Koreans - Koreans Koreans form an ethnic group. Most Koreans live in Korea. Korea's population is one of the most ethnically and linguistically homogenous in the world, with the only minorities being very small Chinese communities in South and North Korea, and a very small Japanese one in North Korea. According to 2000 estimates, the population was: North Korea: 21,687,550 South Korea: 47,470,969 China: 1,760,000 The United States: 1,460,000 Japan: 730,000 Russia: 500,000 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Culture 2 Koreans in Central Asia 3 Koreans in China 4 Koreans in Japan 5 Koreans in other countries 6 See also 7.
List of Koreans - List of Koreans Famous Korean people: Note: In Korean names, the family name is placed first (for example, the family name of "Kim Daejung" is "Kim"), unless the person has decided to Westernize his/her name. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Historical Figures 2 Scholars 3 Politicians 4 Businesspeople 5 Artists 6 Film-makers 7 Religious Leaders 8 Scientists and engineers 9 Sportmen and -women Historical Figures Hong Bok-won, officer of the Mongol Empire Wang Go (Öljeitü), King of Shen Yi Jachun, father of King Taejo. Qi Empress, one of empresses of Toghun Temür and mother of Biligtü Khan King Sejong the Great, inventor of Han-geul Yi Sun-sin, admiral Gang Hong-rip, commander-in-chief Gwanghaegun, the 15th king of the Joseon Dynasty Scholars Ju Si-gyeong, linguist Politicians Chang Myon (장면) (Prime.
Kim Jong-il - with Chinese Manchuria, is the highest on the peninsula and the site where Korean legend says the nation came into existence 5,000 years ago. The event was reportedly marked by a double rainbow, and a bright star in the sky. Western researchers, however, believe that Kim was born among some one thousand Chinese and Koreans being trained at a secret base located on the Amur River some 45 miles from the city of Khabarovsk in the Soviet Union. His mother, Kim Jong Suk, a partisan fighter, is thought to have retreated there from her guerrilla base in Manchuria. Kim Jong Il's younger brother drowned as a child and his mother died when he was 7 years old. Shortly after, in 1950, the Korean War broke out and he was sent to.
King Sejong the Great of Joseon - Munjong. Sejongno (a street) and the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts--both located in central Seoul--are named after King Sejong, and he is depicted on the South Korean 10,000-Won note. Further Reading King Sejong the Great: the Light of Fifteenth Century Korea, Young-Key Kim-Renaud, International Circle of Korean Linguistics, 1992, softcover, 119 pages, ISBN 1-882177-00-2 External Link King Sejong's Confucian Humanism in the Early Choson Period See also List of Koreans..
Kim, Yoo-Sin - were commanded by none other than General Ge-Baek, although the Baekje forces consisted of about 5,000 men and were no match for Kim's warriors, which numbered about ten times as many. Baekje, who had been experiencing internal political problems, crumbled. Kim's Silla forces and their Tang allies now moved on Goguryeo from two directions, and in 661 they attacked the seemingly impregnable Goguryeo Kingdom, but were repelled. The attack had weakened Goguryeo, though, and in 667 another offensive was launched which, in 668, destroyed Goguryeo forever. Silla still had to subdue various pockets of resistance, but their efforts were then focused on ensuring that their Chinese allies did not overstay their welcome on the peninsula. After some difficult conflicts, Silla eventually forced out the Tang and united the peninsula under their.
Korean American - sugar plantations. As of 2000 Korean Americans numbered some 1.1 million, with large concentrations in California, New York, and New Jersey. For some notable Korean Americans, see List of famous Korean Americans See also: Koreans Asian American Demographics of the United States.
Korean-Japanese disputes - Korean Government Policies 6 North Korean nuclear weapons claims 7 North Korean kidnapping of Japanese citizens Corea/Korea Some South Koreans claim that Japanese intentionally promoted the spelling of Korea instead of Corea during the colonial era, the reason being that K comes after J in the Latin alphabet. In 1594, the map created by Petrus Plancius of the Netherlands is known to be the oldest existing map in Europe that made reference to Korea with the marking Corea. Dok-do/Takeshima Small uninhabited islets between Japan and Korea, also known as the Liancourt Rocks, which are currently occupied by the Korean navy. Called "Takeshima" in Japanese and "Dok-do" in Korean, their sovereignty has long been disputed among Japan, South Korea, and (less vigorously) North Korea. East Sea/Sea of Japan See Dispute over the.
