QUOTE(TTTVTTT @ Jul 26 2008, 10:29 PM)

Could you explain what genetic evidence says otherwise?
I was just looking up some stuff about koreans and mongols. Wikipedia research only but it says:
Koreans are believed to be descendents of Altaic-[7][8] or proto-Altaic[9]-speaking tribes, linking them with Mongolians, Tungusics, Turkics, and other Central Asians. Archaeological evidence suggest proto-Koreans were Altaic-language-speaking migrants from south-central Siberia,[10] who populated ancient Korea in successive waves from the neolithic age to the Bronze Age[11].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KoreansI also read somewhere Koreans are decendants of Manchus as are some other races around Russia. And apparently Manchus are decendants of Mongols so it appears Koreans and Mongols are sonmething like cousins.
I was reading some stuff about Haplogroups but i read Haplogroups arnt the same for one group of people but even if they are supposedly Haplogroup 02b which is shared by the Daur of inner mongolia who are apparently the decendants of the Khitan.
The halpogroupsa re not the same for all members of a race, and there seems overlap of haplogroups for Koreans and Mongols, as well as other Tungus and Turk peoples.
The other major Northeast Asian Y-chromosome haplogroup, Haplogroup C3, is also found among the Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese peoples, as well as among the Mongolian peoples, Turkic peoples, and even the Ainu of Japan and the Na-Dené peoples of North America, but Haplogroup C3 displays a cline of frequency opposite to that of Haplogroup O2, to the effect that Haplogroup C3 is more frequent among the more northerly populations (Mongolian, Turkic, Northern Tungusic, Koryak, Nivkh, etc.), whereas Haplogroup O2 is more frequent among the more southerly populations (Southern Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese), and it is entirely absent from the Ainu and Na-Dené populations. The typically Sino-Tibetan and Southeast Asian Haplogroup O3 is also shared in common by most Tungusic, Mongolic, Turkic, Korean, and Japanese populations with various frequency and diversity values
I would say they are probably not the same but are 'cousins' just as turks, hungarians, manchus or mughals are.
C3c subclad marker which exist in every nomadic steppe population doesnt exist in korean plus they have significant percentage of O3, O2b plus other DNA differentiating them from the heaviliy sinicized manchu and 'somewhat isolated' evenk.
C3c (M48, M77, M86) Typical of Northern Tungusic peoples, Kazakhs, Oirats, Kalmyks, and Outer Mongolians, with a moderate distribution among Southern Tungusic peoples, Inner Mongolians, Buryats, Tuvinians, Kyrgyz, Uyghurs, Uzbeks, Karakalpaks, and Tajiks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_C3_(Y-DNA)C3* indeed is very spread out just like O3*, but the subclade C3c that exist in every nomadic steppe people in high degree ceased to exist in Korean ~ pretty much shows that Korean have been there in the peninsula for long time separating them from other tungusic tribes. Turkic and Tungusic people have pretty much different DNA too, which explains why they look kinda different (kazakh/kyrgyz/yakut vs evenk/oroqen/xibe).
Its really clear that hungarian, turkish are whole different people than mongols and kazakh genetically, language DOES NOT EQUAL to genetics ~ it can be transferred and borrowed from one tribe to another tribe, I dont see a hindi claiming swedish as their cousin just because they are part of 'indo european family' which shows common ancestor the proto-indo-european people.