According to recent data, Korean adults have better physique than Japanese and Chinese but inferior in physical strength.Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism released the data "2013 National Physical Fitness Survey" on 24th.
The survey has been conducted every two years since 1989.
When looking at these data that surveyed 4,000 people(adult men and women)nationwide from August to October in 2013, the average height of Korean men in the early 20s(19-24 years) is 175.5㎝ (Japan 171.7㎝, China 171.1 cm), late 20s(25-29 years) is 175.8㎝ (Japan 171.9㎝,China 170.7㎝)
With the exception of the early 50s age group, Korean men were taller than Chinese and Japanese men.
Korean Women's height were taller than Chinese and Japanese women in all ages.
The average weight of Korean male in early 20s is 72.2㎏(Japan,China 65.6㎏) and late 20s is 75.6㎏ (Japan 66.8㎏, China 68.7㎏)
In the case of women, Korean women were heavier than Chinese and Japanese counterparts from the early 20s till early 30s.
Chinese women were heaviest among 3 countries since late 30s.
Even though Korean saw improvements in their physique in recent years, their quality of strength, stamina has decreased as well.
In a survey of test to measure the grip strength of the hand, Korean men and women in all ages fell behind the Chinese and Japanese counterparts.
In a 20m round trip long running test, Korean male in early 20's marked average 53.3 times while Japanese male in early 20's recorded 72.7 times.
Korean women in early 20s has record of 30.7 times while Japanese counterpart has record of 38.9 times in this test as well.
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