Korean Buddhism - the third and fourth centuries, as the various tribal leagues gradually developed larger and more stable alliances. The first kingdom to take form was Goguryeo in the northern part of the peninsula. Goguryeo was soon followed by the establishment of Baekje in the southwest and a bit later by Silla in the southeast. During the second half of the fourth century, the Goguryeo king Sosurim (r. 371-383) began to develop close ties with the former Qin, ruled at the time by Fujian (r. 357-384), and these ties further contributed to the reception of culture into the Korean peninsula. The official date for the introduction of Buddhism into Goguryeo is 372, with the dispatch of the monk Sundo (Ch. Shundao) by Fujian to the court of Sosurim with scriptures and Buddhist images..
Korean mythology - Shamanism, though it shows some similarity with the original religion of China & Taoism. There has been a mass conversion to Christianity occur amongst the population since the Korean War. After the Korean War Koreans became embarrassed about their own mythology and though many figures are still alive in the consciousness of the general population, much of the oral tradition about the relationship between the mythological figures has been lost. While Tangun is still remembered as a semi-historical dynasty, much else regarding the family of Gods he descends from has been brushed away from the national consciousness. A prime example of this was during the 88 Olympic Games when there was a crack-down on the genuine local shamans out of embarrassment. There are now very few practicioners of the ancient Korean.
Korea Town (Toronto) - The adoption of a more liberal immigration policy by the Canadian government in 1967 led to an influx of Korean immigrants, many of whom settled in the Toronto area. Indeed, Toronto has the largest single concentration of Koreans in Canada, with over 15,000 living in the Greater Toronto Area, according to the 1996 Census. Many of them settled in the Bloor and Bathurst area, and before long, a small Korean business neighbourhood emerged along Bloor Street, centred around the intersection of Bloor and Manning Avenue. Restaurants, bakeries, gift shops, grocery stores, and travel agencies began to open up, most of which catered to the Korean-Canadian community. See also: Koreatown.
Japan - zensen (梅雨前線) stays above Japan. In the late summer and early autumn typhoons, grown from tropical depressions generated near the equator, track from the south-west to the north-east and often bring heavy rain. Its varied geographical features divide Japan into six principal climatic zones. Hokkaido: Belonging to the cool temperate zone, Hokkaido has long, cold winters and cool summers. Chishima (Kuriru) or Northeast Islands are fogbound. Precipitation is not large. Sea of Japan: The northwest seasonal wind in winters give heavy snowfalls. In summers it is less hot than in the Pacific area but sometimes experiences extreme hot temperature due to the Foehn wind phenomenon. Chuo-kochi or Central highland: A typical inland climate gives large temperature differences between summers and winters and between days and nights. Precipitation is not large throughout.
Japanese people - brown eyes and compared with Westerners, are shorter and thinner. The question of Japanese national identity is tricky. A number of ethnic Korean born and living in Japan regard themselves as Koreans not Japanese, partly because they do not hold Japanese citizenship. Other minorities have ambivalent feelings. Okinawans may distinguish themselves from people in mainland Japan. Theres a small population of a native race called the Ainu, living in Hokkaido who retain their own identity just like the native Americans in the US do. The origin of the Japanese people is a controversial topic among ethnologists. The most accepted theory is that about half of Japanese are from China via the South path and the other half are from the Mongol via the North path. There is some evidence that suggests.
Jizi - Dynasty declined. Last king Zhun (準) was expeled in 192 B.C. by Wei Man, who was a Yan Chinese and had fled to Chaoxian. Zhun fled to the south and proclaimed himself the King of Han (韓). This story seems to have spread to China because of Chinese direct rule of the Korean peninsula. Some trust it and others think it is a fiction. Archaeological evidences suggest that a small city state in Liaoning was ruled by Jihou or Lord Ji under the Yan Kingdom. Jihou may be the model of Jizi. Korea views of Jizi These Chinese stories spread in Korea at the early stage of history. Commanderies and kingdoms controlling northern Korea were regarded as successors of Jizi by the Chinese and Koreans. The Han clan (韓) claimed themselves.
