Are men with type B blood really women?

Kim Sang-hoon, 29, with Type B blood, rarely participates in personality blood group conversations.

"Koreans have the mistaken perception that a man with type B blood is selfish, womanizer or angry. I do not want people to judge me that way before I know myself." [19659002] Despite scientific evidence that blood types and personalities are linked, Koreans often ask for blood groups to predict someone's personality –

According to a survey carried out. Last year out of 1,500 people by Gallup Korea, 58% of those polled said they believe blood types are correlated with personalities.

People who have Type A blood are shy but respectful, giving great value to morals and ethics. A person with type B blood is considered friendly but selfish. A person with type O blood is confident but sometimes aggressive, wanting to be a leader. A person with type AB blood is considered intelligent but critical or distant.

The perception of Koreans of such traits sometimes plays a role in the choice of partners, although this is not a decisive factor.

It is said that type A blood and type O blood are the best, since a happy man with type O blood is in tune with a considerate woman with type A blood.

A couple of blood type AB is also considered they are well matched because they are considered calm and rational when they settle disputes.

The worst couples are said to include a man with type B blood and a woman with type A blood. As they have opposite personalities, a conscious woman with type A blood and a free man with Type B blood might have quarrels.

"Such a misperception of the connection between blood groups and personalities sometimes destroys a relationship, the real problems are in their personality, some people tend to blame blood groups," says Choi Mee-jung, a psychotherapist at the center of Haple Lab Local Council

Koreans' belief in the correlation between their groups and their personalities do not stop there.

According to a survey of 882 employees by the Job Korea company last year, 59% of respondents said they believed that blood groups affect tasks.

Blood is a little more concentrated in office jobs that require care, while there were more people with blood type B perceived as being free in production or on the building site. More people with O-type blood – perceived as sociable – worked in sales, while rational people and AB-type negotiators found themselves more in marketing and advertising – although the differences were slight.

About the correlation between blood groups and personalities, the medical community in Korea rejects the theory of blood group personality as pseudoscience, saying that personality has nothing to do with blood .

Han Kyu-seob, "In defining the personality of someone, five norms are normally used: nervous temperament, openness, introverted / extroverted, social skills and consciousness."

"There is no scientific evidence that there is" Chung Jae-seung, professor of physics at KAIST, said that Korea's obsession with blood pess was born in the 1920s from Japan, which had tried to justify its colonization by proving the superiority of the nation. The nation rich in type A had concluded that people of type A blood were superior to others.

"Although a growing number of Japanese, who created the myth, no longer believe in the theory of blood personality, many Koreans still have blind faith in this," said Chung.

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