Research from Harvard School of Public Health found that blood types AB and B are at the highest risk for heart disease.
While blood type personality theory is pseudoscience, other research has discovered that blood type does, in fact, correlate to certain physical immunities. Only 18.5 percent said they did not dislike a blood type.Īnother outlet reported a 2010 survey from Job Korea that found 45.3 percent of employees in the finance and accounting industry had type A blood, 46.7 percent in the service industry had type B blood, 45.7 percent in sales had type O, and 37 percent in a specialized field had type AB.Īccumulation of discrimination cases and individual complaints pushed media to withdraw television shows that perpetuated the blood type personality theory since 2008, with some shows and documentaries actively disproving the theory. Type B blood had the worst reputation with 32 percent of women disliking men with type B blood, followed by type A (30.1 percent) type AB (12.5 percent), and type O (6.4 percent). Local reports in 2013 showed 63 percent of women and 48 percent of men believed that they did not get along with certain blood types when dating. News outlets also reported on blood type personality surveys.
In 2004, a Nonghyup division drew public ire for saying that it will only hire people with type O and B blood types while asking people with type A and AB blood to refrain from applying since they “had no drive.”
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The television series “Someday” revolved around the theory while MBC’s “The Experiment Show, Really? Really!” drew fire for negatively portraying people with type B blood. Since then, numerous pop songs such as Kim Hyun-jung’s “Type B Men,” Psy’s “Life Theatre – type A” and “Life Theatre - type B,” and F(x)’s “ABO” centered around blood type personalities. According to Spiegel Online, other scientists of his time, such as bacteriologist Max Gundel, believed type B blood was common among "psychopaths, hysterics, and alcoholics.”Īlthough Hirszfeld himself said at the end of World War II that blood group research “served a bad cause,” the pseudoscience was picked up by Takeji Furukawa, a Japanese professor at Tokyo Women’s Teacher’s School in 1926, who subsequently propagated the blood type personality theory.Ĭrossing over to Korea, the four blood types have become heavily associated with personality, most prominently in 2004 with a survey by MediTV indicating 75 percent believed the theory. In the early 20th century, Hirszfeld first theorized that blood groups indicated inferior or superior racial characteristics, with type A being the blood of the “superior” West and type B indicating inferiority. The pseudoscience began with Ludwik Hirszfeld, the Polish microbiologist, and serologist who labeled blood types as we know them today. People with type A blood are said to be introverted, indecisive, and timid type Os are tolerant of others, well-rounded, and stubborn type Bs are self-centered, moody, and extroverted Type ABs are thrill-seeking, eccentric, and individualistic. Whether Koreans believe in the theory or not, all are, at the least, aware of what social image each blood type portrays. Many believe people with type O blood have an extroverted personality suited to collectivistic Korean culture and few character flaws, which may have arisen from the fact that type O blood is considered the “universal donor.” Type O blood had also ranked number one in the same survey conducted in 20, Gallup Korea said. The next most popular were type A (20 percent), type B (16 percent), and type AB (6 percent). The study, which surveyed 1,500 men and women over 19 years of age, showed 58 percent believed blood type corresponded to personality traits, with 49 percent of them saying they liked people with type O blood the most.
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