tangbein it could totally work though, in ghost of Tsushima you're a samurai, but in assasins creed you could be a ninja (or in the games case, one of the shinobi) since historically the ninjas did exactly that, assasinations and other stealth operations
He fought 300+ ships without the Turtle ship. Turtle ship was destroyed prior to that battle by inept Generals who took over Yi's command while he was imprisoned for disobeying idiot King's order that'd have jeopardized his fleet.
The truth is that he was merely a commander, not an admiral; only temporality cut off logistics; killed no samurai commander; gave a mastery of the sea to the Japanese; allowed them to land and capture the prince; attacked the Japanese from the back after ceasefire; was killed by the Japanese in the battle.
@@Xentradi97 So says your stupid manga? You can talk about any fantasy if you do not have to back up. He was NEVER an admiral. He was merely a commander of a fleet, not even a commodore of the Korean Navy if you had it at all, let alone an admiral of the Ming-Korea Navy. Most Koreans cannot even swim well even today, and you never had a blue water navy. You are a land people.
@Zero64 It’s not really that odd. Portugal for example always fought outnumbered and won. Some examples: Battle of Aljubarrota: 6.600 Portuguese knights vs 31.000 Spaniards; Battle of Tiger’s mouth in China: 3-6 ships vs 300-700 ships; Battle of Cochin 500 + 5 ships vs 70.000-80.000 + 260 vessels.
Note to say that the Portuguese Armada was once the strongest in the world. A single ship was a floating fortress with the strength of 100 ottoman/indian/chinese ships. The strongest galleon in the 16th century was a Portuguese ship named “Botafogo” (Spitfire) that had roughly 400 canons onboard.
I've been training in taekwondo for 35 years, and I figured I should be familiar with the country from which my art arose. This was a terrific primer. Thanks.
BTW I'm a Korean, and seeing that you are interested in Taekwondo and Korean history, I thought you might be interested in this fact: Contrary to what most Koreans think, Taekwondo is actually a modern Korean reinterpretation of Karate, which came from the Okinawa region of Japan. (Which still does not mean the two are the same, though! Taekwondo is still our national sport.) Traditional Korean martial arts are things like Gungdo (Korean archery), Ssireum (Korean wrestling), and Taekkyeon (rhythmic wrestling? idk how to describe this one).
Techniques from traditional Korean martial arts, such as tae kwon do and subak, are incorporated into taekwondo. Although early taekwondo was influenced by karate, modern taekwondo is connected to ancient Korean martial arts through the rediscovery of ancient traditional martial arts. Modern taekwondo is a very different martial art from karate, with a traditional Korean flavor, and according to Professor Kimmo Rauhala's thesis, 70% of the techniques are kicks, and these kicks are unique to the art. If you watch this video from the 1962 Korean Taekwondo Championships, you'll see that the fighting style is very different from karate.
@strongtowersystems so many different versions of viewpoints about the influence of Karate on Taekwondo. But to be honest almost all modern concepts were introduced into Korea while the Japanese were illegally occupying the Korean Peninsula. So many new concepts were first introduced from the west getting through the viewpoints of the Japanese, like the university, bank, philosophy and sports. In Korea we did have some traditional forms of fighting methods called in different names but they had just techniques without any modern administrative bodies. The doing was a new concept introduced from Japan. Wearing the same uniforms being taught from masters were actually new to everybody in Asia, invented in the wave of the modernization imitating the western sport bodies in the sense that anybody can be taught paying the tuition. Importing the administrative bodies from karate or judo dojangs Koreans set up their own dojangs in various names of martial arts. Some came to try to unify all those different martial arts proclaiming their own authenticities and traditionalities. It was in 1950s that the national committee of establishing appellation of the unified martial art was set up comprising important figures representing the Korean society. They came to agree on the new name of Taekwondo, representing the spirits of succeeding the traditional martial art of Taekyyon. Many of them had experienced the Karate, exchanging the technical skills there, importing the dojang system along with Dan degree system. Some had no contact with Karate. One of them was Whang ki , the founder of Muduck Kwan dojang. He said in his book my technical basis is taekkyyn but it has no systemic framework so now I establish it. He said he combined all the martial arts from Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula. Manchuria had been Koreans' cultural territories for thousands of years. He was public official of the Korean railroad authorities , opening the dojaing in front of Seoul station. 70 % of taekwondoists up until 1980s were from Mudouck dojang. Another was Choi Honghee, a founder of Odokwan or Chongdokwan. He learned Karate in Japan and imported the system vehemently actually introducing the appllation of Taekwondo. What is funny is so many new martial art purists in Korea are actually forming dojonag systems importing dandegree systems repeating the same job Taekwondo did 100 years ago criticizing Taekwondo has the origin of Karate and claiming they are pure traditional martial artists.
@strongtowersystems So many different versions of viewpoints about the influence of Karate on Taekwondo exist. But to be honest almost all modern concepts were introduced into Korea while the Japanese were illegally occupying the Korean Peninsula. So many new concepts were first introduced from the west getting through the viewpoints of the Japanese, like the university, bank, philosophy and sports, even the concept itself of state. In Korea we did have some traditional forms of fighting methods called in different names but they had just techniques without any modern administrative bodies. Just like state system the new concept of martial art system was imported with new administration bodies along with the traditional skills building up on new train njng systems of patterns called Hyung. The dojang was a new concept introduced from Japan. Wearing the same uniforms being taught from masters were actually new to everybody in Asia, invented in the wave of the modernization imitating the western sport bodies in the sense that anybody can be taught paying the tuition. Importing the administrative bodies from karate or judo dojangs Koreans set up their own dojangs in various names of martial arts. Some came to try to unify all those different martial art bodies proclaiming their own authenticities and traditionalities. It was in 1950s that the national committee of establishing appellation of the unified martial art was set up comprising important figures representing the Korean society. They came to agree on the new name of Taekwondo, representing the spirits of succeeding the traditional martial art of Taekyyon, almost the same sound of Taekwondo. Many of the masters had experienced the Karate, exchanging the technical skills there, importing the dojang system along with Dan degree system. Some had no contact with Karate. One of them was Whang ki , the founder of Muduck Kwan dojang. He said in his book my technical basis is taekkyyn but it has no systemic framework so now I establish it. He said he combined all the martial arts from Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula. Manchuria had been Koreans' cultural territories for thousands of years. He was public official of the Korean railroad authorities , opening the dojaing in front of Seoul station. Actually 70 % of Korean taekwondoists up until 1980s were from Mudouck dojang. Another was Choi Honghee, a founder of Odokwan or Chongdokwan. He learned Karate in Japan and imported the system vehemently actually introducing the appllation of Taekwondo first. What is funny is so many new martial art purists in Korea are actually forming dojonag systems importing dan degree systems repeating the same job Taekwondo did 100 years ago, criticizing Taekwondo has the origin of Karate and claiming they are pure traditional martial artists.
