Korean HistoryGeography &Nationalism

By. Jina Yun

Location: Coffee at the pointDate: 21th July 2012

The Age of Three KingdomeThe first of 4th C ~ middle of 7th C•Goguryeo•Backje•Shilla•Gaya

Goguryeo• Placed at North highland

region• Cold place• Biggest region of 3 kingdoms• Strong army• Often fought with China

Backje• Second biggest region of 3 kingdoms• Placed at West coast• Formed an alliance with Gaya

kingdom to defence Goguryeo army• Sent scholars to Japan(friendly

relationship)

• 3rd biggest region of 3 kingdoms• Formed a country late• East coast region• Agriculture• Use ironware• Buddhism (to bring a country under the king)• Aristocrat meeting• Often had gotten invasion from Japan• FINALLY United 3 kingdom

Silla

Korean Drama: queen Seon-deok (Silla)

Gaya• Smallest region in 3 kingdoms period• Weakest country• South coast region, productive soil,

produce iron• Be divided “Golden crown Gaya”->

“Big Gaya”• Collapsed by Silla

afTER

Goryeo period

•C 918~1892•Centralist control•1st King=Wang-geon•Often had gotten invasion by Mongol, China

Korean Drama: Tae-jo Wang-Geon(about Goryeo period)

Jo-seon period• 1392~1910• Seong-gye Lee

brought down Goryeo• Often had gotten

invasion by Japan• Encourage agriculture• Adopted confucianism• Weak royal authority• Strong aristocrat• Catholic repression

Turbulence period of Jo-seonEnd of Jo-Seon

INSIDE• Curruption of aristotrat• Uprisings of the farmersOUTSIDE• Crisis of invasion by China, Japan and

Western countries (France, America, Russia)

Catalyst of a closed-door policy

After The Sino-Japanese WarJapan planned to invaded Korea in

stages• Predatory trade• Carried out vaccination & prohibiting

topknots, etc.

Catalyst of Japanese colony age• Empress Myeong-Seong was assassinated by Japanese killers

The Age of Japanese Colony• Aug 1910~15th Aug 1945 • Korea was dominated by Japan for 35years• No Korean name & Language• Plundered resources, people• Many Korean people was killed• Many anti-Japanese movement

By 15th Agu 1945, liberated by World War 2

After Japanese colony period

The Soviet union • Joined vs Japan war late. (9th Aug 1945)• Defeated Japanese army in China(only

few)• Going to South (North Korea)• Mission=disarming Japanese army&

cleaning war (Same with U.S. army)• But they dropped correspondence with

South Korea

• Joined to make N.Korea to be communism with “Ill-Sung Kim”

• 9th Sep 1948 established Democratic people’s republic of Korea

After Japanese colony periodThe U.S. army• Marched on S.Korea to disarming

Japanese army & cleaning war• Strongly opposed enemy force

(Soviet)• Handled to establish S.Korea

government under the UN• 15th Aug 1948 established S.Korea

government 15th Aug : Gwang-bok-Jeol

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