[4] Later, Susumu Ōno caused a stir in Japan with his theory that Tamil constituted a lexical stratum of both Korean and Japanese, which was widely publicized in the following years but was quickly abandoned.
[5] Lee Ki-Moon, Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University, argued in 2011 that Clippinger's conclusion should be revisited.
[1] The Samguk yusa describes Heo Hwang-ok, who was the first queen of Geumgwan Gaya—a statelet of the Gaya confederacy—as coming from Ayuta in India.
[7] According to the historian Kim Byung-ho, the Karak Kingdom of King Suro was named after an old Dravidian word meaning 'fish'.
[8][9] Susumu Ōno,[10] and Homer B. Hulbert[11] proposed that early Dravidian people, especially Tamils, migrated to the Korean peninsula and Japan.