@seungjunrhee So many different versions of viewpoints about the influence of Karate on Taekwondo exist. But to be honest almost all modern concepts were introduced into Korea while the Japanese were illegally occupying the Korean Peninsula. So many new concepts were first introduced from the west getting through the viewpoints of the Japanese, like the university, bank, philosophy and sports, even the concept itself of state. In Korea we did have some traditional forms of fighting methods called in different names but they had just techniques without any modern administrative bodies. Just like state system the new concept of martial art system was imported with new administration bodies along with the traditional skills building up on new train njng systems of patterns called Hyung. The dojang was a new concept introduced from Japan. Wearing the same uniforms being taught from masters were actually new to everybody in Asia, invented in the wave of the modernization imitating the western sport bodies in the sense that anybody can be taught paying the tuition. Importing the administrative bodies from karate or judo dojangs Koreans set up their own dojangs in various names of martial arts. Some came to try to unify all those different martial art bodies proclaiming their own authenticities and traditionalities. It was in 1950s that the national committee of establishing appellation of the unified martial art was set up comprising important figures representing the Korean society. They came to agree on the new name of Taekwondo, representing the spirits of succeeding the traditional martial art of Taekyyon, almost the same sound of Taekwondo. Many of the masters had experienced the Karate, exchanging the technical skills there, importing the dojang system along with Dan degree system. Some had no contact with Karate. One of them was Whang ki , the founder of Muduck Kwan dojang. He said in his book my technical basis is taekkyyn but it has no systemic framework so now I establish it. He said he combined all the martial arts from Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula. Manchuria had been Koreans' cultural territories for thousands of years. He was public official of the Korean railroad authorities , opening the dojaing in front of Seoul station. Actually 70 % of Korean taekwondoists up until 1980s were from Mudouck dojang. Another was Choi Honghee, a founder of Odokwan or Chongdokwan. He learned Karate in Japan and imported the system vehemently actually introducing the appllation of Taekwondo first. What is funny is so many new martial art purists in Korea are actually forming dojonag systems importing dan degree systems repeating the same job Taekwondo did 100 years ago, criticizing Taekwondo has the origin of Karate and claiming they are pure traditional martial artists.
Hangul is one of the most intuitive, interesting and easy to learn language. "A smart man should be able to learn in a single day, a dumb man in 10 days." Lol (supposedly the Korean leader said this) 안녕하세요!
Well it's true... Korean is easy to learn... If u try then u can learn it definitely!!! I also start learning Korean! And trust me it's not that hard😊 안녕하세요 여러분!!!
The consonants are mostly pictures of what your tongue looks like when you create the sound. The vowels are harder to remember, and there are a few subtle sounds that are confusing, but it is the most thoughtful alphabet I have ever seen.
The 500-year history of Korea, the Joseon Dynasty, was a society ruled by scholars and kings. The kings had to be smarter than the other scholars. They slept only five hours a day and spent most of the day discussing policies and studying academics. So, Hangeul is at a level that the king can make properly.
The printing technology was imported from China. In China woodblock printing was invented around 650 AD and movable type around 1040 AD. The Koreans were the first to use cast iron movable type print.
As in ancient east Asia, what were the major printed books, why wouldn't hear or see one of these books or just a paper printed in Korea? We see thousands of books that Gutenberg machines have done.
@@stevenzheng5459 The Koreans were the first to use a printing method that was far more efficient than what China uses and what the Germans used 200 years later. Stop taking credit for the achievements of other countries.
Let me add a bit more detail. "Admiral" Yi Sun-Shin was originally an army "General". In the Chosun Dynasty, there was no distinction between the army (Yook-Goon) and the navy (Soo-Goon), but they were mingled together. In his early career, Yi Sun-shin had fought well as an army general in the northern territory and after he was assigned to be a Soo-Goon commander in Chola-Province, he started to build his fleet including the turtle ships and invented his naval tactics that were used successfully against the Japanese invading force. This integrity enabled him to win an impossible battle of 13 vs 300 ships later.
for those wondering how the korean admiral with 13 ships beat over 300 of the japanese it's because of a strong current that he knew about and he positioned his ships behind it, and when the japanese approached all there ships got destroyed in the current. it was very smartly done
flatest of all asians owe everything to the USA, corea is the number one culture theives in the world and most unappreciative so they adopt more unwanted babies out to the USA than anywhere in the world who grow up because of their dna to be terrible monkeys who should have never been born. get a reality check you know nothing of asia or the culture stealers. look up youtube 'culture copycats of the world'
@angelamanely9254 Thats badass honestly. It's like he knew the waves intimately. Almost like being a blacksmith general and knowing how to construct useful armor for your men.
For everyone interested there is a movie called "The Admiral: Roaring Currents" about the battle of myeongnyang. Its grandious. Yi Sun-Sin was a great admiral.
This. High budget, really gives colour and character to the era. Several echoes around the internal political conflict, internal betrayal, and internal determinism and technological strength of Korea. www.imdb.com/title/tt3541262/
Yi Sun-sin: Even though Korean wants to include Yi Sun-sin (李舜臣) as one of the three Greatest Admirals of the world, Horatio Nelson of the Britain who prevailed in the Battle of Trafalgar, John Paul Jones of the America who defeated the British for its independence, and Heihachiro Togo of Japan who defeated the Russia’s Baltic Fleet, he was not even a supreme commander, nor did he prevail in the battle that Koreans claim to have won. To start with, throughout their history, Korea was the weakest in the region. Since the time of Yuan Dynasty, Korea had been a tribunary state of China for almost one thousand years. They always asked other countries to fight for Korea’s domestic issues like in the Korean War, and this is why they have no true national hero. Yi Sun-sin was merely a commander of a fleet out of many Joseon fleets, certainly not the admiral or the commander of the Ming-Joseon Navy. Not only he failed to defeat the Japanese navy, he could not prevent them on the sea, allowing them to land on the Korean Peninsula. Japan at the time was the hay days of samurai and had the largest number of guns in the world with many experienced samurai in communications and modern battle tactics of the day. Korea on the other hand was merely a tribunary state of Ming with NO guns. There is no way Korean could beat Japan by itself. In fact, in the first dispatch, Japan conquered Seoul within one month, and Pyeongyang within two months capturing the princes of Joseon as a hostage while there was NO Japanese commander killed except for one who was assassinated during hawking. The only military exploit that Yi Sun-sin had against Japan was when he attacked “a supply fleet” and temporally cut off its supply route. But this is by no means being destroyed or defeated. His strategies were more like those of pirates or guerrillas, setting fire on ships at night or attacking from the back of Japanese fleets after agreeing on cease-fire. Coward and so typical of the weak. Later, since the military leader of Japan, Hideyoshi, who planned to conquer China through Korea, died of old age in Osaka, Japan agreed on cease-fire and retreated. It is a blatant lie for Koreans to say that Yi Sun-sin was a great admiral of the world, defeated the Japanese navy, and is the one from whom the world’s other admirals learn from. However, you could say that he had some brain, avoiding front-to-front battle with the mighty Japan.
