean raised in Canada here. Went to Korea and was shocked by how tall everyone was.

@jakesmithdigital Год назад

If you look at the latest Statista study of South Korean males. They are 5ft8 average and have gotten shorter for the last 3 generations...

@user-dl6ll4qj8i Год назад

@@jakesmithdigital ok Jake Smith 👍

@seoul_louis9584 11 месяцев назад

Young Korean men's average height is almost 180cm (6'0) Old Korean men's average height is around 170cm (5'7)

@johanns7302 Месяц назад

I’m 32 and 180cm Korean but feel short compared to the young Koreans. It’s really interesting.

@ro6470 Год назад

This also tells us that Korean food has very balanced nutrition.

@andrewhampton2644 Год назад

I'm 6 foot and I live in Korea. I think many people would be shocked by the amount of middle schoolers or high schoolers I see that are a few inches taller than me. Sometimes I don't even notice how young they are until I see their face.

@anon-zq2jc 4 месяца назад

The Chinese will claim that the Northern Chinese are the tallest people in Asia, both in the historical perspective and in the present day. But in fact, these people are not ethnically Chinese (Han Chinese), these people are Manchurian and Korean Chinese and so on. And genetically, The Koreans and Manchurians are the closest ethnic groups in the region, as these people lived together for a long time in the same country called Goguryeo, Balhae, Buyeo.

@user-hq3ht2hp6x 4 месяца назад

None of this has changed even a hundred years ago. At that time, the Korean Peninsula was the Japanese colony, and later the Japanese also invaded Manchuria and North China. According to Japanese surveys, Han Chinese are ahead of Koreans, Mongolians and Japanese in height, weight, chest circumference and lung capacity. Research by physical anthropologists in Western countries is the same. Northern Chinese are about 167cm, southern Chinese (Cantonese) are about 162cm, and Koreans are the same height as southern Chinese.😅

@socialite5813 Год назад

I was asking this very questions when I noticed how tall the younger people were when I visited South Korea. Thank you for answer that question. Makes perfect sense.

@Zoa-pd7dk Год назад

150 years ago, Dutch men were 165 centimeters tall. This is according to a team of researchers from Sweden. Korean men were 162 centimeters tall at the time. Men in Japan and China were 155 centimeters tall. The last 100 years have been difficult for Koreans, with invasions and wars. Economic development has led to better nutrition and height growth.

@aishikamitra Год назад

Thanks for answering the question that was in the back of my mind. Why do you think there's an exception for South Korea while the average Japanese or Singaporean person still remains short? And, why isn't the height growth seen in the affluent of other Asian countries?

@designyk Год назад

That’s because their ancestors originated from different regions in east Asia. Usually, people who settled in north side were taller than people from south since northern people were basically nomadic (hunter and gatherer) and they ate far more meat than others.

@star24ize Год назад

yea japanese seems to be a weird case they're developed and wealthy for a while now. maybe have something to do with their eating habit. singapore is like 75% han chinese and 25% malay/indian so maybe that's why on average they're shorter, but when comparing to its surrounding se asian neighbours they're still taller. maybe due to them being wealthier or just more east asian gene

@emilychoi2290 Год назад

theres a theory with japanese people that its the way they sit or the way a lot of traditional things like clothes or nutrition that hinders some growth - but not sure if i buy it entirely!

@Tmhy0 Год назад

Northern Chinese and Koreans are generally taller than Southern Chinese (from which the majority of Singaporeans are descended) and Japanese.

@ETin6666 Год назад

@@designyk Japanese are more closely related to koreans than koreans are to han-chinese. It's down to high quality protein intake - which the japanese still lack surprisingly. Poor protein intake is still an issue over there. And I'm guessing it's the same for the singaporeans as well.

@Greentrees60 Год назад

I am a millenial white woman who loved in south Korea for a year. I was taller than almost all of the men in older generations, and shorter than most of the young men - it is VERY noticeable .

