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The creation of Korean History: New Edition was motivated by the desire to include new research about Korea in the text, as well as to address perceived shortcomings in the previous version. [1] It was published in 52 volumes, and covers ancient Korea until the 1948 establishment of South Korea.
1145: Kim Bu-sik compiles the Samguk sagi, Korea's oldest extant history text. 1170: Yi Ŭi-bang overthrows Uijong of Goryeo, beginning a century of military rule known as the Goryeo military regime; 1231: The Mongol invasions of Korea begin; 1234: Ch'oe Yun-ŭi's Sangjeong Gogeum Yemun is published, world's first metal-block printed text.
Today, South Korea is a leading economy and a technological powerhouse, rivaling even countries such as the United States in information and communications technology. South Korean pop culture has also boomed abroad in recent years, in a phenomenon known as the Korean Wave.
The Tongguk t'onggam (Korean: 동국통감; RR: Dongguk tonggam; lit. Comprehensive Mirror of the eastern state), is a chronicle of the early history of Korea compiled by Sŏ Kŏjŏng [] (1420–1488) and other scholars in the 15th century.
The phrase "Precious Mirror" (보감 寶鑑) is a metaphorical idiom meaning 'something which can be modeled after'. Meanwhile, the phrase "Eastern Medicine" (동의 東醫) is not the antonym to 'Western Medicine'; "Dongguk" (동국 東國), meaning "Eastern Country," was one of the names of Korea, which means the country to the east of China ...
Samguk sagi is critical to the study of Korean history during the Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla periods. Not only because this work, and its Buddhist counterpart Samguk yusa, are the only remaining Korean sources for the period, but also because the Samguk sagi contains a large amount of information and details.
Park Eun-sik developed Korean history into modern history by inheriting the history of the Gwangmu Reform period and introducing the methodology of modern history, which was in the 1910s, and Hanguk Tongsa(韓國痛史) and "Korean Independence Movement Jihyeolsa (韓國獨立運動之血史)" [32] are his representative works. In these books ...
According to its introduction, the text was compiled in 1911 by Gye Yeon-su (계연수, 桂延壽; died 1920) and supervised by Yi Gi (이기, 李沂; 1848–1909). The entire set of texts, of which the only extant version is a modern transcription by Yi Yu-rip [ ko ] published in 1979, is widely regarded as a forgery among academics.