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A Comparative Study on Northeast Asian bear-culture Cho, Yoon-Kyoung This thesis attempts to clarify the bear culture already widely spread over the Northeast Asia throughout the history by studying the myth, legends and epics of the ancient races and countries of the Northeast Asia. This study mainly prepares the biar culture of a few small races of the Northeast of China(Elunchunzu, Ewenkezu), the Korean race of Korea. Because the race of these two countries are in the Northeast Asia, it would be obvious that they must have been various significant or insignificant exchanges between them, and therefore, they have the culture of same features: bear totemism, bear respect etc. Through the foregoing study, we can not only understand the procedure of the races of Northeast Asia, but also estimate the process of the cultural development of other races under similar natural environment in the same or different districts, or the development porcess of the whole human race.