Korean History: When you talk about Korean history, the first thing you have to know is that almost no present day Korean can read their true official history since they cannot read Chinese characters in which their entire history was written. The second thing is that Koreans did not leave much of written history and their first written official history book, Samguk Sagi, was only written in the 12th century. But even then, they do not refer to it much because there are so many shameful things written such as the kings of Silla were Japanese from Japan. The third thing is that their history was “created” AFTER the WWII by South Korea when its independence was given by the US. There was urgent need to create its “history” to give the Government the legitimacy and to promote national pride to fight in the Korean War. Thus it had to be patriotic. So what they do is to cherry pick some points from ancient Chinese and Japanese documents and filled the gaps with fantasies. No Koreans read their original. Nobody can even CHECK who is telling the truth. And they can only regurgitate the fabrications that their Government blatantly cocks up in order to hide the shameful part of their history including Jumong, Gojoseon and Goguryeo were not Korean but only conquered a part of Korea; the kings of Silla were Japanese from Japan; since the time of Yuan Dynasty, the Korean Peninsula was dependency of China for almost one thousand years; Korea was so poor and hopeless that their ancestors asked Japan to annex and modernize; the independence of South Korea was not fought for, but it was given by the US. The truth is that the countries that existed in the Korean Peninsula were always weak since its soil is poor; weather is not favorable for crops; and there is not much resources. You can read books written by westerners who visited the Peninsula before the Japanese annexation. There are at least a half dozen of them with the most famous one being "Korea and Her Neighbors" by an English traveler, Isabella Bird. She says that Seoul was the dirtiest and smelliest place on Earth, and even in the main streets there were not cultural things like restaurants, tea houses, theaters, or even shops. So just about everything you read and see about Korea’s history, that were “created" after the War and written not in Chinese but in Hangul (thus in English) such as Korean dramas, Wikipedia, recent history books, are all fabrications. South Korea even has a government body, the National Branding Council, to promote these fabrications by stealing other country’s history and cultures to gain the “soft power” for their economical profits. Their academics, corporations and public are all in this game led by the Government. Several years ago, in response to China's and Korean's claims on Japan's history education, Stanford Uni. conducted research on the history education of five countries: China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and USA. They concluded that the history taught in Japan was the fairest; in China, propaganda; in Korea, fantasy. Traditionally, being sandwiched by strong dynasties and countries such as Mongols, Chinese, Russians and Japanese, throughout its history, the weak and poor Koreans always had to lie, deceive and betray for their survival. Lies and fabrications have always been a part of their history, tradition and culture. This is what Koreans say about themselves: according to the main editorial by the Chief Editor of Choson Ilbo, the biggest newspaper in South Korea, on Mar 6, 2012, Feb. 2, 2010 and Feb. 13, 2003, "Koreans lie as if they breathe” and “Koreans are the world’s biggest liar of all." Korea has the highest fraud rate and is the only country whose fraud rate exceeds that of robbery in OECD. Also, all of perjury, calumny and fraud rates in South Korea are some 160-670 times higher than those of Japan.
Vital context of the Korean history and culture. So obvious with places like the Korean peninsula, Israel/Palestine, Poland... They're in geographical "pass throughs" that make them perpetual targets of invasion and subjugation. Fascinating, resilient societies that stem from those circumstances. Another hit, Shirvan!
flatest of all asians owe everything to the USA, corea is the number one culture theives in the world and most unappreciative so they adopt more unwanted babies out to the USA than anywhere in the world who grow up because of their dna to be terrible monkeys who should have never been born. get a reality check you know nothing of asia or the culture stealers. look up youtube 'culture copycats of the world'
Roshan B At the end he lost and was killed in the battle you have to see various records to objectively judge. Just by reading Korean records would not get you anywhere. Here you go: According to the main editorial by the Chief Editor of Choson Ilbo, the biggest newspaper in South Korea, on Mar 6, 2012, Feb. 2, 2010 and Feb. 13, 2003, "Koreans lie as if they breathe” and “Koreans are the world’s biggest liar of all." Korea has the highest fraud rate and is the only country whose fraud rate exceeds that of robbery in OECD. Also, all of perjury, calumny and fraud rates in S Korea are some 160-670 times higher than those of Japan.
@@hayek218 Bro what do you have against Yi Sun Shin? Did he kill your family or what? Remember this everyone is going to die in end even you,me and Yi Sun Shin did die. Just leave me alone.
Thank you so much for your documentary of Korea I have always had a fascination of the ancient Asian nations of China, Japan, Korea and Mongolia. Since our ancestors are from nomadic people from the Ural we had similar background.
That doesn't seem like such a bad comparison, but then again I don't know terribly all that much about Korea so maybe it's not. It's always iffy comparing the situations of different States. Lots of different moving parts.
dimsum9797 you were right, but Korean weaponries were more advanced in tech than Poland at the time Yi sun sin (sorry for mispellled his name) was alive
Except Poland was an idiot that kept provoking its immediate neighbors (Prussia & Russia) while foolishly indulging in their "Golden Liberty" which paralyzed the Sejm for over a century. Korea meanwhile used its stronger neighbor to its advantage. For example this video forgot to mention that Admiral Yi sailed with a large Chinese support fleet, and the Chinese Vice Admiral was killed during the decisive battle that took Yi's life.
@Duterte compare the map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Poland today and see just how much they've lost (not to mention being completely absent for 123 years before 1918). Meanwhile the two Koreas put together still hold all the core Korean lands. South Korea in particular is considered a "tiger economy" of Asia, while Poland is 'meh' in the EU at best.
Wow. I'm 5 years to two years behind on these absolutely facinating geo political histories. Many l am familiar with, the others are filling in the blanks. Thank you for being on of the most entertaining entity on social enlightenment I've had the luck to scroll up/down on...because it hard to pick one, or a dozen to watch. Kudos.
Both Japan and Korea massively relied on China though. Language, culture, arts, technology, philosophy, music, fashion, basically everything has roots from China.
I think the Mongolian invasion to Japen finally give Japen its geopolitical difference as nation. It was remotely far away even Japanese themselves couldn't awards invation from out of Japen
Basically the historical relationship between China, Japan and Korea is like the one between the UK, France and Germany, like a bunch of squabbling siblings.
China has been teaching Gojoseon, Goguryeo, and Balhae in Chinese history since 1994!! In addition, they claim that traditional Korean clothes such as hanbok and gat, and traditional Korean foods such as kimchi, samgyetang, and samgyeopsal are also Chinese food! Pizza is originally from China, and Genghis Khan is also Chinese Vietnamese rice noodles!! I'm really embarrassed by the distortion of Chinese history 🤣🤣
It is though, idk how people think these cultures have so much in common. Did the koreans appear from thin air and just so happen to be just like their neighbours?
I had to quit halfway. wangkon did not break off from silla. yamato did not cause the "growth" of silla and baekjae. baekjaes capital on the map you have shown was not Seoul as of today
Hyunje Lee if your history is misrepresented , speak up ! I don’t k ow any better and you guys are letting this guy tell me. As a representative of a small nation , I know how frustrated I get when my country’s history is mangled .
This video is actually pretty bad, falling short of Caspian Report's usually excellent standards. I am not even halfway through and I already note two major errors. 1. Wang Gun, the founder of the Goryeo dynasty, did NOT establish an understanding with the Japanese in order to reunite the Korean peninsula. Japan at the time was in chronic turmoil under the ineffectual rule of Heian emperors, and was in no position to intervene in foreign states. 2. Wang Gun did not get the name of "Goryeo" from nowhere. He and his northern noble supporters considered themselves part of the ancient Goguryeo, who had shortened their name to Goryeo sometime in the 5th century AD. From Wang Gun's perspective, he was merely establishing the rightful rule of Goguryeo/Goryeo over the Korean peninsula. This is really important because numerous Manchurian dynasties could have, and did try to, claim Goguryeo heritage, but in the end Koreans got it due to Goryeo. Kinda disappointed by the quality of this video, to be honest.
Not impressed. Japan was not a threat until 1590 and recently 1910. So the explanation that korea was sandwiched between china and japan is inaccurate.
