This is interesting. Compare this with the recent findings of Israel
connection of Mizos. There too, the connection has been established
as " there was a Jewish female founder effect in the Kuki community"

http://www.the-week.com/24sep12/currentevents_article1.htm

I guess we need to take a more detailed look into this.


kishore


--- In IndiaArchaeology@yahoogroups.com, JK <tiptronicus@g...> wrote:
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/847880.cms
>
> AYODHYA: What's South Korea's Ayodhya connection? To get the
answer,
> pay a visit to the picturesque banks of river Saryu in the holy
city.
> Here one will find a monument in memory of an Ayodhya princess who
is
> believed to have 'mothered' a dynasty in South Korea.
>
> It has been an affair that resurfaced after a lapse of almost 2000
> years in the year 2001. Mayors of Ayodhya and Kim-Hae city in South
> Korea had signed a Sister City Bond in March 2001.
>
> The origin of the historical ties can be traced back to the middle
of
> the first century AD. According to Sam Kuk Yusa, the ancient history
> of Korea, Queen Huh, wife of legendary King Suro, who founded the
> Karak Kingdom, was born in Ayodhya.
>
> Queen Huh was a princess of the kingdom. Her father, the king of
> Ayodhya, on receiving a divine revelation, sent her on a long sea
> voyage to the Karak kingdom in southern Korea to marry King Suro,
> states the lines inscribed on the plaque at the monument in Ayodhya.
>
> The monument in memory of Hwang Huh is built in Korean tradition
using
> a three-metre high stone weighing 7,500 kg, specially shipped from
> South Korea.
>
> The clan that descended from the Ayodhya princess Huh and South
> Korean King Suros, today known as Kim-Hae-Kim clan, has a little
over
> six million Huh descendants in the Republic of South Korea.
>
> The Kim-Hae-Kim clan has countless illustrious members including
many
> presidents and premiers.
>
> The memorial site in Ayodhya has become a place of pilgrimage for
> members of the clan.
>
> While unveiling the monument Bong Ho-Kim, president of the clan
> society, Republic of Korea had said: "Ayodhya being birthplace of
our
> great Queen Huh, has acquired the status of a place for pilgrimage
to
> over six million descendants."