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  • Hallasan (한라산, 漢拏山), a shield volcano on Jeju Island of ... Alternate names for the mountain include Halla Mountain or Mount Halla ...
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  • a remarkable impact on his mission country, Korea, where he arrived in 1884 ... in China, and hoped for a different experience in Korea. ...
    8 KB (1,205 words) - 15:02, 2 February 2024
  • in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In 1910, Korea had been annexed by the Japanese ... they published the news, and eight members of the newpaper staff were jailed ...
    8 KB (1,228 words) - 15:58, 14 October 2022
  • the period after the legendary arrival of Gija in northern (or in the ... Koreans point to Gija as a co-founder of Korean civilization along ...
    8 KB (1,218 words) - 06:55, 14 December 2022
  • Jirisan (지리산, 智異山) is a mountain in the southern part ... The "ji" in the name of Jirisan or Mt. Jiri is the chinese ...
    12 KB (1,926 words) - 02:03, 9 February 2023
  • #039;s university in central Seoul, South Korea. One of the city's largest ... they had received an invitation to come to Korea as teachers, not missionaries ...
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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 ...
    10 KB (1,470 words) - 22:56, 23 April 2023
  • founded the dynasty, leading the remnants of the Liao Dynasty to Central ... The Khitan people rose from among the northern nomadic tribes of China ...
    11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
  • Gaya refers to a confederacy of chiefdoms in the Nakdong River valley ... The Gaya confederacy became a key component of the Silla dynasty. ...
    15 KB (2,181 words) - 15:40, 5 July 2023
  • 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 (2,275 words) - 04:43, 31 July 2022
  • The Hwarang denotes a military society of expert Buddhist warriors ... The allure of the Hwarang warrior derives from the sense of a righteous ...
    10 KB (1,417 words) - 21:28, 9 February 2024
  • 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
  • The term jade is applied to two different types of rock, nephrite ... During the Stone Age of many cultures, jade was used for axe heads ...
    12 KB (1,830 words) - 08:35, 18 March 2024
  • In Korea, Buddhist temples are abundant. Many of the oldest and most ... ==Brief History of Korean Buddhism== :See Korean Buddhism for more ...
    21 KB (3,080 words) - 04:34, 4 March 2023
  • Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate, an ... The Chaebol originates from Korea's culture and society. Korean ...
    15 KB (2,073 words) - 00:11, 4 December 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 ...
    16 KB (2,364 words) - 22:07, 29 January 2023
  • around fourth century B.C.E. in the basins of the Liao and Taedong Rivers ... Dynasty, also romanized as Chosŏn. See also: Names of Korea. ...
    18 KB (2,662 words) - 09:14, 19 December 2022
  • commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities ... school and weekend programs for students of all ages, including even college ...
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  • and Toshisuke in his youth, was one of the Meiji Era’s most famous ... movement. In 1863, he was chosen to be one of the “Chōshū Five” who ...
    12 KB (1,777 words) - 06:30, 11 March 2024
  • King Gongmin (공민왕 恭愍王1330 – 1374) ruled Goryeo (Korea ... became mentally unbalanced after the death of his wife, and was murdered ...
    14 KB (2,145 words) - 09:05, 20 December 2022

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