@-SP. Год назад

I read a paper that explored the link between protein intake and height. In conclusion there does seem to be some correlation, especially in developing countries. There was also another study that looked at Japan pre-WW2, and post, they found that in a 30 year time period, the average height increased by 3 inches for men, most likely due increased fish consumption. So while nutrition plays a role in height developed, based on studies high quality proteins might be a more specific cause

@deeznuts2416 Год назад

Makes sense as the the tallest average people are from northern/eastern europe, and their diet is mostly meat.

@-SP. Год назад

@@deeznuts2416 Yes some other examples are the heights of urban citizens in China vs rural, where people in cities often eat more meat as they have higher standards of living. Then there is India, where the state of Punjab has a ton of people over the height of 6ft but the men in almost every other state only average around 5'5. Punjab also happens to be an agricultural state where they produce and drink a lot of milk, and haven abundant access to food unlike other states. In the Netherlands a lot of milk and cheese is consumed, which is believed to be one of the reasons for having the highest average height, despite the fact that people in Bosnia actually have the height increasing gene in larger quantities. Bosnia is a poor country, so their lack of high quality proteins would explain why they haven't overtaken the Netherlands in height yet.

@ciello___8307 Год назад

@@-SP. i'm sure diet helps achieve your potential, but some people's genetics will ultimately set a limit. Not everyone is going to be 6.0ft plus, no matter how well they eat

@-SP. Год назад

@@ciello___8307 That's true. They say 80% of your height is genetic, but the other 20% can be changed, which can be the difference between 5'5 and 5'9

@CallsignJoNay Год назад

I just happen to be travelling in S.Korea right now, and I can attest to the average height of the people here. I'm used to being the tallest person in a room when I travel in Asia, but I feel pretty average height here.

@OliverNorth9729 Год назад

What is your height?

@CallsignJoNay Год назад

@@OliverNorth9729 5'10"

@OliverNorth9729 Год назад

@@CallsignJoNay You're asian/korean?

@CallsignJoNay Год назад

@Oliver North I'm white. From Canada. Just travelling here for a few weeks.

@user-nt8kn9xw4l Год назад

I’m Korean, 5’11” (180cm) born in 1994, and I was taller than many others in Korea 10 years ago. But with Gen Z guys, I’m just like slightly upper than the average. Too many 6 feet guys right now.

@kek209 Год назад

I have noticed this within my own family from india. The young people today are much taller then their parents and grandparents.

@user-kz8ii2vk9v Год назад

Facts. My parents were born in the 70s and they are both 5'4''. I grew to 6'2'' and ate as much in two decades as they had in their first three

@Elmareste Год назад

This is true. Most koreans are taller and have higher academic degree than their parents in results of rapid economy growth.

@seoul_louis9584 11 месяцев назад

Koreans are not Asian. They are tall. They are the tallest people in Whole asia. Taller than Israel and Turkey.

@azj_ Год назад

Yeah it suprise to me when I saw South Korea player's at FIFA World Cup have a same height like western player, I thought they were short, but basically they way more taller than I expected.

@zachmiller9189 Год назад

I lived in Japan for 2 years before going to Korea. I thought I was going to tower over most people in Korea as I did in Japan (I'm 6'2"). Boy was I wrong. Most younger people in Korea are about the same height as people in the US. I was very surprised.

@joshL28 Год назад

This sorta explains how I came out to be 5’10” despite my parents both being around 5’3”.

@milliyetci5672 Год назад

you should do a dna test then.

@oceanrocks Год назад

my later brother was also 5’10, seems like korean guys are 5’10 on average, with some being 6’0 or above

@blakesmith9429 Год назад

The average height for Korean guys is 5'10"-177cm tall now

@DefiantReports Год назад

I am a 24-year-old Indonesian man. My height is 184 cm, which is very tall when compared to my father and grandfather. My father is 170 cm tall. while my grandfather is about 155 cm tall. My grandfather was born when our country was colonized by the Dutch. My grandfather told me that when he was a child, he only ate cassava, potatoes, and rice. He never ate meat or drank milk because the colonizers took away all the livestock. Life was very difficult at that time. Meanwhile, my father was born when our country was already independent. But at that time, our family was still poor. But it was better because our family was able to eat chicken and eggs, although not every day. And I was born when our family's economic condition was good. I got enough nutrition. so I could grow tall.

