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Locations of all known Korean creation narratives. Korean creation narratives are Korean shamanic narratives which recount the mythological beginnings of the universe.They are grouped into two categories: the eight narratives of mainland Korea, which were transcribed by scholars between the 1920s and 1980s, and the Cheonji-wang bon-puri narrative of southern Jeju Island, which exists in ...
This is a list of Korean inventions and discoveries; Koreans have made contributions to science and technology from ancient to modern times. In the contemporary era, South Korea plays an active role in the ongoing Digital Revolution , with one of the largest electronics industries and most innovative economies in the world.
A South Korean military official cited 3 stage success. DPRK confirmed. 19 December. Park Geun-hye, a daughter of Park Chung Hee, is elected as first female and the 11th president of South Korea. 2013 8 December. Jang Song-thaek, uncle of North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, was ousted from all powerful posts on various charges. The official Korean ...
The Korean language was banned, and Koreans were forced to adopt Japanese names, [248] [note 5] [249] and newspapers were prohibited from publishing in Korean. Numerous Korean cultural artifacts were destroyed or taken to Japan. [250] According to an investigation by the South Korean government, 75,311 cultural assets were taken from Korea ...
Pages in category "South Korean inventions" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The first foreign record of Korean is the Jilin leishi, written in 1103 by a Chinese Song dynasty writer, Sūn Mù 孫穆. [10] [11] It contains several hundred items of Goryeo-era Korean vocabulary with the pronunciation indicated through the use of Chinese characters, and is thus one of the main sources for information on Early Middle Korean ...
Pages in category "Korean inventions" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Practitioners of Korean shamanism are usually female, though male shamans do exist as well. [25] Korean shamans of either gender can be called mudang or mansin, while paksu is a term only for a male shaman. [25] The two main ways one becomes a shaman are either hereditarily, or by suffering through mubyŏng ("spirit possession sickness").