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Dongmyeong soldiers have received a total of 5,091 medals over the seven-year deployment. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon , who visited the Dongmyeong Unit on January 17, 2009, said, "It is greatly contributing that your efforts and devotions for peacekeeping of Lebanon which enhance not only peace of the world but status of Republic of Korea .
South Korea's first school corps was born in the Navy. In the case of the Navy, on March 11, 1959, the first school group of the 3rd Army was launched by establishing the Naval Busan Military Education Group (Navy 1001st Student Military Education Group) at Korea Maritime University.
The area around Dongmyeong's grave contains at least fifteen known tombs believed to belong to various vassal lords. The tomb has achieved World Heritage status as part of the Complex of Goguryeo Tombs inscribed by UNESCO in 2004 under Criteria (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) covering an area of 233 hectares (580 acres) with a buffer zone of 1,701 ...
Kiringul (Korean: 기린굴; lit. Kirin's Grotto) is a cave in North Korea said to have been the home of the kirin (Qilin in Chinese), a mythical chimeric beast that was reputedly ridden by King Dongmyeong of Goguryeo in the 1st century BC.
A temple of King Dongmyeong is also mentioned in the Goryeo Dogyeong, a book about the Goryeo dynasty written by a Chinese Song dynasty scholar. As the Goryeo dynasty existed within the Korean Peninsula, conclusions are that there was at least one temple, and probably more, dedicated to King Dongmyeong within the Korean Peninsula. [1]
Dongwon Institute of Science and Technology is a private college located in Yangsan City, South Gyeongsang province, South Korea.
Dongmyeong ilgi (동명일기, Travelogue of Dongmyeong) is a travelogue and miscellany [1] written by Lady Uiyudang (意幽堂) of the Nam clan of Uiryeong (宜寧南氏, 1727–1823) in 1772 (the 48th regnal year of Yeongjo of Joseon), at the age of 46. Written while she was staying in the Hamheung region as the wife of an assistant ...
The K9 Thunder is a South Korean 155 mm self-propelled howitzer designed and developed by the Agency for Defense Development and private corporations including Dongmyeong Heavy Industries, Kia Heavy Industry, Poongsan Corporation, and Samsung Aerospace Industries for the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, and is now manufactured by Hanwha Aerospace. [2]