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While rereading a question and answer I posted
[here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/55767/does-%E9%9F%93%E5%9B%BD-
mean-south-korea-or-korea-as-a-whole/55776#55776) I started thinking about how
one would refer to Koreans as an ethnic whole rather than as the currently
separate political countries they are.

I generally know that 韓国人 can be used to refer to the people of South Korea
and 北朝鮮人 can be used to refer to the people of North Korea. But, what would
one call Korean people all together in a way that isn't clumsy such as
韓国人と北朝鮮人?

Are there political implications to using the de facto term of 朝鮮人 to mean
Korean regardless of which country they come from? Is there a more neutral way
to express this, possibly 高麗人, or is that not in use?
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Referring to Korean people as an ethnic group and not as political entities?
One approach to similar questions that can sometimes work, is to find the
English entry at Wikipedia, and see where it links through to in the left-hand
sidebar list of languages. For this case, the English article is at
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans> and the corresponding Japanese article
is at
[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/朝鮮民族](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%9D%E9%AE%AE%E6%B0%91%E6%97%8F).

Further googling appears to corroborate this usage, with [朝鮮民族 yielding 512K
googits](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%E6%9C%9D%E9%AE%AE%E6%B0%91%E6%97%8F%22+%22%E3%81%AF%22)
(including "は" in the search hits to filter specifically for Jpaanese) vs.
only [146K for
韓民族](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%E9%9F%93%E6%B0%91%E6%97%8F%22+%22%E3%81%AF%22)
(the strict direct kanji version of the corresponding Korean term, 한민족 _Han
minjok_ ).
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