@MistarZtv Год назад

I had uncles and aunts who lived before the war and during the occupation and after. And yeah the ones who came after were slightly taller. I wonder if hard labor or lots of weight from how people used to live also affects it if people were given the same nutrition.

@ytn00b3 Год назад

That's very rare from Indonesia. Indonesian men are 163.55cm (5 feet 4.39 inches) tall on average. Indonesian women are 152.79cm (5 feet 0.15 inches) tall on average. So far I haven't seen any tall Indonesian man.

@Jiu_zule 7 месяцев назад

@@ytn00b3men 163 on average? Is it real

@aeolia80 Год назад

I lived in Korea for 5 years, when you look at the generations first hand it’s blatantly obvious, better nutrition starting from a young age, I mean my god have you seen their school lunches that are publicly funded?!! I’m 168cm, I was always asked before I moved there if I’d be ok standing out among all these “short” people, then I got there and not only was I kinda average height there TONS of people much taller than me, men and women alike, a lot of colleagues included. The women were always frustrated that the shoe sizes for women never went above a US women’s size 8 (Korean size 250)

@keithmoh1 Год назад

Western perceptions of Asia are always like 40 years back.

@maplecake Год назад

Those lunches are A+. The schools that I taught in all had grandmas making those lunches for the kids and, by god, I've never been so well-fed (outside of my own grandmas' houses ofc)

@tiacho2893 Год назад

@@maplecake I think South Korea and similar countries around the world (like Scandinavian countries) realised that if a government does what it can to make a child's life better (nutrition and education), you tend to have an adult population that is not f'ed up. No kid learns when they haven't eaten.

@edwardkim8972 Год назад

@@tiacho2893 korean parents and family structures are strong too.

@tiacho2893 Год назад

@@edwardkim8972 Granted. But I was thinking of countries (like the UK) where the attitude was "the poor will always be with us so what's the point of educating poor children". The USA is like that right now where a sizeable percentage of "taxpayers" do not see the value of a robustly funded school nutrition program.

@p.spataru Год назад

It's pretty funny how most people consider the younger generations to be always taller than the older ones. For intstance, my paternal grandfather was 174 cm tall (5'7), my dad is 168 cm tall (5'5) and I'm 163 cm tall (5'3), even though the quality of life steadily improved during these times.

@ellomate.. Год назад

that’s super unlucky i feel for you, i’m taller than my dad and grandpa. exact situation in this video.

@minaolenella869 Год назад

maybe the pollution increased?

@bolasblancas420 Год назад

We are talking statistics here… not single instances.

@p.spataru Год назад

@@minaolenella869 only until the '90s, after that it decreased because the main polluters went bankrupt

@inuhundchien6041 Год назад

I understand. Nowadays kids eat too much junkfood and don't excercise

@vincelongman3264 11 месяцев назад

Just got back from a holiday in Korea. It was surreal to see the height difference between young and older Koreans in person

@kitu260 Год назад

I heard somewhere, but I remember hearing that the coldness of the Korean Peninsula had an effect. Such as Northern Europe or Russia.

@Avraine13 Год назад

Yeah this. In China, the northern regions generally have taller people too. Probably some scientific reasoning behind this.

@benkraze3103 2 месяца назад

It has nothing to do with weather. If you look those from South East Asian countries, their new generations are getting taller too, not as tall as the koreans, but it just getting started.

@ariesfairy4444 Год назад

this is soo interesting. i knew height was all about genetics but i didn’t realize how much ur environment plays a role in that. it was interesting to see the real life example of this with his mom and grandma too! very well done video :)

@mhm6 Год назад

key takeaway - if you wanna grow, you need food. Genetics plays a huge part but you will not grow if there is nothing to help fuel that growth.

