Korea & Brake

Ahn Jung - geun is the most famous person for Koreans among the independence activists active during Japanese colonial era. He killed Ito Hirobumi, who was the greatest chief of Japanese politics at that time and the 1st governor of the Joseon Dynasty, in Harbin, China 1909. Ahn Jung-geun showed resolute attitude until his death in March 1910 after being tried by a Japanese court, because of thi..

Late Joseon in the late 19th century was a very confusing period both internally and globally. The Western powers cleared the internal issues and completed the transformation from the existed feudalism to the modern state. They turned their eyes to the other world and concentrated to the colonization enthusiastically. In the East Asia, the Qing Dynasty had a lot of internal rebellion and frequen..

Among the representative scholars of the Joseon Dynasty, there are Toegye Yi Whang and Yulgok Lee yi in the mid of Joseon, and Dasan Jeong Yakyong is in the late Joseon. During 18 years of exile in the Gangjin area, he left many books in various fields and left a mark on a vast field to call his studies 'Dasan Studies'. Joseon was a country where the Confucian order functioned as a national gove..

With the rapid development of the Internet and mobile, it has become an era in which it is easy to find out the current location and destination with the smartphone in our hand. Navigation is the quickest and easiest way to go where you want. The basis of all these things is the map. Map has become indispensable tool in life, like air, but it is easy to overlook about its importance so we don’t ..

Jamsil Songpa-Gu, which is located in the eastern part of Seoul, was once an island. The Sincheon River, which is the stem of the Han River in the north, and the Songpa River in the south, passed through the area and administrative district was belong to Gangbuk(the district north of the Han River). As the development of Gangnam(south of the Han River) in the 1970s, the Sincheon River was widene..

Lim Kkeokjeong was one of the big 3 thieves of Joseon dynasty and acted in the time of Myeongjong reign (1521 ~ 1562). With another man, Hong Gil Dong, he is one of the 100 great men appeared in the song. He gave vicarious satisfaction to general people at that time through solving the mind that was suppressed by a status system. They are being worshipped by people as a righteous outlaw, and he ..

Haengjusanseong Fortress is an earthen rampart made of clay in the Deokyangsan ridge where Siege of Haengju, which was famous for the best 3 great victories, was occurred during the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592. It was not used as an administrative district in the Joseon Dynasty like Jinju Castle which was made of stone. It was presumed to have been used until the Goryeo dynasty after it w..

The battle of Jinju created 2 great men. One is General Kim Simin, who has already been introduced, and the other is Non Gae. In 1592, although General Simin was gunned down by a Japanese soldier in the first battle of Jinju, but he gave big shock to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japan's first powerful man, as it was the biggest victory against Japan. In 1593, the second year of the Japanese Invasion of K..

Seoul was the capital of the Joseon Dynasty for 500 years and is now the capital of the Republic of Korea, therefore many historical sites are scattered throughout. There are the royal palaces of the Joseon Dynasty and the royal tombs in the middle of the downtown area and the residential area where people gathered from ancient times are known as a cultural property. During the Joseon Dynasty, S..

If you ask the Koreans what they should boast about Korea to the world, many people would refer to Hangul. Hangul is a character that King Sejong promulgated in 1446 to solve the problem of language that Chinese characters was difficult to express Korean perfectly and it took a lot of time to learn. You can express Korean perfectly with 14 consonants and 10 vowels. Foreigners also can read Hangu..