Korean History: When you talk about Korean history, the first thing you have to know is that almost no present day Korean can read their true official history since they cannot read Chinese characters in which their entire history was written. The second thing is that Koreans did not leave much of written history and their first written official history book, Samguk Sagi, was only written in the 12th century. But even then, they do not refer to it much because there are so many shameful things written such as the kings of Silla were Japanese from Japan. The third thing is that their history was “created” AFTER the WWII by South Korea when its independence was given by the US. There was urgent need to create its “history” to give the Government the legitimacy and to promote national pride to fight in the Korean War. Thus it had to be patriotic. So what they do is to cherry pick some points from ancient Chinese and Japanese documents and filled the gaps with fantasies. No Koreans read their original. Nobody can even CHECK who is telling the truth. And they can only regurgitate the fabrications that their Government blatantly cocks up in order to hide the shameful part of their history including Jumong, Gojoseon and Goguryeo were not Korean but only conquered a part of Korea; the kings of Silla were Japanese from Japan; since the time of Yuan Dynasty, the Korean Peninsula was dependency of China for almost one thousand years; Korea was so poor and hopeless that their ancestors asked Japan to annex and modernize; the independence of South Korea was not fought for, but it was given by the US. The truth is that the countries that existed in the Korean Peninsula were always weak since its soil is poor; weather is not favorable for crops; and there is not much resources. You can read books written by westerners who visited the Peninsula before the Japanese annexation. There are at least a half dozen of them with the most famous one being "Korea and Her Neighbors" by an English traveler, Isabella Bird. She says that Seoul was the dirtiest and smelliest place on Earth, and even in the main streets there were not cultural things like restaurants, tea houses, theaters, or even shops. So just about everything you read and see about Korea’s history, that were “created" after the War and written not in Chinese but in Hangul (thus in English) such as Korean dramas, Wikipedia, recent history books, are all fabrications. South Korea even has a government body, the National Branding Council, to promote these fabrications by stealing other country’s history and cultures to gain the “soft power” for their economical profits. Their academics, corporations and public are all in this game led by the Government. Several years ago, in response to China's and Korean's claims on Japan's history education, Stanford Uni. conducted research on the history education of five countries: China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and USA. They concluded that the history taught in Japan was the fairest; in China, propaganda; in Korea, fantasy. Traditionally, being sandwiched by strong dynasties and countries such as Mongols, Chinese, Russians and Japanese, throughout its history, the weak and poor Koreans always had to lie, deceive and betray for their survival. Lies and fabrications have always been a part of their history, tradition and culture. This is what Koreans say about themselves: according to the main editorial by the Chief Editor of Choson Ilbo, the biggest newspaper in South Korea, on Mar 6, 2012, Feb. 2, 2010 and Feb. 13, 2003, "Koreans lie as if they breathe” and “Koreans are the world’s biggest liar of all." Korea has the highest fraud rate and is the only country whose fraud rate exceeds that of robbery in OECD. Also, all of perjury, calumny and fraud rates in South Korea are some 160-670 times higher than those of Japan.
@@commonsense7258 ?????? Look and compare the raw data from police statistics of OECD countries. You are a miserable liar nation. www.quora.com/Its-easy-to-see-why-Koreans-hate-Japanese-but-why-do-Japanese-hate-Koreans/answer/August-Hayek#
Indeed, ancient Japan was not a threat, but a mighty nation to admire for Korean kingdoms such as Shilla or Baekje in old times. For instance, the Book of Sui (隋書), one of the official Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China, says as follow: "Both Shilla and Baekje revered Wa as a superpower with plenty of rare and precious things. Therefore, they would often send their envoys to Wa respectively." (新羅百濟皆以倭為大國 多珍物並敬仰之 恒通使往來)
I'm History teacher in Korea. and I tell you guys this video is basically inaccurate in so many ways. 1. This video assume that current geographics of power are the same as ancient ones. But they're NOT. does America was always super power in the world from the beginning? No. same as Japan. 2. Go-jo-seon dynasty was started at northern part of China. Not Pyeong-yang. but surely they move to Pyeong-yang. 3. Kingdom of Go-gu-ryeo was not started in Pyeong-yang either. they started at Jilin province of nowdays China. 4. Kingdom of Yamato was basically small country which does not include whole of japan. so trade with japan has NOT that dramatic impact on Koreans. however trade with Korea and China benefits alot to Japan. so they switch their main material from STONE to IRON. 5. Wang-gun who founded Kingdom of Goryeo was not focused on Japan or China. in that time, China was devided as well as Japan too. just stop this nonsense already. I stop watching this video at this point. there is so many errors in here. I can literally write a paper about this. Korea has crucial role in Asian history. Korea had the leverage of balance of power between Chinese and Nomadic people such as Mongolians and Manchurians. roughly until 15 century, Japan was not that big deal. Many people understands korean history by this falsy video and I'm deeply sorry.
Korean Peninsula was a dependency of China for almost one thousand years. It was Japan that made it independent. Go-gu-ryeo was not Korean. They are different people. The ruling people were Jurchen. Japanese iron production method Tatara has nothing to do with Korea.
@G-G E ????? It is YOU who cannot read your own true history as they are all written In Chinese. It is YOU who cannot even check who is telling the truth. Your history is so sad that your government decided to teach you fantasies instead.
Before USA, Canada, Mexico and many countries in central and South America largest of which is Brazil there were many tribes that ruled before that Mayan, Aztec, Incas, Cherokees, Apaches, Navajo and many more.
Thank you for this contribution to Korean history. Even though some of parts are still controversial such as Gojoseon (not Bc 700 but earlier than Bc4,000 placed in Manchuria influencing to china, you can study 'the Hongsan culture' heritage which was regarded of the origin of Gojoseon), I reckon broadly understanding. Once again thank you.
You're laughing at me!Koreans are descendants of Silla people, and Silla people arrived in the eastern part of the Korean peninsula from the Russian Far East along the coastline!This is also the reason why Korean is Tungusic language family! Koreans like fantasy, after all, the tragic slave history ~
flatest of all asians owe everything to the USA, corea is the number one culture theives in the world and most unappreciative so they adopt more unwanted babies out to the USA than anywhere in the world who grow up because of their dna to be terrible monkeys who should have never been born. get a reality check you know nothing of asia or the culture stealers. look up youtube 'culture copycats of the world'
I don't think Japan was any significant in Asian history until much later therefore Korea being in the tug of war wouldn't be correct assessment while describing Korean history from the Gojoseon period. Japan pretty much skipped bronze age because of Gaya Confederate.
Japan in the ancient times wasn't a major power to be recognized with well it had deep relationships between Baekje and Gaya but superpower? Nope i don't think so untill they attacked at 1592 they weren't the force to be recognized But still the pirates was major problem
hydrolito It is true that Japan stopped Mongolia, but Korea also surrendered after fighting for 40 years with Mongolia. Those who do not know well know that Korea was immediately occupied by Mongolia. At that time, Korea (the Goryeo Dynasty) fought a terrible war with Mongolia for 40 years. Because of the island nature of Japan, Mongolia could not use the tactics of being driven by horsemen, which is their advantage, and Japan was able to defend to some extent because they had to fight the landing war by ship. Historically, Korea survived thousands of years of invasion by the nomadic dynasties of China and the north, whereas Japan lived well among themselves without foreign invasion thanks to its geographical advantage. Mongolia stabbed Japan several times, Japan luckily won several battles, and the Mongolian fleet was seriously damaged by a typhoon. Mongolia just withdrew without feeling the value of putting much effort into Japan. This is because Mongolia has nothing to gain by occupying that island. But the Japanese are proud of it that they have defeated the strongest Mongolia on their own. In that regard, compared to Japan, which won several battles, is Korea the strongest country that has fought against Mongolia for 40 years? Korea surrendered because the entire country was burned by the war for 40 years and the people could not stand suffering anymore. I do not know why, but Mongolia did not destroy Korea, which resisted them.
The world's first movable type printing press technology for printing paper books was made of porcelain materials and was invented around AD 1040 in China during the Northern Song Dynasty by the inventor Bi Sheng (990-1051). Subsequently in 1377, the world's oldest extant movable metal print book, Jikji(If you search the picture of this book you will find out it was written in Chinese), was printed in Korea during the Goryeo dynasty.
@@paulhan1615 DNA and skull analysis showed the Founder of Shang Dynasty who created the hanja script were immigrants who came from the Liaodong/liaohua area, which is the birthplace of korean civilization. The concept of korea and china did not exist 3000 bc. We both influenced each other. Hongshan Culture was in the Bohai region dates back to 4700 BC which is also the birthplace of Gojoseon which was founded 2333 BC. The most likely scenario is the Bohai region is birthplace of East Asian civilization and from there civilization branched to China and Korea.