@jakesmithdigital Год назад

If you look at the latest Statista study of South Korean males. They are 5ft8 average and have gotten shorter for the last 3 generations...

@PaulAllen6304 Год назад

Happy for the Koreans, as an Indian. We too have great potential for height, but sadly enough, the average height in the country is lowering. A lot, I mean a lot of children are stunted due to extreme conditions of living. It's still impressive that even under such conditions, our national average is 5'7. Recent data even shows, the height of average 'Urban middleclass' 19 yo has become 5'9-5'10, and I feel that too. And NRIs often grow to 6ft. But sadly, the overall average is on a decline, since the majority of our countrymen are poor. This extreme height difference is kinda like North Korea vs South Korea situation, except that it's in one single country

@techboy8330 Год назад

yeah most of the teens in india middle class are like avg 5'9""-5'10" and even in the US the avg of college boys is like 5'11". So yea I believe the avg for boys is 5'10" with 6'0" being the upper limit (consider Netherlands, and a few other countries with an avg of 6'0" , the Scandinavian countries , bosnia etc...)

@randmht9976 Год назад

Same bro , the main cause is lack of protein & sanitation. 😭😭😭 I'm 5'10 and I'm the tallest on my family from both side (mother & father ).

@jasonk.-im6od Год назад

May God bless India.

@randmht9976 Год назад

@@jasonk.-im6od thank you .

@1525boy Год назад

Indian-American here. You are wrong about the average height in India today. For men it's 5'4"-5'5" and for women its 5"1'.

@mocococo7178 Год назад

As a Korean I can relate, all the males in my family are over 6 feet, the tallest is 6'4

@8polyglot Год назад

My Korean husband (b. 1991) and I were talking about how recently Gen Z guys and younger in Korea, it's shocking how many of them are 6ft and taller. They keep getting taller and taller lol

@MaxIronsThird Год назад

The Korean lineage is mixed with people from the north(Russia), that's explains why they grow pretty well when they have enough to eat.

@sann5146 Год назад

I hope it stops somewhere, sheesh. 7ft tall humans aren't exactly aesthetically pleasing.

@jakesmithdigital Год назад

If you look at the latest Statista study of South Korean males. They are 5ft8 average and have gotten shorter for the last 3 generations...

@MaxIronsThird Год назад

@@jakesmithdigital Yeah, Korean society might be the most vain of the 21st century, so the only people that are chosen to become famous need to be tall and good looking, which skews perception.

@Jiu_zule 7 месяцев назад

@@MaxIronsThirdaverage height for men in Russia is 1.75 it's the same as in south Korea lol

@nuke___8876 Год назад

If you spend just 5 minutes in SK, you'll immediately notice the HUGE difference in height between the 80 year olds and the 20 year olds.

@HEKC815 Год назад

As a Korean American who was born in Korea and raised there till High school always felt that Koreans are getting taller rapidly when I saw kids younger than me

@brycewalburn3926 Год назад

Korea has been through a lot, and I have so much respect for their resiliency as a people. Korean immigrants have had such a positive influence on America, and though it took awhile, I'm glad to see their culture being celebrated here.

@edwardkim8972 Год назад

Well... part of that is our fault. We are a personal and insular people. We don't tailor our food to outsiders like the Chinese do, for example.

@TheSandrozeneger 3 месяца назад

Im Indonesian. My Dad is 162cm, I'm 167cm and by youngest brother is 176cm. The more recently you are born, the better nutrition you get. But i dont know about the kids born in late 2000s since they are more exposed to processed food

@michaeledgar6459 Год назад

I went to high school with Koreans in the 2010s and they were all a few inches shorter than me. Now if I ever see a group of high-school age Korean guys, they're almost always the same height or taller.

