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| Conservation status | FAO (2007): not at risk |
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| Country of origin | Korea |
| Use | formerly draught, now meat |
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| Coat | brown |
| Horn status | horned in both sexes |
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| Hanwoo | |
| Hangul | 한우 |
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| Hanja | 韓牛 |
| Revised Romanization | Hanu |
| McCune–Reischauer | Hanu |
The Hanwoo (Korean: 한우), also Hanu or Korean Native, is a breed of small cattle native to Korea. It was formerly used as a draught animal, but this use has almost disappeared. It is now raised mainly for meat. It is one of four indigenous Korean breeds, the others being the Chikso, the Heugu and the Jeju Black.
The Hanwoo was traditionally a draught breed. Until the expansion of the South Korean economy in the 1960s it was little used for beef production. A herd-book was established in 1968. Hanwoo beef has since become a premium product.
The Hanwoo was listed by the FAO as "not at risk" in 2007. In 2003 the total population was reported to be about 1 240 000; in 2014 it was reported as 2 670 000.
It was suggested in 2001 that the Hanwoo is a hybrid between taurine and indicine cattle. A study in 2010 found it to be closely related to two taurine breeds, the Holstein and the Japanese Black, and distinctly different from the indicine Nellore and Zwergzebu. In 2014, single-nucleotide polymorphism analysis found Korean cattle to form a distinct group with the Yanbian breed of China, separate from European taurine breeds and distant from the indicine group.
The Hanwoo is a small breed. The coat is brown; both sexes are horned. Cows have good maternal qualities, but milk production is low, little more than 400 l in a lactation of 170 days. The cattle are fed rice straw as their principal source of roughage.
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