123 123 ??????? Manchuria has nothing to do with Koreans. They are Jurchen and Xianbei. They conquered the northern part of Korean Peninsula and run Goguryeo but Koreans were like the Hans during the Qing dynasty. Claiming their history and cultures as yours is like Poland claiming Germany's history and cultures.
I seriously don't get why Koreans and Chinese have developed such resentment against each other. Korea's worst nightmares were not Chinese (that is, ethnic Hans) or Japan. They have been for several times but the real threats were the northern tribes which were nightmares for Hans as well. First, Xianbei almost destroyed both Buyeo and Goguryeo (especially the Muong Xianbei) and became significant threats to many Hans dynasty in the south, then Khitan devastated Balhae and Goryeo and Song Empire. After this, Jurchens came and they fought both Goryeo and Song consequently. The Mongols came after this (and you know what happened.) The reason Joseon sticked so much close to China is because they feared that the Jurchens still lurking in the Southern Manchuria region might get strong again and invade them. (Which they did) The only times in history where Korea and Hans came directly into conflict is Gojoseon-Yan War in the late 4th century BC, Gojoseo-Han War in the 109~108 BC, Goguryeo-Sui, Tang War (this can be controversial as well since Tang had an alliance with another Korean kingdom Silla) and Tang-Silla war (which both countries reconcilled with each other right after the war).
paul han yes you depicted the very Game-Of-Thrones-like history in east Asia, seven kingdoms, wildlings, white walkers. Woe is our Song dynasty, what a great period of commercialism and inventions, ruined by all sorts of wildlings and white walkers.
Off topic but your accent and voice in general is really calming. Works out that I can get some history lessons in as I try to fall asleep. Win win situation
The Baekje, Silla, Gaya weren't rebel states of Goguryeo; they started from uniting cheifdoms that existed under influence of Joseon(Early Joseon). Silla wasn't in a position that had to balance out China and Japan; Japan was pretty much irrelevant to the outer world until 16th century as they were disunited and behind in military tech. Silla's main military concerns were Balhae(Korean kingdom that everyone forgets to mention) and Goryeo's main military concerns were northern nomadic peoples of manchus/turks/mongols, Japanese pirates(waku), and China. Japan grew far stronger than Korea in their warring states period in 15th century.
Movable type was invented in China by Bi Sheng in the 11th century. The Koreans innovated by making caste iron movable type (the Chinese used ceramic, wood, and later bronze).
Bi Sheng's original movable type is gone (way before the cultural revolution). However, the technology persisted and spread across East and Central Asia for the next 500 years. When the Jesuits visited China from 1600-1800 AD, they were impressed by the efficiency of China's printing presses. Printing presses in East Asia were less mechanized compared to Gutenburg's press. We don't press the type on the paper. Instead we press the paper on the type.
I'm not sure actually. I know printed books from the Tang and Song dynasty still exist. The Tang dynasty used woodblock printing (check out the Diamond Sutra). Song dynasty books were printed using movable type.
If Balhae is not a Korean dynasty, Sui, Tang, Jin, Qing and every other "Chinese" dynasty that is ruled by North Asian nomadic tribes are not Chinese dynasties. Seriously who tf call someone babarian the whole time and embrace him as a family all of a sudden because of the territories?
@@herosio270 I know right? CCP think Balhae is Chinese history because Balhae ruled the current "Chinese territory" which is Manchuria. That's just plain stupid.
The history of a country can be classified into territorial history and ethnic history. It is evident that the history of Balhae occurred on the territory of China, and of course, it is part of the history of China's territory. Also, don't forget that modern Manchus have already integrated into China, and the ancestral history of Manchus is also eligible for inclusion in Chinese history books. The region to which the name '中國' belongs is dynamic, initially only in the area of Henan Province.China itself is a melting pot of East Asian ethnic groups, which may not be well understood by Koreans.@@alessandrovialpando609
< Timeline of Korea history > Go-Joseon : BC 2333 ~ BC 108 Three kingdoms : BC 37~AD 668 - Goguryeo : N of Korea - Baekje : SW of Korea - Silla : SE of Korea Unified Silla : AD 676~935 Goryeo (originality of Korea name) : 918~1392 Joseon : 1393~1896 Empire of Korea : 1897~1910 Japanese colonial era : 1910~1945 Korea : 1948~present - Korean War : 1950~1953 - the division of South and North Korea The historically strongest countries were Goguryeo and Goryeo.
Far too many mistakes in this video though. The movable type printing press was invented in China a few hundred years before Korea took it and made a metal version of it. China also had lots of conflicts that were much more destructive than that war. The Taiping rebellion alone had a crazy death toll with conservative estimates numbering at 20 to 30 million, let alone the mongol invasion and other civil wars. For context, 17 million people died in World War 1. Shirvan's Achilles heel is East Asia it seems.
Adam G not to mention the red turban rebellion by which Ming took power, the Mongol devastation of the Jurchen dynastie of Jin...i mean cmon Asia is too big.
Silla was alliance’s with China while Baekjae was alliance with japan. Eventually, silla won Baekjae. And goguryeo was up against silla. But they were surrounded by silla and the northern borders. Goguryeo fell and silla won the Korean Peninsula
The name of Korea comes from Goguryeo (BC 37 or 3rd century - AD 668), the name of which had been later changed by its king into Goryeo, or/and Goguryeo was sometimes called Goryeo, even before Silla unified three kingdoms(Goguryeo, Baekje[BC 18 - AD 660], smaller Silla[BC 57-AD 676]). Some rulers of Goguryeo founded Balhae after the fall of Goguryeo, claiming it to be a successor of Goguryeo. Goguryeo or the "first" Goryeo originated from Buyeo, and Buyeo was founded at the place of Go-Joseon. "Old" Joseon or Go-Joseon was the first Korean kingdom and its name was just "Joseon" at its time, but for distinguishing from "later"/"Yi" Joseon, it is now called "Go(=old)-Joseon". Baekje came from the royal family of Goguryeo. When greater/unified Silla (AD 676 - 935) weakened later, "new" Goryeo replaced the unified Silla, claiming that the new royal court succeeded "old" Goryeo (i.e., Goguryeo). "New" Goryeo (AD 918-1392) was a trade country where even muslim merchants came for businesses from the Middle East and its name was known to foreign countries as "Core", "Corea", and current "Korea" etc. "Yi" Joseon (1392-1897)replaced "new" Goryeo, with the same name of the "old" Joseon kingdom. Sum: Go("old")-Joseon->Buyeo->three kingdoms->greater Silla (+ Balhae in the North, which also claimed to succeed the fallen Goguryeo, but when Balhae fell later, its rulers were accepted by "new" Goryeo)-> "new" Goryeo -> "Yi" Joseon or just Joseon -> 20th century history of colonialism(1910-1945), provisional government (1919-45), division into north/south Koreas(1945-), Korean republic-building (1948-), and war in 1950-3, and now.
flatest of all asians owe everything to the USA, corea is the number one culture theives in the world and most unappreciative so they adopt more unwanted babies out to the USA than anywhere in the world who grow up because of their dna to be terrible monkeys who should have never been born. get a reality check you know nothing of asia or the culture stealers. look up youtube 'culture copycats of the world'
When you study East Asian history deeply enough, you would realize Japan was never a powerhouse until importation of muskets from Portuguese and unification by Oda Nobunaga, Daimyo of Owari. The population and economic power of Japan surpassed Korea in 13th century when the peninsula was completely devastated by 40 years of mongol invasion. Soon Koreans established their own regime and occupied liaodong peninsula(which was de jure of Korea at that time) having political struggle with Ming over suzerainity of Jurchen tribes, Muromachi bakufu began to collapse; eventually leading to 100 years of internal struggle(Senkoku jidai) so they weren't a problem as a nation(except wokou pirates raided the coastline resident of Ming and Joseon).