@soniaprado3605 Год назад

I can see the effects good nutrition has on a person's height within my own family, my oldest sister (10 years older than me) and I are basically carbon copies, but I'm 2" taller. She remembers a lot of nights going to bed hungry, our parents were very young and were trying to make a life for themselves. By the time I arrived, we were fairly stablised, I never knew of any lacking or scarcity, I was a very plump child and teenager, I believe my parents were overcompensating from what they were able to offer my sister ^_^'. Long story short, yes, nutrition and an stable and safe environment will do wonders for a person with any genetics.

@mayowaosibodu Год назад

Hm interesting. The video described a study where environmental factors were noted to influence eventual adult height by up to 1”. I wonder if the entire 2” difference you mention, can be attributed to childhood nutrition. It’ll generally be interesting to know if there’s some sort of upper bound on how much environment can influence height. Eg “Other things being equal, you’ll at most be x” shorter due to lack of proper nutrition, no more..”

@eugeniabarsukova Год назад

@@mayowaosibodu it was on average though, some people ate better and grew more than others. As for the upper bound, when I was doing sports, we were told that our limit was 15 cm taller than our parents.

@NNA1984 Год назад

Japan also did very well. They were famously known as short people until 1945. Now they are not short any more.

@Hiyeee Год назад

This is true. When I went to S Korea 3 years ago, all the dudes were SO tall! Like 6'0 plus!

@serelbass7283 Год назад

I mean South Korea went from one of the shortest in the world to one of the tallest in Asia very quickly.

@iloveicecream127 Год назад

Koreans were on the taller side even in the past. If you see pictures of the food that Koreans ate even when Korea was dirt poor you understand that Koreans ate A LOT! If you read texts from Chinese ambassadors they would write how Koreans had endless rice. And now that Korea has the money for nutrients and variety of foods, it’s no wonder Korea grew taller. Japan has different cultures when it comes to food so it makes sense that their increase wasn’t as exponential.

@adityasixviandyj7334 Год назад

Sorry if my english is not perfect ( ;w;) Nutrition is playing bigger role overall, genetic is just a max cap for how tall we can grow, and when we had enough or more nutrient intake, we can achieve that cap easily. I'm Chinese, and My mom & grandma from both side was shorter from me & my brother, but my grandpa both from my mom & dad side was taller than the averages. The result? We the grandsons & granddaughters were tall overall, like the average is around 176cm-ish. For some picky eaters like my brother, they are below but still cross 170cm easily. I still remember I achieve 160cm when I still Junior High, while my friend is still around 155cm. Now, my young nieces & cousins, were taller than me and some break 180cm at senior high. They had access more nutrient and supplement that not available that time compared to me & my brother. Also my mom when pregnant back then is also getting different nutrient level compared to my younger aunt. Then I notice a thing, milk for pregnant mother back then not as fortified as nowadays, even baby formulas nowadays is extremely fortified compared when my lil brother had. Some even say that now baby formulas milk are having less real milk compared what my brother had in 1995. And that why I think the main reason why we had more nutrient, is due the fortification of our food. As I remember in 1995, not allot of our foods is fortified, compared to nowadays that EVERY SINGLE THINGS is fortified with many vitamins, minerals, or other health benefit supplement as we can, from flours, oils, Butters, even candies & sodas. I still remember like the cooking oil my mom used to buy is just simple palm cooking oil, but now that brand fortified ones with Vit A & E (which oil soluble). I mean sodas & candies is still sodas & candies back then, but now even a single can of fruit soda already fulfilled with a daily intake of vitamin c that we need. And compared back then, multivitamin is mainly Vitamin C, A, E, D, calcium, and the notorious fish oil, separated each other. But now, we can get all of kind of of vitamin & mineral in single caplet, and still eat many fortified food daily. No wonder newer gen Z are easily can get taller compared to millenials (me) due heavy fortification in their food, millenial are taller than our parents (boomer & older) due we had some of fortification in our food, and boomer & their parent are not that differences because there is no such or very little of fortification in their food.

