KOREA

“LAND OF THE
MORNING CALM”
Land area: 221,000
sq. km
 North korea:120. 538
sq. km, (Pyongpyang)

South korea: 98, 484

sq. km.(Seoul)
GEOGRAPHY

MOUNTAIN
RANGES
 RICE  Korea also rich
 CORN in mineral
 WHEAT resources
including coal
 BARLEY and iron,
 COTTON especially in
 SOYBEAN north.
 NORTH KOREA  SOUTH KOREA
NO RELIGION
NO RELIGION AFFLIATION(46%)
ALLOWED
CHRISTIAN 29%

BUDDHISM 23%
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TANGUN (king of Korean
2333bc)- mythological first
king of the Koreans, the
ground son of hwanin, the
creator, and the son of
hwanung.

It was Tangun who gave the

name Chosun(Land of the
morning calm) to the country.
When a bear and a tiger
expressed a wish to become
human beings, he ordered the
beasts into a cave for 100 days
and gave orders that they were to
eat only mugwort and garlic and
avoid the sunlight. The tiger soon
grew impatient and left the cave,
but the bear remained and after
three weeks was transformed into
a beautiful woman. It was she
who became the mother of
Tangun..
 12th century bc, another tribe of Korean from
the area near Beijing china, moved to east and
established a new country succeeding Tangun
Chosun. Descendants of this tribal Koreans still
live in china today.
 The Chinese Han dynasty attacked korea and
overthrow the last Tangun hosun in 108 BC.
The northwest area of korea was occupied by
china until 313 ad but three independent
Koreans kingdoms ruled the other territory of
korea.
3 KINGDOM
OF KOREA:
GOGUERYO(KOGORYO)

BAEKJE(PAECHE)

(SILLA(SHILLA)
 Shilla kingdom one of the
three kingdoms, unified
the Korean peninsula and
reigned from 668 to 935
ad. During the two
century of shilla
supremacy(power)
Korean arts and sciences
flourished, as a very
different civilization from
the chiniesse, however
from the china xame
buddhism and other
influence in their culture.
 WONG KUN

FOUNDER OF
KORYO
DYNNASTY
 a new kingdom
succeeded unified silla
under the leadership of
Wang Kong) a Korean
patriot, who led a
revolution in 918 ad and
destroyed the silla rule
in 935 AD. It was wang
kon who gave the
country its modern
name koryo, his
descendants ruled until
1392.