Most of the Manchria used to be Koreans' historical sphere. There are still many ethnic Koreans living there. It was only 1949 China firmly secured its administrative body over the region. KoJoseon and subsequently Kororuyo ruled almost all Northern part of China, defeating Chinese forces many times. Jurins having established Ching China was actually part of the Korean heritages, sharing the same bloodline and language by which they could communicate with each other without interpreters. Kojoseon's capital used to be located in the northern Manchria before it was relocated to Pyongyang. And the history is really complicated. So many theories compete against one another over the influence of China on the ancient Korea dynasties. This clip is a little bit oversimplified.
Yi Sun-sin: Even though Korean wants to include Yi Sun-sin (李舜臣) as one of the three Greatest Admirals of the world, Horatio Nelson of the Britain who prevailed in the Battle of Trafalgar, John Paul Jones of the America who defeated the British for its independence, and Heihachiro Togo of Japan who defeated the Russia’s Baltic Fleet, he was not even a supreme commander, nor did he prevail in the battle that Koreans claim to have won. To start with, throughout their history, Korea was the weakest in the region. Since the time of Yuan Dynasty, Korea had been a tribunary state of China for almost one thousand years. They always asked other countries to fight for Korea’s domestic issues like in the Korean War, and this is why they have no true national hero. Yi Sun-sin was merely a commander of a fleet out of many Joseon fleets, certainly not the admiral or the commander of the Ming-Joseon Navy. Not only he failed to defeat the Japanese navy, he could not prevent them on the sea, allowing them to land on the Korean Peninsula. Japan at the time was the hay days of samurai and had the largest number of guns in the world with many experienced samurai in communications and modern battle tactics of the day. Korea on the other hand was merely a tribunary state of Ming with NO guns. There is no way Korean could beat Japan by itself. In fact, in the first dispatch, Japan conquered Seoul within one month, and Pyeongyang within two months capturing the princes of Joseon as a hostage while there was NO Japanese commander killed except for one who was assassinated during hawking. The only military exploit that Yi Sun-sin had against Japan was when he attacked “a supply fleet” and temporally cut off its supply route. But this is by no means being destroyed or defeated. His strategies were more like those of pirates or guerrillas, setting fire on ships at night or attacking from the back of Japanese fleets after agreeing on cease-fire. Coward and so typical of the weak. Later, since the military leader of Japan, Hideyoshi, who planned to conquer China through Korea, died of old age in Osaka, Japan agreed on cease-fire and retreated. It is a blatant lie for Koreans to say that Yi Sun-sin was a great admiral of the world, defeated the Japanese navy, and is the one from whom the world’s other admirals learn from. However, you could say that he had some brain, avoiding front-to-front battle with the mighty Japan.
wow, Korea is at the center of so much of east asian history. It's easy to understand the history of Japan, China and the Xiongnu/Jerchen people through the lens of Korean history.
Admiral Yi Sun Shin wasn't well known when he was still alive even after winning the battle in the sea. His king were afraid that people will love Admiral more than him so he made sure Admiral Yi Sun Shin will be put on his place. But centuries later, his legacy was still remembered and even Japanese people know him very well. Foreigners know Admiral Yi Sun Shin more than Korean which is quite shocking. Truth hurts but now, Korean people acknowledge all his work and legacy. His patriotism will forever be remembered even the highest heavens are amazed by his mindset. Watch the movie about him guys. You will be amazed for sure.
“...leading to a quarter million dead... is the Most destructive conflict in East Asian up till WWII” apparently the author didn’t know about the taiping rebellion in China...
Yes and no... In Modern days and recent history yes I'd agree with you but historically Korea actually suffered from the opposite. It was too peaceful. They didn't mind being a trade tributary with China and Japan at the time was far too weak to do anything. Ancient Japan wasn't very strong. Ancient Korea was strong but all that peace caused them to become weak and there was a lot of infighting causing them to become corrupt.
goguryeo -->goryeo( The mean is to continue Goguryeo.) To foreigners, goryeo called Korea. Traditional Chinese countries usually use one letter to national name. su ,dang,jin,myung. Just by name, Koreans are goguryeo's descendants. But the Chinese deny it. we all came from China? Because they are the center of the world and univers. right? avengers also chinese. yes everything is china. Sphinx is also china. Because they're making a fake. Because the whole world is theirs.
goguryeo -->goryeo( The mean is to continue Goguryeo.) To foreigners, goryeo called Korean??? the Russians call China the Khitan（китай ）. Is China the Khitan? ？
There are many Korean historical claims that are obviously fake，such as Dangun Joseon ......... Chinese history books only appeared Gija Joseon 箕子朝鮮and Wiman Joseon衛滿朝鮮, not Dangun Joseon 檀君朝鮮 Dangun Joseon was first mentioned in Samguk Yusa (1281)《三國遺事》, written 3600 years after the time of“Dangun Joseon”. It‘s so funny！！ Korean want to create an ancestor to replace Jizi and Wiman ......................................... Before the Han Dynasty, the Korean Peninsula did not have its own writing system What administration system did "Gojoseon" adopted to rule such a large territory ？ How to convey the emperor's order ？ How to record your own history？
According to the Samguk Sagi, the Goguryeo royal family claimed descent from the Gaoyang高陽氏， surname of "Gao/Go" (高) 高朱蒙（Go Jumong） Why did Goguryeo claim that their ancestors were Chinese?
How Do You Explain This： Modern Korean = 20% to 37%O2b[Southeast Asia]+ 40%O3[East Asia]+15%C-M217[Northeast Asia] O2a and O2b share a common ancestor O2 O1 and O2 share a common ancestor O-F265 Today O1 and O2a are southeast Asians. What made Koreans think O2 (b) origins were "Northeast Asians"? O1=Austronesian languages= Indonesia+Malaysia+Philippines.............. O2a=Austroasiatic languages=Vietnam+Khmer............... O2b=Korean+Janpan+Vietnam+Indonesia.......... O1+O2a=Tai-Kadai languages=Thailand+Laos+Zhuang.......... O3 originated in Yunnan or Burma O3 (M122) =Sino-Tibetan(M134)+Hmong-Mien(M7) Hmong-Mien=Hmong (Miao)+ Mien (Yao) ............ Sino-Tibetan=Han+Tibetan+Burmese+Tujia.............. Y-chromosome haplogroup O3 is a common DNA marker in Han Chinese, as it appeared in China in prehistoric times. It is found in more than 50% of Chinese males, and ranging up to over 80% in certain regional subgroups of the Han ethnicity C-M217= Central Asian peoples+ indigenous Siberians................... In the past Manchuria=Donghu東胡+Sushen肅慎+Fuyu扶餘+Xianbei鮮卑+Chinese（東夷/Dongyi/Longshan culture ） Mongolian ancestors belong to Donghu蒙兀室韋 Manchu ancestors belong to Sushen肅慎 Goguryeo ancestors belong to Buyeo扶餘 Turkish people ancestors belong to Xianbei鲜卑 The haplogroup O3-M122 was found in Longshan culture and is now common in Sino-Tibetan populations Korean nationalists claim that their Y-DNA was O2b But O2b is not related to Central Asia and Siberia O2b is descedant of O2, which is descedant of O, O origin is southeast-asia. Siberia haplogroup ratio [O2b 0%] Mongolians haplogroup ratio [O2b 0%] Turkish haplogroup ratio [O2b 0%] Hongshan Culture haplogroup ratio [O2b 0%] Liao civilization N1(xN1a, N1c) was found in ancient bones of Liao civilization Niuheliang (Hongshan Culture, 6500-5000 BP) 66.7%(=4/6) Halahaigou (Xiaoheyan Culture, 5000-4200 BP) 100.0%(=12/12) Dadianzi (Lower Xiajiadian culture, 4200-3600 BP) 60.0%(=3/5) This region was thought to have been desert for the past 1 million years. However, a 2015 study found that the region once featured rich aquatic resources and deep lakes and forests that existed from 12,000 years ago to 4,000 years ago. It was changed into desert by climate change which began approximately 4,200 years ago.Therefore, people of the Hongshan culture may have emigrated to the south approximately 4,000 years ago and later influenced Chinese culture. Hongshan Culture is related to Yi people[30%]，Lhoba people [34%] and “Han” If Koreans originate from the Liao River Civilization then their yDNA should belong to N1 But today Koreans belong to O2b It contrast with korean's claim
Japan has a high literacy rate for hundreds of years. It was higher than that of European countries. For a long time in Japan, the language culture was rich and the rational culture was mature. On the Korean Peninsula, slavery existed 100 years ago. Nearly 40% of the total population of Korea was a slave. Korea's literacy rate at that time was 6%. Japan abolished slavery in Korea. Korea, which was dominated by the dynasty of the day, monopolized the wealth of the poor Korean with a slight privilege class. The Korean citizens lived in a straw climbing roof, education, medical care and social systems were the poorest countries. The king of Korea was unable to suppress the rebellion of large farmers in Korea that occurred at the time. Then the king asked Japan and China to send troops to Korea. After suppressing that revolt, Ito (former Japanese prime minister) got angry that the king of Korea "why did you devastate Korea so far?"
