An investigation
Because of my last post and larry's subsequent response, I decided to do an investigation to see a) what the average height is in Korea, and b) what the average height is in Canada to draw conclusions regarding how much of a sore thumb I will stick out as.
Here are the results:
According to a 2001 Sports Indicators of Korea published by Korea Sport Science Institute, the average height of a modern Korean, ages 25-29, is 173.0 centimeters for men and 160.9 centimeters for women. That translates to an average height of 5'2'' for women and 5'6'' for men.
Some random website posted Canadian results as such: Average height of women (Canadian) is 163 centimeters, or 5 feet 4 inches. Average height of men (Canadian) is 178 centimeters, or 5 feet 10 inches.
Korean to Canadian average for women is, then: 5'2'' to 5'4''
Korean to Canadian average for men is, then: 5'6'' to 5'10''
It's surprising that there is a four inch difference between men and a two inch difference between women. Hmmm...
Here in Canada I am taller than probably 9.5/10ths of the other women I encounter. I am probably taller than 7.5/10ths of the men I encounter. A comment is made about my height by approximately 75% of the people I meet for the first time.
Here is an equation to calculate the sore thumbiness that I will experience in Korea:
6 inches taller than the average male + curly hair ( - very dark, almost black hair and eyes) + English foreigner status = huge sore thumb.
I'll thank my lucky stars I don't have blonde hair and huge breasts. Phewf.
posted by Jessica @ 7:37 p.m.
8 Comments
8 Comments:
What's made your thumb sore?
I don't put any time into my blog... are you worried about me?
And finally, you don't know larry?!?! You're missing out.
PS: Too bad you can't make my birthday party. It's gonna be delicious.
ha! that's great. don't worry though, they have tvs in korea, so they probably have seen other giants before... ha
who is darcy?
I am glad you are all getting nicely acquainted. I would like to create a community-like environment here in blog land for you all to feel able to express yourselves and communicate openly with one another. And share in the joy of the wonderfulness of Jessica.
173cm is 5'8"; not 5'6". ;)
Now you know.
I wanted to believe you Blake, but I just checked two conversion sites and the most I've come to is 5'6" and three quarters.
Very curious.
173 cm = 5.676 feet
0.676 feet = 8.112 inches
therefore, 173 cm = 5'8"
2.5 cm is approx. 1 inch. 2 inches is approx. 5 cm. You figured out that 5'10" is 178 cm. Subtract 2 inches/5 cm from that and you end up with 173 cm.
:)
I can handle being wrong...
boo hoo. It would be more interesting if the average height was 5'6". Maybe I'll conduct my own study upon arrival.
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