Proud History of Korea – Koguryo
Seoul decided to launch a taskforce and step up countermeasures to cope with Beijing’s alleged attempt to distort the history of Koguryo, an ancient Korean kingdom, officials said Friday. South Korea’s Prime Minister Lee Hai-chan, presiding over an inter-ministerial policy coordination meeting, instructed the Foreign Ministry and other relevant ministries to set up a working-level […]
Fight over Goguryeo flares The Foreign Ministry reacted strongly yesterday to what it called “the distortion of Goguryeo history” by the Chinese government and press. Goguryeo was a kingdom that held sway in northeastern China and the northern part of the Korean peninsula from 37 B.C. to 668. Chinese scholars, to the horror of both […]
Korean burial tomb wall paintings from the Goguryeo-era located in what is now China’s Jillin Province are missing and appear to have been removed by grave robbers ahead of their designation as World Heritage by UNESCO next year. Part of one of the two sites had already been raided in 1996. ‘It is so serious […]
[Student Corner] Battle Against Distorting History By Lee Eung-hoon “Why should I study Korean history?” Maybe many students asked the question when they were in high school. But, now I think that only a few know the reason. You probably also know that our history is faced with a big problem. It’s time to have […]
North Korea’s national treasure-class Goguryeo artifacts have arrived in Seoul. Sixty Goguryeo artifacts, including 15 national treasure-class artifacts belonging to the Chosun Central History Museum, reached Seoul via a Kumgang Mountain tourism course (road number seven) on April 22. These relics will be exhibited in a ‘Special Goguryeo Exhibition’ (running from May 7 to July […]
The Korea Institute at Harvard University will host an international forum on the Koguryo Kingdom and its culture from April 5-7, the Korea Foundation has announced. The purpose of “The Harvard Conference on Koguryo History and Archeology” is to facilitate the introduction of Koguryo-based studies in English and provide a further foundation for the field. […]