Poland at least had the history of being the largest country in Europe, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but Koreans really hadn't been that strong ever
DeepDark Fantasy well Kogoryou as they want to make their history actually ruled over modern Manchuria which is larger than Japanese total land mass if you count..
DeepDark Fantasy, look up Goguryeo (Koryŏ). It's where the name Korea comes from. This video only skims the surface of Korean history, not to mention that it makes a bunch of mistakes.
This video is beautiful and sensational. Basically for five reasons. First, this material of Caspian Report is about a country - Korea, of course - which in general, is not the focus in a synthetic frame like this video. Second, I was very surprised about the facts the Korean history, like the defeat of the Japanese navy in the past and others; Third, the fascinating geopolitical vision, demonstrating how much of the world people's history and culture are a geography product, in this case, focusing de History of Korea; Fourth, the video illuminate about the contradictions of the Reunification Matter, the economic disparities between North/South Korea, the distinct political roadmaps and the same time, the possible complementarities that exist in the hypothetical common agenda. Fifth - last but not least - the precise information and the accurate cartography, that not permiss distraction. Congratulations!
Thank you for your interest in Korean history. Research on the Joseon Dynasty is also very interesting. Joseon used Confucius and Mencius' Confucianism as its policy ideology for 500 years, but each country had its own weak-kneed-for-the-medievalism. It is also a history where you can see how it is corrupted and collapsed by national ideology. Joseon completely suppressed commercial and industrial capitalists as a status society, and farmers were prevented from doing other things because they thought that farming should be done as a vocation. It is a history where you can see how a strong country collapses if its national ideology comes in wrong. So Koreans hate Confucius, but I don't know why there is a rumor that Confucius is Korean.
The more I watch your videos and read books about geopolitics the more I realize how nations and cutures delude themselves into thinking that their success is due to national character and strength. We are all slaves to our lands.
It's actually pretty funny how the history of Japan is 'we were barbarians, a more advanced society kicked our asses, we learned from it and decided to kick some ass ourselves'. Happened with China and then with the USA. Actually it's what I think would happen with humans if we encountered a more advanced alien civilisation. In the short term we'd lose but not completely, in the long run we'd catch up to their technology.
@@aussieboy4090 well the video describe the three kingdum period as dominated by the one kingdom; goguryeo. This is kind of a misrepresentation of the period as all kingdoms actually had their share of golden ages.
04:55 It is also a problem to explain that Wang Geon of Goryeo cooperated with Japan to achieve unification. A.D10Century China was also in a period of division, Korea was also in a period of division, and the situation of nomadic peoples in the north was rapidly changing. The Japanese monarchy had been weakened for a long time and was politically disturbed. At that time, East Asia was each busy with its own internal affairs. After the division of each country ended, the unified countries such as the Song Dynasty, Goryeo, Khitan, Tangut, Vietnam, and Dari settled, the international order in East Asia is reorganized.
I didn't take this channel as a history channel. I don't normally find that people with high levels of knowledge about geopolitics are adequately trained to do history properly.
?????????? If you want to know how your ancestors used to live BEFORE the annexation, you can read books written by westerners who visited there. There are at least a half dozen of them with the most famous one being "Korea and Her Neighbors" by Isabella Bird. She says that Seoul was the dirtiest and smelliest place on Earth, and even in the main streets there were not cultural things like restaurants, tea houses, theaters, or even shops.
Thestickystickman LOL ... The truth of the matter is as follows: ・William Franklin Sands "집은 옹기종기 붙어 있고 개천과 골목을 따라 모여 있다. 홍수의 계절을 제외하고 푸른 찌꺼기 투성이의 바닥을 따라 스며 나와 장티푸스, 천연두, 콜레라를 옮긴다. 이런 우물에서 여자들은 즐겁게 빨래를 하고 날마다 음식을 씻는다. 배수로 표면에서 악취가 나는 이 얕은 우물보다 더 나쁜 곳은 없다. 지저분한 하층민의 집에는 토속 반찬인 김치의 시큼한 냄새가 난다" ーW. F. 샌즈 지음, 신복룡 역주, 조선비망록, 집문당, 1999, p.50 ・Ernst J.Oppert "대체로 조선의 가옥들은 이웃나라들에 비해 매우 초라한 인상을 주며 조선의 건축 양식이 중국이나 일본에 이르기 위해서는 대단한 노력을 기울여야 할 것이다 ” ーE. J. 오페르트 지음, 신복룡・장우영 역주, 금단의 나라 조선, 집문당, 2000, p.117 ・Henry A.Savage-Landor "The streets of the town could not be more tortuous and irregular. With the exception of the main thoroughfares, most of the streets are hardly wide enough to let four people walk abreast. The drainage is carried away in uncovered channels alongside the house, in the street itself; and, the windows being directly over these drains, the good people of Cho-sen, when inside their homes, cannot breathe without inhaling the fumes exhaled from the fetid matter stagnant underneath." ーCorea or Cho-sen - The Land of the Morning Calm, IndyPublish, 2007, pp. 85-86
@@lupimali9504 Dude these reports were written in 1999. Our country was destroyed after imperial japanise rule and the korean war. Most buildings and national heritage were stolen, ruined, and bombed into pulp and we had to start all over again. And, there was a economical crisis in 1997 which left a lot of people without jobs and poor parts of the country was left unbuilt.
Please pronounce "J"s as hard "G" (as in ginger not garlic) sounds in Korean. They are English "J"s not German or other European "J"s that sound like English "Y"s. Edit: you've pronounced "Bek-Je" quite well, so I don't know why you'd pronounce "Kim Jung Eun" or "Jin" with the English y sounds. Otherwise, very good brief summary (and potentially the best I've seen) of Korea's thousands of years long history. But I'd say the significance of Japan is just slightly over played (I guess it was to foreshadow what's to come) and the Manchurian people (Kithans and Jurchins etc.) and the region's importance are quite underplayed in ancient and early medieval periods.
