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The 2018 South Korean TV series, The Last Empress, depicts a modern-day Korean Empire in an alternate reality along with a dark secret of the imperial family leading to its demise. [ 56 ] The 2020 South Korean TV series, The King: Eternal Monarch , takes place in an alternate reality where the Korean Empire continues to exist in the modern world.
Kim, Jung Bae (1997). "Formation of the ethnic Korean nation and the emergence of its ancient kingdom states". Korean history: Discovery of its characteristics and developments. Seoul: Hollym. pp. 27– 36. ISBN 978-1-56591-177-2. Nahm, Andrew C. (1988). Korea: Tradition and Transformation — A History of the Korean People. Hollym International.
26 December. The end of the Cold War as the Soviet Union collapses and North Korea loses military and economic aid. 1992 11 August. South Korea's first satellite, KITSAT-1, a.k.a. 우리별 (Uri Byol) is successfully launched from Guiana Space Centre. 24 August. South Korea and the People's Republic of China (PRC) establish diplomatic relations.
Liberation of Korea American Marines climbing a sea wall in Incheon during a decisive moment in the timeline of the Korean War At the Cairo Conference on November 22, 1943, the US, UK, and China agreed that "in due course Korea shall become free and independent"; [ 253 ] [ 254 ] at a later meeting in Yalta in February 1945, the Allies agreed to ...
The Goryeo dynasty ruled in Korea from 918 to 1392. It comprised 34 kings in 17 generations. It comprised 34 kings in 17 generations. What follows is, first, a selective genealogy of the reigning Wang clan, [ 1 ] and second, a table showing the relations between the Mongol -led Yuan dynasty and Goryeo royalty.
The Chinese defeat in the 1894 war led to the Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan, which officially guaranteed Korea's independence from its tributary status with China. For Japan, it was a step toward regional hegemony in Korea. After that, Korea built the Independence Gate and stopped paying tributes to the Qing dynasty.
Taejo unified Korea and proclaimed the unification of the "Samhan", or the Three Kingdoms of Korea. [22] Goryeo viewed its Three Kingdoms heritage as nearly on a par with the imperial heritage of China. [6] The conceptual world of the Samhan or the "Three Han"—Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje—constituted a Goryeo tianxia. [53]
Unified Silla, [e] or Late Silla, [f] is the name often applied to the historical period of the Korean kingdom of Silla after its conquest of Goguryeo in 668 AD, which marked the end of the Three Kingdoms period. In the 7th century, a Silla–Tang alliance conquered Baekje in the Baekje–Tang War.