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  • Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom, located in ... The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the turning away from communism ...
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  • The Complex of Goguryeo Tombs lies in North Korea. In July 2004, UNESCO ... The Complex of Goguryeo Tombs provides a rare glimpse into the national ...
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  • South Korea or Republic of Korea, is located in East Asia at approximately ... Surrounded on its other three sides by water, South Korea has 2,413 ...
    14 KB (2,131 words) - 17:54, 15 January 2021
  • many nations have invaded and occupied Korea, and some have left their ... Although a variety of different Asian peoples had migrated to the ...
    14 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 6 March 2024
  • (soccer) tournament held every two years in South Korea. The eight-team event ... by Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, who ...
    12 KB (1,783 words) - 07:06, 23 November 2022
  • Jeju-do (transliterated Korean for Jeju Province, short form of Jeju ... For most of the island's history, Jeju-do had little contact ...
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  • Won Buddhism, Wonbulgyo, a compound of the Korean won (circle) and ... enlightenment in 1916 and had a precognition of the world entering an era of ...
    8 KB (1,141 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
  • government suppression on Jeju Island, South Korea, beginning April 3 ... The detested Japanese occupation of Korea, which began in 1910, finally ...
    12 KB (1,861 words) - 04:44, 31 July 2022
  • Transportation in South Korea refers to all modes of transportation ... by adopted Western technology, annexed Korea in 1905 and carried out a ...
    22 KB (2,978 words) - 16:03, 31 October 2023
  • , is the largest port city in the Republic of Korea. With a population of ... Busan became Korea’s first international port in 1876. Busan was ...
    19 KB (2,764 words) - 03:33, 7 December 2022
  • Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo (374-413, r. 391-413) was the nineteenth ... Today, King Gwanggaeto the Great is regarded by Koreans as one of ...
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  • archaic Korean for "the great middle (of autumn)"), is a major ... respect to their ancestors and share a feast of Korean traditional food such ...
    17 KB (2,442 words) - 22:00, 10 December 2023
  • Seoul, the capital of South Korea, sits on the Han River (Korea) in ... Seoul, one of the world's most densely populated major cities ...
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  • medieval Korean noble and politician of the early Joseon dynasty. He ... in the court. Neo-Confucian scholars in Korea, motivated by a desire to ...
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  • as the dominant figure in the Republic of Korea's history and particularly ... nation builder, rapidly modernizing the South through export-led growth ...
    19 KB (2,859 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
  • Gyeongju is a city (see Subdivisions of South Korea) and prominent ... Gyeongju was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla, a fact to ...
    25 KB (3,647 words) - 14:22, 14 December 2021
  • Unified Silla (668 – 935) refers to the unification of the Three ... Due to the north-south split during this period of Korean history ...
    16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:42, 11 November 2022
  • Hunebed, quoit, and portal dolmen) is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb ... Found in many parts of the world, the numerous still standing dolmens ...
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  • South Korea's contemporary culture has been shaped by the passionate ... The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...
    25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
  • Korea has one of the longest continuous histories of any kingdom or ... Korea (Korean: 한국 in South Korea or 조선 in North Korea, see ...
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