Korean Genealogy Embraces Inclusive Digital Jokbo
Mark Peterson, a BYU professor emeritus, organized and chaired The Korea Times Global Forum on March 3 examining reform of Korean jokbo family registers to include maternal lines. Speakers—including FamilySearch Korea leaders and grassroots researchers—advocated returning to palgojodo-style trees, digitizing records, indexing entries, and linking databases to DNA and AI tools. The forum drew about 100 attendees and emphasized making jokbo living, searchable family records.
Key Points
- 1Held forum March 3 urging jokbo reform to include maternal lines and equal representation of women.
- 2Explained historical shift to patrilineality since late 17th century, advocating return to palgojodo format.
- 3Recommended digitization, indexing, AI tools and DNA linkage to make jokbo living, searchable family records.
Scoring Rationale
Moderate novelty and actionable digitization recommendations; limited scope and single-opinion reporting reduce broader impact overall.
Sources
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