@friedtoaster4059 Год назад

I aint readin allat

@Blinerss 4 месяца назад

I wonder how the increasing use of growth hormone injections in the younger generations in s korea today will affect this chart in the future. I have countless students telling me about how theyre getting these shots done at home.

@mayaa1125 Год назад

Love this visual format. So easy to follow and satisfying to look at

@toolbaggers Год назад

Let's hope that South Koreans don't continue this trend up to America's height plateaux where the extra 'nutrition' transitions to exponential horizontal growth.

@sarahporter9979 Год назад

My maternal grandmother was born in the 1910s and she was 145 cm. My mother was born in the 50s and she is 157 cm. I was born in the 70s and am 168 cm. My mother's side is from Seoul and my father's side is from North Korea. I'm the tallest woman in my entire extended family of 32 women. All of the other women on both sides are under 165 cm, and the average height is around 158 cm. Had I stayed in South Korea, it's possible that I would have been a little shorter than I am now (we came to Australia in the 80s). My parents are not tall, but during my adolescence, I ate a lot of dairy and meat, which I think definitely contributed to my height growth. My father's family remained in poverty for some time, because they escaped from the North and were homeless for awhile, so didn't really get to eat much growing up.

@joycea.7332 4 месяца назад

I envy koreans because of their height. And I heard they also don't have body odor like other people, deodorants are rare.

@MOI-rt5zi Год назад

My parents are on the shorter side. My Mom is 4'9 and my dad is 5'3. I also happen to have an older sister who's 4'7. But I on the other hand somehow grew 6'1 during my high school years. All four of us eat the same stuff, live in the same house, and none of my grandparents or any relatives that I know of are tall. My sister was concerned about her height when she was in high school so, she started taking growth inhibitors but it showed no results for her. I took growth inhibitors too but during my elementary school days before I got puberty and that's why i think it worked for me.

@makisekurisu4674 Год назад

you hit the Jackpot with your genes

@thomasmcginnis7526 Год назад

You're adopted. They didn't tell you

@MOI-rt5zi Год назад

@@thomasmcginnis7526 me everytime my mum scolded me:

@joseville Год назад

Growth inhibitors would inhibit growth, no?

@melon_boxedmilk Год назад

you answered your own question - growth inhibitors.

@nutbuster6936 Год назад

Why does no one at Vox know how to pronounce the word "women" correctly?

@vasia34100 Год назад

What is a Woman?

@user-np6lv1oy3e Год назад

Just visited Seoul (South Korea) and my first impressions was.. people here are tall.. anyone knows if South Koreans are the tallest asians among the asia's countries? I will not be surprise.

@user-rc6of7nd2v Год назад

how you tall??

@monkasmerp6614 Год назад

As a 6’1 Korean-American raised in the middle class, and the son of 5’7 and 5’2 parents I relate to this

@sann5146 Год назад

Wow so special.

@gummybearlesbianmafia Год назад

I found this extremely interesting. I think definitely explain the height differences in my own family. Like my mom was 5'0, she was born in 1930 so the beginning of the great depression, my great grandparents were poor so she didn't get the greatest nutrition also time period was against everyone without wealth. By the time I was 12 I was already taller then my mom. I topped out at 5'6. I can see now how her childhood could have effected her growth.

@messybeans48 Год назад

affected*

@CaptainMarvelsSon Год назад

I am by far the shortest in my family except for my mother. Genetics looked at my nearest brother and said, "OK, that's all of the excess height we are going to give out for a while." He is eight or nine inches taller than I am.

@RustyPro676 Год назад

thanks, this is the exact question I asked myself while being in south korea, expecting to be one of the tallest with 6´2. The younger generation is just insanely tall :D

@jakesmithdigital Год назад

If you look at the latest Statista study of South Korean males. They are 5ft8 average and have gotten shorter for the last 3 generations...

@gregcooks9 Год назад

I feel like you can see this phenomenon in the United States On the east coast people tend to be shorter but once you get into the midwest People tend to be really tall In the assumption is they have great access to food that's very affordable and they have clean air etc.

