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Indian Korean First Lady?

Kim Yoon-ok is a descendant of an Indian princess.

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Korea’s first lady Kim Yoon-ok, who accompanied her
husband, President Lee Myung-Bak on a state visit to
India in January, is a descendant of an Indian
princess, according to the president’s office.

 

Kim is supposedly a descendant of Heo Hwang-ok,
a princess who travelled from an ancient kingdom in Ayodhya, to Korea and married King Suro of Korea’s GayaKingdom in A.D. 48, with whom she bore 10 children, whose progeny
constitute the Heo and Gimhae Kim lineages.

According to official claims, DNA samples from
two royal
Gaya tombs in 2004 in Gimhae, in Korea’s SouthGyeongsangProvince, confirmed a genetic link with ethnic groups in
India.

 

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