Thread by @chanel_mochi13, If you didn't know, there was a Indian princess who became a [...]

If you didn't know, there was a Indian princess who became a South Korean queen!
Princess Suriratna, aka. Heo Hwang-ok, went to Korea in 48 AD, some 2000 years ago.. and started the Karak dynasty by marrying a local king.
(Princess Suriratna img.)

Some Chinese-language texts claim that the then King of Ayodhya had a dream where God ordered him to send his 16-year-old daughter to South Korea to marry King Kim Suro. They had 10 sons and both lived to be over a 150 years old. An anthropologist named Kim Byung-mo Ayuta +

appeared to confirm the widely held belief that Ayuta was actually Ayodhya (phonetically similar).
A South Korean book comprising fables and historical stories, Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) mentions that Queen Hwang-ok was the princess of "Ayuta" kingdom.

Heo Hwang-ok :

It also says that she was a Legendary Queen and was mentioned in "Samguk yusa" / "Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms" is a collection of legends, folktales and historical accounts relating to the Three Kingdoms of Korea(Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla). It can be true as it is history.

Kim Jong-Pil and Kim Hyun-Chul, son of the late former South Korean president Kim Young-Sam, all come from the Karak dynasty. Former South Korean president Kim Dae-jung and former Prime Minister Kim Jong-pil claim their ancestry to the Karak dynasty.
Historians say, descendants +

of the couple number more than six million, which is roughly about 10% of the South Korean population. But there is no clear evidence to show that the princess even actually existed.
"Her origin story is considered to be mythical and is not considered to be history by academics"

"There have been several fictional renditions of the story as there is plenty of room for imagination."
Stamps showing legendary Indian queen :