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	infoKorea
		Although the Korean government retreated north in the face of the Japanese threat, Korean peasants banded together to form guerilla forces that turned against the invaders.
		The Korean government, through negotiation and the use of force, quelled the rebellion, but could not convince Japan or China to remove their forces from the peninsula.
		Korean students, disturbed over the state of affairs in the Korean education system, took the lead in the independence movement against Japan.
	myhome.shinbiro.com /~mss1/history.html (4072 words)

	History of Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1392 a Korean general, Yi Seonggye, was sent to China to campaign against the Ming Dynasty, but instead he returned to overthrow the Goryeo king and establish a new dynasty.
		The Provisional Government is considered to be the de jure government of the Korean people between the period 1919 to 1948, and its legitimacy is enshrined in the preamble to the constitution of the South Korea.
		The continuance of Korean culture itself began to be illegal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_history (5609 words)

	Korean History
		The beginnings of Korean history date back to the legendary period of Tan'gun, who is said to have descended from heaven 24 centuries before Christ to found a Utopian tribal state.
		After this dawn of Korean history, the first historically-documented evidence emerges from the first century AD, during the period known as the "three Kingdoms".
		Instead, this would later prove to be a disastrous mistake when North Korean troops, highly experienced, well-trained and armed with the latest Soviet tanks and artillery, poured across the 38th Parallel on June 25, 1950, beginning the Korean War.
	www.cptours.com /history.htm (820 words)

	history
		It encompassed the predominance of the Korean Peninsula - extending from the Chinese border southward.
		At its entrance is a carved statue of the famous Korean warrior, Kum Gang Yuk Sa, from the reign of Korean King Hye Gong (742-762 C.E.).
		Due to the commonplace occurrence of Korean politics being deeply embedded into all aspects of Korean culture, the first President of the organization was, Jo, Young Joo, the head of the Association of Korean Residents in Japan.
	www.scottshaw.com /history (12036 words)

	Korean history from ancient to modern Korea
		In 1392 a Korean general, Yi, Song-gye, was sent to China to campaign against the Ming rulers.
		With the arrival of Japanese and Western traders in the 19th century, the Korean rulers tried to prevent the opening of the country to foreign trade by closing the borders, earning Korea its nickname of the Hermit Kingdom.
		Korean War section gives greater detail about this period, including a day-by-day calendar with historical events, diary entries from people who were there, and period photographs.) Student protests against the corrupt government caused Syngman Rhee to step down as president in 1960.
	asiarecipe.com /korhistory.html (1347 words)

	About Korean Paintings
		At the same time, Korean artists continued to be influenced by the painters of China but were able to transcend the Chinese mold, and develop a stronger sense of native Korean painting.
		Korean paintings began to be based on actual scenes of the Korean countryside or Korean people engaged in common activities.
		Korean painting culture was likewise suppressed by the Japanese in favor of Western or Chinese styles - both of which had been adopted by the Japanese.
	www.korean-arts.com /about_korean_paintings.htm (1564 words)

	Declan's Korean Language Page
		For example, in Korean the imperative "go" can be rendered kara when speaking to an inferior or a child, kage when speaking to an adult inferior, kaseyo when speaking to a superior, and kasipsio when speaking to a person of still higher rank.
		Koreans select one or the other variant to achieve the proper register in speech or in writing, and to make subtle distinctions of meaning in accordance with established usage.
		The subjects and objects of Korean sentences are often marked with a post-fix that is attached to the end of the noun.
	www.declan-software.com /korean.htm (2376 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Feature: Korean American History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fifteen Korean fruit pickers about to start a job in Riverside County, Calif. are surrounded and driven off by a mob of angry unemployed European Americans when they arrive at the train station.
		Korean Americans picket in Los Angeles against U.S. scrap iron and airplane fuel shipments to Japan, marking the first public demonstration in the United States against Japan’s invasion of China.
		Korean American businessman Jay Kim is elected to Congress, representing the 41st District of California.
	www.asianweek.com /2003_01_10/feature_timeline.html (1034 words)

	Korean History:: A Bibliography :::::: [Bibliography Home]
		Korean History: A Bibliography is compiled by Kenneth R. Robinson.
		For studies of South Korea's politics and economy, 1961 is the stopping point; for South Korean foreign relations, coverage continues through the 1965 treaty with Japan and the Vietnam War.
		One drawback to this attempt at simplifying the search for author names is that the spelling accompanying their book in this bibliography does not in all cases match the spelling on the title page of the book.
	www.hawaii.edu /korea/bibliography/biblio.htm (949 words)

	Korean History
		The history of its culture can be seen in the Korean art and architecture that remains today.
		Prehistoric remains found throughout Korea indicate that early in the history of the Korean Peninsula sophisticated technologies were known by these inhabitants.
		Koreans were not allowed to speak their own language or to learn about their history during this time in an effort to obliterate the Korean culture.
	media.graniteschools.org /Curriculum/korea/history.htm (1166 words)