@hoppingshark7676 Год назад

You sure? Or are the tall people standing out more?

@gregcooks9 Год назад

@@hoppingshark7676 idk 🤷🏻‍♂️ I’ve had people agree with me and others think I’m seeing things so until I see some kind of study I’ll never know.

@ced271 Год назад

Metric please

@bobpage3886 Год назад

When the first Dutch arrived in Brazil, there were reports of Indians saying that they were "light-skinned, blond, blue-eyed and short". There was even a painting in which the Dutch were represented as short people next to the indigenous and Portuguese. Today the Portuguese who are the smallest people in Europe, while the Dutch are the tallest in the world. What a change.

@TechOutAdam Год назад

Koreans are gorgeous people. This was fascinating to watch. Of all things that made the difference. I won't say in the comments, you have to watch this.

@TomsBackyardWorkshop Год назад

The height of my siblings ranges from 5'2" to 6'. My sister is the shortest. I am second in height. My two older brothers who I feel its obvious my parent love more than my sister and I are 5'11" and 6'. Why do I say my parent loves my brothers more than my sister and I? My father didn't go to my sisters wedding but less than a year later he went to my brothers wedding. He also basically ignored me my entire life. He was a pitcher in school and I had to beg him to play catch with me. I can count on one hand the number of times we actually played catch.

@tiacho2893 Год назад

I am born Korean (1971) but came to Canada as a toddler. When I visited Korea the first time in 1990, I needed clothing and at 180 cm there was not much off the rack for me (I also played football in high school). Riding the subway, I was at least a half head taller than everyone else. I grew up in Canada, so I am probably an example of modern nutrition and hygiene and their immediate effect on height. I think Koreans like me that grew up in Western countries would add a few interesting data points. We grew up with Western affluence that took a few more years to fully develop in South Korea. In my experience, South Korean males my height are generally under 30 and males of my age are generally a bit shorter. Both the overall calorie intake and nutritional content of my diet growing up and those in South Korea of my age differ greatly. But modern South Korea, is probably indistinguishable. My cousin, born in 1991, was the first member of family to surpass me in height. He is 182 cm and came to Canada in middle school.

@youngblood3907 Год назад

Don't be ridiculous...I'm Korean and I was born in 1970. I'm 185 and have never had a problem buying clothes. And 180 was a common height around me at the time, and the fact that the average height was 175 is proof that there were a lot of 180s and 170s. Maybe you are mistaken and went to North Korea or Japan.

@tiacho2893 Год назад

@@youngblood3907 Yes of course Korean clothing stores had many 180 cm 110 kg size 11 shoe football players shopping for clothing. Yes. I must have been mistaken and was accidentally in North Korea. And I'm sure no one you met has ever commented on your height because it's so commonplace. BTW, at 185 cm, that puts you in the 97th percentile for current adult Korean males. In 1990, you would represent an even smaller percentage. It seems you are not disagreeing with me exactly as my experience coincides with the data in the video. Your experience seems to disagree with the thesis of the video itself.

@jacobj9907 Год назад

@@tiacho2893 ignore him. He doesn't know Korea at all

@thomasciarlariello3228 Год назад

"Scientific American" November 1991 has a genetic chart to prove how Koreans before 1910 had a genetic heritage of Elizabethan and Queen Anne Sailors who referred to Korea as "Exotic Far Away Land of Gigantics".

@thePronto Год назад

I have been traveling to S Korea since 1990 and I have noticed even in that period that people born since that time are significantly taller than people born in the 60s. But people are also getting fatter: there were no overweight Koreans in the 90s, now there are.

@user-mr9fx8kz9j Год назад

Can't you guys use SI units when talking about S. Korea?

@kaelakeluskar Год назад

I love South Korea

@L3uX Год назад

I've been noticing this... Korean (born in USA), I'm 6'2. Grandpas from both dad/mom side are about 5'4"-5" (one of them escaping NK), both grandmas were about 5'3"-5". Mother side stayed around 5"8' for the men and 5'4" for my mom. My dad's side however of 2 (my dad and uncle) shot up to 6' to 5'11" respectively. Then for me, 6'2", my sister 5'7". My cousin likely portrays more of the typical added height more attributed to nutrition, whom the dad and mom is around 5'6", he's just about 5'10".

