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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 ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 19:34, 25 November 2023
- 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 ...8 KB (1,121 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- 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) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- The government of South Korea is the latest fruit of a long development ... which exist in most of the large cities of South Korea, come below those ...18 KB (2,456 words) - 08:15, 24 May 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 04:55, 3 November 2025
- Jeju-do (transliterated Korean for Jeju Province, short form of Jeju ... For most of the island's history, Jeju-do had little contact ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 09:24, 23 December 2024
- 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) - 09:25, 23 December 2024
- 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 (2,741 words) - 12:54, 30 April 2026
- 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 ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 12:47, 24 January 2023
- 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 ...25 KB (3,283 words) - 19:52, 6 March 2024
- Philip Jaisohn (b. January 7, 1864 in Boseong County, Korea - d. January ... gain American citizenship. He returned to Korea twice more in service of ...15 KB (2,200 words) - 17:30, 25 May 2025
- and activist during the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. He served in the national ... Kim Ok-gyun, in another time, would likely have been the founder of ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 09:08, 6 June 2024
- believed to have formed the Kim royal clan of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms ... Kim is now family name of roughly 20 percent of the population of ...16 KB (2,512 words) - 19:06, 17 July 2025
- is the second highest mountain in North Korea, with its highest peak, Pirobong ... life-giving beauty. Long considered a source of particular power and spiritual ...19 KB (2,829 words) - 20:50, 7 March 2025
- medieval Korean noble and politician of the early Joseon dynasty. He ... in the court. Neo-Confucian scholars in Korea, motivated by a desire to ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- 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 (2,861 words) - 04:02, 3 November 2025