	Korean History On-Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Korean War 'Abductees' Face South Even in Death - Many prominent South Koreans - nationalists, scholars, artists and politicians went north - either on their own or by force - went north during the Korean War.
		Korean Immigrants In America - by By Dr.Hakwon Sunoo (Minjok-Tongshin Special) - Harold Hakwon Sunoo, Ph.D., a native Korean, is C.M.C. Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at Central Methodist College in Missouri.
		He tells of the history of Korean immigration to the United States, of all the early immigrants struggles and hardships and efforts and successes in paving the way for the Korean immigrant community in America today.
	www.kimsoft.com /kr-hist.htm (1417 words)

	Korean History Project - "Where the Past is Always Present"
		The Korean History Project went online October 16, 1997, as an educational effort to research, produce and publish Korean and East Asian history online, to promote history education and cultural understanding, and to make a valuable history resource easily accessible to a worldwide audience.
		Korea in the Eye of the Tiger, the feature presentation, is a full-length book that tells the sweeping saga of East Asian history and the complex relationships among Korea, China, Manchuria, Mongolia, Russia, Japan, Europe, and the United States in their quest for power and influence in Asia.
		The growing influence of Asian culture and the accelerating economic power of the Asian Pacific Rim make it vital to understand the rich history of that part of the world, to learn where nations of the Far East have been and where they may be heading.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org (275 words)

	Korea-Us Aquaculture
		Aquaculture is poised to become an important source of marine protein that Koreans need presently and in the future.
		Crustacean culture in Korean peninsula is primarily of penaeid shrimps and crabs.
		Abalones are one of the most common species cultured widely along the all coasts of Korean peninsula.
	www.lib.noaa.gov /korea/korean_aquaculture/history.htm (1070 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Military History \| Korean War: A Fresh Perspective
		Although born of a misapprehension, the Korean War triggered the buildup of U.S. forces in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), began American involvement in the Vietnam War, and, although seen as an aberration at the time, now serves as the very model for America's wars of the future.
		One reason the importance of the Korean War is not better appreciated is that from the very start the conflict presented confusing and contradictory messages.
		The fact that the U.S. response to both the Korean War and the Vietnam War was built on the false perception of a Communist monolith began to emerge after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
	www.historynet.com /mh/blthekoreanwar (999 words)

	zKorean - Korean History Part I
		A look back at the 5,000 years of Korean history reveals triumphs and tragedies, successes and struggles -- all of which have been instrumental in shaping the Korea and Koreans of today.
		It is unclear as to exactly when human habitation began on the Korean Peninsula, but the Korean foundation myth dates back to 2333 B.C. when Tan-gun, a mythical half-divine, half-human being, supposedly founded the nation from which all Koreans are descended, providing Koreans with a sense of identity as one people.
		5000-1000 B.C.) that the nomadic tribes from the continent who were the racial and ethnic ancestors of the modern Korean people came to the Peninsula, although these original tribes intermingled with or were assimilated by other nomadic tribes who were to arrive from the continent later, particularly during the Bronze Age (c.
	www.zkorean.com /history.shtml (271 words)

	Korean War History
		In initial stages of the war, North Korea's troops overwhelmed South Korean forces and drove them to a small area in the far South around the city of Pusan.
		United Nations troops drove the North Koreans back past the 38th parallel and continued on toward the Yalu River border of North Korea and China.
		Korean War is the best Korean War information resource on the Internet.
	www.korean-war.info /history (1285 words)

	KoreaWeb.ws - Your Information Gateway to Korea: Research, Art, News, Publications, Jobs, Youth, Women
		The development of this database was largely made possible through the close collaboration of the Academy of Korean Studies, Kyujanggak Archives of Seoul National University, National Institute of Korean History, and Korean Classics Research Institute.
		The Academy of Korean Studies (Han'guk Chôngsin Munhwa Yôn'guwôn) offers a fastly growing number of databases with a wide range of data and documents accessible via the Web: Visit their Electronic Korean Studies Library.
		The "Korean American Digital Archive" at the University of Southern California is a searchable database that includes more than 11,000 pages of documents and over 1300 photographs, documenting the Korean American experience.
	koreaweb.ws /18_history.html (702 words)

	Korea's History (Ko-Choson, Three Kingdoms, Parhae Kingdom, Unified Shilla, Koryo Dynasty, Colonial Period, ...
		The eastern bowmen had a myth in which the legendary founder Tan-gun was born of a father of heavenly descent and a woman from a bear-totem tribe.
		There were other tribes of eastern bowmen, the Yemaek on the Manchurian area and the Han on the Korean Peninsula, all of whom belonged to the Tungusic family and linguistically affiliated with the Altaic.
		Not long after the establishment of the four commanderies, however, the Korean attacks became fierce and the last of the commanderies, Lolang (Korean: Nangnang) was destroyed by Koguryo in 313.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/korea/history.htm (444 words)