Johann Gutenberg - was born in Mainz as the son of a merchant named Friele Gensfleisch zu Laden, who adopted the surname "zum Gutenberg" after the name of the neighborhood into which the family had moved. Though the Chinese and Koreans knew of block printing and even movable metal types at the time, it is unclear whether Gutenberg knew of these techniques or invented them independently. Some also claim Laurens Coster as the first European to invent movable type. Gutenberg certainly introduced efficient methods into book production, leading to a boom in the production of texts in Europe, in large part due to the popularity of the Gutenberg Bibles, the first mass-produced work, starting on February 23, 1455. The Gutenberg Bibles surviving today are probably the oldest surviving books printed with movable type, though.
Juche tower - consisting of three figures - one with a hammer, one with a sickle and one with a writing brush (an idealised worker, a peasant and a "working intellectual"). There are six smaller stature groups, each 10 metres high, symbolizing other aspects of Kim Il Sung's ideology. Also close to the tower is a wall of 82 friendship plaques, apparently from foreign supporters. Around the tower there are also pavilions and water features. It is claimed that the tower has become a popular pilgrimage site for North Koreans. The tower is named after the principle of juche, developed by Kim Il Sung as a blend of autarky, self-reliance, Korean traditionalism, and Marxism. The name of the tower is sometimes translated as the Tower of the Juche Idea or Juche Ideology Tower..
Ironclad warship - of the Kizu River, Osaka in 1578. They are regarded as floating fortresses rather than warships. The Koreans developed Geobukseon ("Turtle[-shaped] ships") in the 16th century to thwart the repeated attempts by Japan to invade Joseon. The geobukseon--designed by the admiral Yi Sun-sin--were said to be ironclads; however, they were not fully covered but just roofed with iron plates or metal thorns so that enemy soldiers could not take the ships. Modern Ironclads In 1856, the French navy experimented with ironclad floating batteries as a means of reducing the fearsome Russian defenses at Sevastapol. In 1857, the British constructed two similar devices to reduce Russian coastal defenses in Lithuania, but failed to use them before the conclusion of hostilities. While these devices were ironclad, and built on floating "rafts", they had.
Ishihara Shintaro - the US. He dropped out of national politics in 1995. In 1999, he ran on an independent platform and was elected governor of Tokyo. Since then he has undertaken a number of bold and popular moves at the metropolitan government level, such as imposing a new tax on banks' gross profits and holding up a bottle of diesel soot as he restricted the operation of diesel-powered vehicles. At the same time, he has gained notoriety for statements referring to Tokyo-based Chinese and Koreans sangokujin (三国人), an offensive term literally meaning "third-country person." He does, however, say exactly what he thinks, and that is a rarity in present-day Japanese politics..
Hapkido - 3 Training 4 External Links History Hapkido history is rather confused, but many sources attribute it to two Koreans, Choi Yong Sul and Ji Han Jae. As a boy, Choi was sent to Japan and worked as a houseboy for the Aikijutsu master, Takeda Sokaku. Choi proved adept at Aikijutsu, and was often sent by Takeda to meet challenges from other martial artists (another famous student of Takeda, Morihei Ueshiba, went on to found Aikido). On his return to Korea, Choi began to teach martial arts. One of his students, Ji Han Jae, incorporated traditional Korean kicking and punching techniques (from tae kyon and hwarang do) and gave the resulting synthesis the name hapkido in 1959. In addition to the work of Choi and Ji, credit should be given to numerous.
Han - during the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Northern Han during the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Korea, as an abbreviation used by South Koreans. One of the Samhan or three tribes in southern Korea before the Three Kingdoms Period. Han River (Korea) Han-sur-Lesse, Rochefort, Belgium Han, a feudal clan or fief in Japan (See: Abolition of the Han system) Transliteration of Chinese family name 韓,韩,邗,罕,寒,憨 etc..
Hanja - 6 Pronunciation 7 Vocabulary 8 See also 9 External Link 10 References History One of the major impetuses for the introduction of Hanja into Korea was the spread of Buddhism. The major text that introduced Hanja to Koreans, however, was not a religious work but the Cheonjamun or "Thousand-Character Classic." Hanja was the sole means of writing Korean until King Sejong the Great invented Hangeul in the 15th century. However, even after the invention of Hangeul, most Korean scholars continued to write in Hanja. There were some systems developed earlier, to use simplified forms of Chinese characters that phonetically transcribe Korean, namely, Hyangchal (향찰 ; 鄕札), Gugyeol (口訣), and Idu (이두 ; 吏讀), but for the most part Koreans had to learn Literary Chinese to be literate. It was not until.
