Thread 18138892

I know next to nothing about korean history, what're your favorite parts?

I like the part where Americans liberated the southern part of the peninsula from Commies and made Tankies seethe to this very day

>>18138895
Wonder how the North Korean cultural revolution was like

>>18138892 (OP)
During the Korean Three Kingdoms Period, the King of Silla had a bodyguard of archers called the Hwarang (Flower Youths). To join this prestigious formation you have to be born from nobility and be twink af.

>>18138909
>the King of Silla had a bodyguard of archers called the Hwarang (Flower Youths)

>>18138909
Was it just localized to Silla? How'd the common people perceive them?

>>18138914
Do you really think there's any records about how the commoners thought in the orient?

>>18139435
Are there north south differences in the interpretation of Korean history

>>18138892 (OP)
>what're your favorite parts?
The 2 periods when they dealt extensively with japan: Yayoi and colonial period

>>18139446
What happened during the Yayoi period

>>18138895
>I like the part where Americans liberated the southern part of the peninsula from Commies and made Tankies seethe to this very d-ACK

Glowie posts a Muslim as himself.
May Saint Terry Davis be upon him.

>>18138892 (OP)
During the Three Kingdoms Period, one of the warring Korean states Silla allied with Tang to destroy it's competitor. Think it was Balhae. Silla was the ultimate beneficiary as it swallowed up all that extra land and Chinese manpower did a lot of the world.

Then when the Tang tried to turn Silla into a proper annexed state Silla fought back and got the better status of independent tributary. It's like shit straight out of a Paradox campaign. Use your allies to win your wars of conquests for you.

>>18138892 (OP)
My favorite era where Mongols and Manchus rape many Korean man

>>18139530
Lmaoo were the rulers really that smart? Wonder what the Tang thought about it

>>18138901
>Wonder how the North Korean cultural revolution was like
Lol, the Best Korea is an absolute monarchy and doesn't need Mao autism.

>>18139594
Is the future of monarchy going to be communist

>Korean history
Zzzzzz...

>>18139618
90% of korean history is probably a bunch of civil wars

>>18138892 (OP)
speaking as a korean, korean history is genuinely boring af, just learn about chinese history instead it's way more interesting

>>18138892 (OP)
>what're your favorite parts
Don't be sad it failed, be happy that it happened.

>>18138892 (OP)
>Be Korean King
>Son is mentally-ill
>Can't stop randomly killing people and raping maids
>He's also your only surviving son
>He's the Crown Prince
>Crown Prince is absolutely bonkers and will stir shit up and ruin the Kingdom if he ascends the throne
>Only hope is Crown Prince dies and his son, your grandson, to take over
>Crown Prince commits enough crimes he really should be executed
>But Confucian and Korean law says if the son commits a crime, the father should also be executed. And the wife. And the son.
>"Oh shit. If I order his execution, I'll legally have to kill myself and my grandson. Fuck."
>Genius loop hole idea.
>Delay execution/trial.
>Order son to climb into a rice chest. He can't refuse or else the father can discipline for being an un-filial son.
>Tie the chest up with rope. Move it to the attic.
>Don't feed him.
>Everyone in the palace can hear the Crown Prince begging for food.
>After 7 days the cries stop. He's dead by the morning of the 8th day.
>History loves you for being a wise but cruel king.
Yeongjo of Joseon and the Crowned Prince Sado Affair

>>18139663
>he climbed into the box of his own free will
>not my fault he failed to feed himself
>the charges, officer?
Is spirit of the law a Western concept or was he just that much of a nigger that no one cared?

during khitan times the eldest son of Yelu Abaoji became king of Balhae, the tungusic-koreanic kingdom
it was beautiful time for north easterners

>>18139663
that was in fact a reason for China having historically low crime rates. if one committed a crime he and all of his immediate relatives were put to death.

>>18139663
This sounds like the type of shit that's so dumb but real at the same time ahahahaha

>>18139461
Many Koreanic and other non-Han immigration

>>18139663
Would get rid mentally-ill daughter and exile the mothers

>>18138909
There's even a martial art called "Hwarang Do". Literally, "Way of the Twink". LOL!

>>18139998
That explains why all east asians look effeminate

>>18138892 (OP)
Silla's unification wars are pretty interesting. I learnt a lot about Korea from playing Empire Earth II campaign, lol. Even wanted to learn Korean for some time.

>>18140322
Did you play as the rulers? What'd you like about the period the most

>>18140325
>Did you play as the rulers?
You play starting with the legendary first king Tangun Wanggom and transition to playing as kings of Silla uniting Korea.

I think this anon summed it up nicely >>18139530

By the far the most interesting period of Korean history is probably the Seven Years war or Imjin war which Koreans love to make games about.

>>18140334
>Imjin war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odu_wmOfyRU
>>18140322
>EE2
Lost my disc, great games.

>>18140334
that's super cool! do the rulers die and stuff ingame
what was the seven years war? isn't the imjin one in the 1800s

>>18138892 (OP)
Arguably, the best archers in history. Even to this day, they dominate the Olympics.

>>18139633
but Chinese history is boring too......Emperor, eunuchs, famine, revolt, cannibalism, rinse, repeat.

>>18139694
>China having historically low crime rates
doubt.

>>18141213
>European history
>look inside
>invaded by other religions and regions
>chimpout

>>18139615
Gommunism, republic, democracy are just memes. The Best Koreans understand that.

>>18141572
Only in Korea can they make the most dystopian communist AND capitalist state

>>18141574
>Only in Korea can they make the most dystopian communist AND capitalist state

>>18138892 (OP)
When Japs took comfort women during the occupation and WWII.
Kimmycels still seethe to this day.

>>18141837
Why is there somebody who chimps out every 500 years?
Japan, Mongolia

>>18141989
Why did North Korea (1950), India (1961) and Indonesia (1976) chimp out?

>>18141359
In fact there are ample records about this kind of data there dating back centuries.

>>18141997
Post it wtf

>>18141213
How?
>>18141589

Korea is really cringe and an extremely fucked up country, but China needs to be completely separated and contained

>>18141837
What the fuck is that creature?

>>18143205
A Korean goddess. You like?

>>18143243
Nigga that's a lab-grown homunculus

>>18138892 (OP)
Didn't they repel the Mongols like 7 or 8 times? Too lazy to confirm. But that sounds badass.

>>18143271
Wasn't that Japan or Vietnam
>>18143243
Plastic surgery country

>>18143636
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasions_of_Korea

>>18143690
Oh they won in the end
But like... they lost several times right? Otherwise they would've stayed, I mean the Mongols annexed conquered territory
Unless they won every time and just took over very slowly e_e
All this wondering but I refuse to reread this article.

>>18143703
The mongols were not defeated. They failed to take any strongholds but the Korean army also refused to take the fight to the mongols, whereas the entire civilian populace took the blunt of the military defense. Nothing was capitalized. The mongols took leave on the pretense of Korean fealty and the Koreans immediately took to rearming themselves after each war.

In general the Koreans actually won more battles then the Mongols but it was often offset by a more significant defeat afterwards.

>>18143690
How did the Chinese cope with being conquered by barbarians

>>18143950
The chinese man knew that there were endless hordes of demonic barbarians churning all around them. They just figured that the dark days had finally come to pass.
Chinese people understood the dynastic cycle, it wasn't a secret. No sense in fighting against the mandate of heaven, even if it's being held by a manchu or something.

>>18144601
This sounds like masochism desu

>>18144664
Well they weren't into a position to practice sadism, their empire got decapitated by disgusting monster people