Proud History of Korea – Koguryo
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), an internet-based organization, stated yesterday that 16 well-known educational websites such as Britannica and Wikipedia have included the area of the former Korean kingdom Goguryeo as part of China’s Han Dynasty on their websites. On Britannica’s official website (www.britannica.com/topic/Xiongnu), the area denoted […]
SEOUL, May 15 (Yonhap) — A South Korean civic organization said Tuesday it has found that many renowned world dictionaries and history education websites wrongly mark Korea’s ancient Goguryeo Kingdom as part of the territory of China’s Han Dynasty on their world maps. Goguryeo was the ancestral kingdom (37 B.C.-668 A.D.) that occupied half of […]
“One of the old names of Goguryeo was ‘Guru,’ which meant a ‘castle,’”said Won Jong-seon, head of China Office at HiKorea and a director of the Dalian Korean International School. “This is why mountain castles cannot be left out in explaining Goguryeo’s culture, and also why I became infatuated with the castles, the best place […]
Inmyeonjo (Human-faced bird) Inmyeonjo is a human-faced bird that appears in tomb paintings from Korea http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20180209000978
Mural tombs and murals in tombs of an ancient kingdom scattered across Jian, China, and Pyongyang in North Korea can be seen in Seoul. The Seoul Baekje Museum holds a special exhibition on mural tombs of Goguryeo until Feb. 26. The exhibition will have a mockup of a Goguryeo mural tomb and the replica of […]
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea claims that they have found an ancient royal tomb deep underground in a recluse state. The regime released a rare, English-language statement announcing that local archaeologists discovered the royal burial site of the Goguryeo Dynasty (918-1392) in its border city of Kaesong. The Discovery of the Royal Burial Site […]