@imnackeredsirnackered948 Год назад

I am 6ft 1 inches tall and I remember walking into line at a food store in Busan Korea and all the guys there were like my height or a tiny bit shorter.

@sann5146 Год назад

Not my experience. 5'9" to 5'11" is the norm.

@star24ize Год назад

the usual sterotype of asian is they're short but asian (using referred to east/se asian) covers too large of an area and population and there's too much diversity in it to group them together. east asians are generally taller than se asian and even only in east asian region the northern region (think korea peninsula/northeastern china) ppl are on average much taller.

@huonghayley Год назад

This is what I've been wondering lately since i got into kpop haha

@youngblood3907 Год назад

Mark Trollope [The Church in Corea](1915) ㅡIn describing his impressions of Koreans, he said that they are taller than Japanese people by about a head above their shoulders. he praises the faithfulness of Catholics, especially those who are martyred for their faith. also mentions that they are a courageous people who rebelled against the Japanese for the sake of their country.

@custom3505 Год назад

a weak country will always be colonized which can probably explain their failure in history against powerful nations that surrounds them

@BBB-kb1op Год назад

I m a Korean woman, my height is 163cm, my father 180cm, younger sister 171cm, younger brother 183cm

@augusto7681 Год назад

In the case of my family its happened backward. My grandfather have a X height, my father is shorter than him, he grow up in big family, probably starve a lot. I am exactly the same height as my father, i dint starve, but I always consume little food. Comparing with the new generation that very often the kids are taller than their parents I feel left behind. I am shorter compared to the average height of my generation than my father compared to the average of when he grew up. So in a weird way I am shorter than my father despite we have the same height.

@jakesmithdigital Год назад

If you look at the latest Statista study of South Korean males. They are 5ft8 average and have gotten shorter for the last 3 generations...

@Scriabinfan593 Год назад

Japan is and was wealthier than South Korea, it's interesting that they haven't grown as much as South Koreans.

@jodypark8898 3 месяца назад

My father's dad is 183cm. (Born in 1920s) His son is 183-3cm. (1950s) My brother is 187cm. (1990s) My mother's dad is 177cm. (1930s) My mother 164cm. (1960s) My sister 169cm. (1980s) As a Korean born in the 80s, next generations being taller than its previous ones was the most natural thing. But now I see articles that average height of the young Korean people have stopped surpassing their older generations. So height IS genetics but when impacted by war, famine, malnutrition the gene does not live out its full potential- but is just waiting for the day to be passed on to the future generation for its turn to shine.

@daywalker3735 Год назад

I just moved to Korea and yea....the OLD people are generally really small. Other than that, people are actually quite tall here

@Aaron-xl3rk Год назад

Kimchi make Korean big

@faboo811 Год назад

This was really well done, the graphs were beautiful and informative. More videos like this please!

@wideface Год назад

For me it went from cool to gimmicky very quick. Like, if all you’re gonna do with the pens is draw an arrow or one or two words on a graph printed on a piece of paper and animate it and highlight stuff using software, just show me the graph full screen from the beginning.

@cyan_oxy6734 Год назад

The units of measurement were a mess.

@Tychoxi Год назад

you know "heritability" doesnt mean that 80% of height is genetic, it means that of the observed variability in height, 80% of that variability can be attributed to genetic factors. so it's not about total height, it's about the variability in height

@Zethonring23 Год назад

I noticed a little of that myself in the UK, working class people tend to be shorter, middle and upper class folk tend to be quite tall, I guessed they tended to have a better diet and grow up in a more spacious healthy environment

@seoul_louis9584 Год назад

Im south korean high school student. And my all classmate boys are at least over 5'9. Most of them are taller than 6 foot.