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  • 神市) literally means "the city of god(s)/spirit(s)" where ... Shinshi (or Sinsi) holds a special place in the minds of Koreans North ...
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  • Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate, an ... The Chaebol originates from Korea's culture and society. Korean ...
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  • served as the twenty-sixth and final king of the five-century long Korean ... an heir. The Dowager Queen Sinjeong, mother of King Heonjong, the king before ...
    17 KB (2,290 words) - 20:45, 31 December 2021
  • primarily in the newly independent states of Central Asia. Large Korean ... List of Korean family names|Cyrillization of Korean Many Korean surnames ...
    27 KB (3,743 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
  • The Silla dynasty, emerging in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula ... Shilla, numbered among the Three Kingdoms of Korea. Beginning as a chiefdom ...
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  • from 1351 until 1374. He was the second son of King Chungsuk( 충숙 忠肅王 ... became mentally unbalanced after the death of his wife, and was murdered ...
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  • A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that ... Chinese surnames have served a number of sociological purposes throughout ...
    26 KB (3,907 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
  • Korea has one of the longest continuous histories of any kingdom or ... Korea (Korean: 한국 in South Korea or 조선 in North Korea, see ...
    31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
  • Сахалина/Koreytsi Sakhalina; Korean: 사할린 한국인/Sahallin ... : See also List of Korean family names and Cyrillization of Korean. ...
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  • term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ... The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ...
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  • Korea's first religion, the religion of Dangun, the mythical founder ... in Korea has remained a vital force in Korean civilization from 2333 B ...
    34 KB (5,119 words) - 03:57, 8 December 2022
  • South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ...
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  • August 660 C.E.), a kingdom in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula originally ... Onjo of Baekje, the son of Goguryeo's founder Jumong, founded ...
    27 KB (3,640 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
  • Gyeongju is a city (see Subdivisions of South Korea) and prominent ... Gyeongju was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla, a fact to ...
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  • until 1910, lasted for five centuries as one of the world's longest running ... Shortly following the declaration of the Korean Empire in 1897, the ...
    39 KB (5,704 words) - 03:49, 6 August 2022
  • from 538 to 710, was a period in the history of Japan during which the capital ... during the Asuka period, borrowing systems of political and social organization ...
    34 KB (5,124 words) - 18:29, 19 August 2023
  • ) is a logogram used in writing Chinese, Japanese, sometimes Korean ... parts where one indicates a general category of meaning and the other the sound ...
    55 KB (8,141 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
  • Japan. This festival is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar ... festival. These cakes, named after the shape of the full moon, reflects the ...
    32 KB (4,726 words) - 17:31, 9 November 2022
  • Kim Jong-il or Kim Jong Il (/ˌkɪm dʒɒŋˈɪl/; Korean: 김정일; ... become the heir apparent for the leadership of the Democratic People's ...
    64 KB (9,034 words) - 23:07, 3 March 2023
  • An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...
    44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023

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