[SunkenCiv]

Fig 1. Map of the dog excavated sites with a photo of the skeleton of Neukdo1. In Neuk-do site, the dog bones were excavated from C District. In Bonghwang-dong site, the dog bone was excavated from the upper (northern) district. The base map of the Korean Peninsula was created using public domain data from the USGS EROS (http://eros.usgs.gov/). The map of Gyeongsangnam-do Province was produced using public domain GIS data provided by the National Geographic Information Institute of Korea (NGII), and all maps were edited using QGIS.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0346864

[Sirius Lee]

Bred for flavor as well as companionship?

[Wuli]

Korea is a peninsula and depending on its geography a peninsula can have attributes that isolate it, somewhat, like an Island.

The separation between the Korean peninsula and its neighbors to the north is noted by the Yalu River on the western side of the division, the Tumen river on the eastern side of the division, and in the middle Mount Paektu (Changbaishan): A sacred, active volcano and the highest peak on the peninsula, located roughly in the middle of the border area.

It would not be unusual for canine populations on the peninsula to interbreed more with other canines on the peninsula than with canines across the Yalu or Tumen rivers or the opposite side of Mount Paektu. Over a long period of time they’d have some standout genetic features marking them unique.

[thescourged1]

Self-basting?

[kawhill]

I wonder if they bred labrador retrievers, got one and he is crazy.

[2nd Amendment]

Only scared dogs hang around Asian restaurants

[Skid289]

They taste rike chicken!

[mikey_hates_everything]

the now extinct Japanese wolf

Ha! What my 3000 year old breed Shiba Inu descended from. The little bastards are crazy for the first few years but are practically born housebroken, clean themselves like cats and are extremely loyal. Most can only have one owner. The Shiba, Korean Jindo, the dingo and the New Guinea singing dogs all look similar but haven’t yet been connected genetically.

[minnesota_bound]

Korean dogs were raised to be soft and juicy and taste good with a side of rice....