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Blood type has nothing to do with who will form a relationship or get married, a survey suggests, pulling the rug from under one of the odder superstitions that survive here. The Korea Marriage Culture Institute, a division of matchmaker Sunoo, studied 16,383 couples -- 1,366 of them married -- over the five years since 2001 and found that the distribution of blood types among men the women married or had relationships with was about equal.
Of the couples studied, women of type O were involved in relationships with 25.8 percent men of the same type, 27.8 percent of type A, 26.7 percent of type B, and 27.9 percent of type AB, or a roughly identical breakdown. Women of type A were involved in relationships with 34.8 percent of men of the same type, 36.7 percent of type B, 36.1 percent type O, and 34.6 percent type AB. Women with type B or AB were in relationships with O, A, B and AB men in a ratio of 25.8-28.2 percent, and 9.8-10.8 percent respectively.
The combination rumored to spell doom -- type A woman and type B man -- was in fact the most fortuitous, if within the margin of error, at 36.7 percent.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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