	GKN-LA: Overseas Korean history
		This is a collaborative project on the history of overseas Korean communities, from 1850 to the present.
		History of Early Korean Emigration to Russia: Russian-Korean Negotiations in Kyonghŭn in 1869-1870
		German Nikolaevich Kim, chair of the Korean Studies Department at Kazakhstan State University, and Steven Sunwoo Lee, former U.S. Fulbright Fellow to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (2001-02).
	www.gkn-la.net /main/projects/history/history_project.htm (2162 words)

	Korean War History - 12 Volumes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It begins with the last weeks of the pell-mell rush of United Nations forces to the Chinese border and goes on to describe in great detail the test of American military leadership and resources posed by the taxing retreat of the Eighth Army and X Corps across the frozen wastes of North Korea.
		The oral history technique, which Army historians did much to develop in World War II and later, is now an accepted historical method.
		In the early weeks of the Korean War, most American military units experienced problems as the U.S. Army attempted to transform understrength, ill-equipped, and inadequately trained forces into an effective combat team while at the same time holding back the fierce attacks of an aggressive and well-prepared opponent.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /korean_war_history.html (1991 words)

	Korean History:: A Bibliography :::::: [ARCHAEOLOGY]
		"The Analyses of Plain and Red-painted Polished Korean Pottery Sherds Excavated at Yangp'yong, Chewon-gun County, Ch'ungch'ong Pukto Province: A Study of the Nam-Han River Valley Culture (II)." Tonga munhwa 21 (1983:11): 153-173.
		"Analyses of Plain and Red-Painted Polished Korean Pottery Sherds Excavated at Yangp'yong-ni, Chewon-gun County, Ch'ungch'ong Pukto Province." In Ch'oe Mongyong, Shin Sukjong, and Yi Tongyong, eds.
		“Korean Archaeology for the 21st Century: From Prehistory to State Formation.” Seoul Journal of Korean Studies 14 (2001): 116-148.
	www.hawaii.edu /korea/bibliography/archaeology.htm (5821 words)

	Korean History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Korea refers to the former country and ancient civilization on the Korean peninsula in East Asia.
		The Korean people are a homogeneous ethnic group, speaking the distinct Korean language and using the unique script Hangul.
		During the Period of Japanese Rule, a self-professed Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea was established in Shanghai.
	www.koreanhistory.info (572 words)

	KOREAN WAR HISTORY
		Examining the Korean War is designed to educate readers about the Korean War and to offer resources for learning and research.
		The Korean War: 1950 - 1953 provides many resources for veterans, relatives, historians, and others interested in the war and its continuing legacy.
		The Korean War web site has extensive information on the history of the war and the infantry weapons used.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_korea.php3 (471 words)

	Korean American History
		Most Korean children were enrolled in school immediately, and within a few years, over half attended private schools, eventually including a Korean boarding school.
		As a result, Koreans who had dreamed of working out their own destiny were again dominated - by the United States in what became South Korea, and by the Soviet Union in North Korea.
		Korean Americans sent food and clothing, but for most people in America the Korean War was little understood, despite the spilling of American blood.
	arirangeducation.com /main/korean_american_history.htm (2185 words)

	Korean War \| Korean Conflict \| Korean War History \| Questia.com Online Library
		Without it, neither the Korean War of 1950-1953 nor the present war...and about its application in the Korean War, brought the United States to the...clarify the...
		In the Korean War it was the foundation for successes...Korea.
		Americans think of the Korean War as death and hardship in the bitter...could not...
	www.questia.com /library/history/asian-history/korea/korean-war.jsp (750 words)

	Korean War
		Finally, on 27 July 1953, with a new regime in the USSR and the blunting of a final Communist offensive, negotiations concluded and fighting ended.
		During the rest of 2000 and into 2001, our Korean War section will be expanded to provide images of the entire scope of U.S. Navy involvement in the conflict.
		He had been killed by North Korean artillery while his ship, USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729) was bombarding enemy positions on Wolmi-do island, Inchon, on 13 September 1950.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/kowar/kowar.htm (1527 words)

	Korean War History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Korean War accounting effort remains a high priority for the U.S. Government.
		Those that could not be identified and other unknowns from South Korea, a total of 848, were buried in 1956.
		The North Koreans co-mingled the remains and the associated personal effects.
	www.dtic.mil /dpmo/koreanwar/korean_history.htm (495 words)

	Quartermaster Korean War History
		The U. Army Quartermaster Museum at Fort Lee, Virginia is a Korean War Commemorative Community.
		An exhibit, "Korea: The Quartermaster Story" opened at the museum on 21 June 2000.
		Short history of Airborne operations and QM assumption of Aerial Delivery mission
	www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil /korea (323 words)

	Overseas Korean History Project - From Dosan & the Overseas Independence Movement to the Present
		Overseas Korean History Project - From Dosan and the Overseas Independence Movement to the Present
		Professor of Korean History, Inha University (Inchon, Korea)
		By the end of the 1950s, it was believed that around 100 of the original immigrants were still alive and
	www.gkn-la.net /overseas_korean_history.htm (700 words)

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