12:12 Chinese in disarray from the Japanese invasion? I am sorry, but how can anyone be that DENSE to come up with a conclusion like that? The Imijin War saw Ming send only 48,000 men during the 1st invasion and 72,000 during the 2nd. With a loss of only 32,000 in total. Meanwhile the Ming had station 200,000 troops at the Northern and Western frontier to protect against the Mongols. After the Imijin war China would be ravaged by plague, a little ice-age that saw crop failure and later famine and natural disasters that sparked rebellion. Seeing the country slowing falling apart with Li Zicheng capturing Beijing and the Emperor committing suicide. This in turn allowed the Manchu to be invited in to avenge the Ming Emperor. After analyzing all these problems, anyone who come to the conclusion "obviously Ming was weakened by Japanese invasion" has to be a complete idiot! A lot of other errors too which degrade the quality of the video. The video could have been much better researched and be of actual value but now it serves for the most mixing misinformation with a few historical accurate facts.
No Escape Ming did suffer from lack of rice support because Wanli Emperor sent more than 100,000 tons of them to help Joseon get over the invasion. Also, yes, the Manchus didn't even cross the Great Wall when Ming was around.
Where Mongols went, prosperity and cultural advancement followed. It was their amazing administration that gave the world Hafez, Taj Muhal, religious equality under law, and......Korea turns out to be another example.
Amazing stuff!! This channel keeps getting better. May I suggest the Levant? Lebanon/Syria/Palestine, also a crucial region between great powers with many ups and downs.
This video is pretty good but the Korean three kingdoms are Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla, not Silla, Baekje and Gaya (3:03). Gaya didnt last long at all and the three kingdom era started after Gaya fell.
We need an Assassin's Creed game set in ancient Korea. Seriously.
If that happened, every Korean gamers will buy them. All sold out
CYSYS8993 and that will be the cause of my grades improving.
YES
Yeah. No point in making an assassins creed game set in Japan. Ghost of Tsushima will cover that.
tangbein it could totally work though, in ghost of Tsushima you're a samurai, but in assasins creed you could be a ninja (or in the games case, one of the shinobi) since historically the ninjas did exactly that, assasinations and other stealth operations
Japan: *sends 300 ships*
Admiral Yi Sun Shin: Summon the TURTLE.
He fought 300+ ships without the Turtle ship. Turtle ship was destroyed prior to that battle by inept Generals who took over Yi's command while he was imprisoned for disobeying idiot King's order that'd have jeopardized his fleet.
The truth is that he was merely a commander, not an admiral; only temporality cut off logistics; killed no samurai commander; gave a mastery of the sea to the Japanese; allowed them to land and capture the prince; attacked the Japanese from the back after ceasefire; was killed by the Japanese in the battle.
@@hayek218 he was given admiral command for later battles including myeongryang i believe, as there were no one else to command the sea.
@@Xentradi97 So says your stupid manga?
You can talk about any fantasy if you do not have to back up.
He was NEVER an admiral. He was merely a commander of a fleet, not even a commodore of the Korean Navy if you had it at all, let alone an admiral of the Ming-Korea Navy.
Most Koreans cannot even swim well even today, and you never had a blue water navy. You are a land people.
@@hayek218 おいクソやろ、てめえの国に戻ったら？
漫画で歴史を学んだ方はてめえの方に見えるが？
彼は戦争序盤では非公式的に残りの朝鮮水軍の総指揮官として活動し、実際に提督になったというのが事実だろう？
２８戦中で低遷移後の戦いは最後の一戦のみ、それも安全な撤退が停戦に含まらないのが普通だったその時には何も問題もねえじゃん？
それに加藤清正、小西行長などはてめえの基準ではサムライじゃなくなるんだろう？ww
あ、ワルィ、てめえのようなweeabooは日本を憧れて日本人になりたいのに、実は夢の母国語さえできない低能どもだったなww
忘れてすまん！wwww
Holy crap. 12 ships defeated 300
Zero64 nah the ships are defeated by the storm
@Zero64 It’s not really that odd. Portugal for example always fought outnumbered and won.
Some examples:
Battle of Aljubarrota: 6.600 Portuguese knights vs 31.000 Spaniards;
Battle of Tiger’s mouth in China: 3-6 ships vs 300-700 ships;
Battle of Cochin 500 + 5 ships vs 70.000-80.000 + 260 vessels.
Note to say that the Portuguese Armada was once the strongest in the world. A single ship was a floating fortress with the strength of 100 ottoman/indian/chinese ships. The strongest galleon in the 16th century was a Portuguese ship named “Botafogo” (Spitfire) that had roughly 400 canons onboard.
That’s the real 300
펄럭
you missed Balhae kingdom
ㅇㅈ 발해가 엄청 대단햔디ㅡ..
Balhae was founded by Goguryeo Dae Jo-young.
U korean?
@pussy k that slave will fxck your shithole until you scream ‘harder daddy’ like a fxcking bxtxh
@pussy k 중국의 노예나라 조차 점령못한 일본 수준
I've been training in taekwondo for 35 years, and I figured I should be familiar with the country from which my art arose. This was a terrific primer. Thanks.
BTW I'm a Korean, and seeing that you are interested in Taekwondo and Korean history, I thought you might be interested in this fact:
Contrary to what most Koreans think, Taekwondo is actually a modern Korean reinterpretation of Karate, which came from the Okinawa region of Japan. (Which still does not mean the two are the same, though! Taekwondo is still our national sport.) Traditional Korean martial arts are things like Gungdo (Korean archery), Ssireum (Korean wrestling), and Taekkyeon (rhythmic wrestling? idk how to describe this one).
Techniques from traditional Korean martial arts, such as tae kwon do and subak, are incorporated into taekwondo. Although early taekwondo was influenced by karate, modern taekwondo is connected to ancient Korean martial arts through the rediscovery of ancient traditional martial arts. Modern taekwondo is a very different martial art from karate, with a traditional Korean flavor, and according to Professor Kimmo Rauhala's thesis, 70% of the techniques are kicks, and these kicks are unique to the art. If you watch this video from the 1962 Korean Taekwondo Championships, you'll see that the fighting style is very different from karate.
@strongtowersystems so many different versions of viewpoints about the influence of Karate on Taekwondo. But to be honest almost all modern concepts were introduced into Korea while the Japanese were illegally occupying the Korean Peninsula. So many new concepts were first introduced from the west getting through the viewpoints of the Japanese, like the university, bank, philosophy and sports.
In Korea we did have some traditional forms of fighting methods called in different names but they had just techniques without any modern administrative bodies.
The doing was a new concept introduced from Japan.
Wearing the same uniforms being taught from masters were actually new to everybody in Asia, invented in the wave of the modernization imitating the western sport bodies in the sense that anybody can be taught paying the tuition.
Importing the administrative bodies from karate or judo dojangs Koreans set up their own dojangs in various names of martial arts.
Some came to try to unify all those different martial arts proclaiming their own authenticities and traditionalities.
It was in 1950s that the national committee of establishing appellation of the unified martial art was set up comprising important figures representing the Korean society. They came to agree on the new name of Taekwondo, representing the spirits of succeeding the traditional martial art of Taekyyon.
Many of them had experienced the Karate, exchanging the technical skills there, importing the dojang system along with Dan degree system.
Some had no contact with Karate. One of them was Whang ki , the founder of Muduck Kwan dojang. He said in his book my technical basis is taekkyyn but it has no systemic framework so now I establish it. He said he combined all the martial arts from Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula. Manchuria had been Koreans' cultural territories for thousands of years.
He was public official of the Korean railroad authorities , opening the dojaing in front of Seoul station. 70 % of taekwondoists up until 1980s were from Mudouck dojang.
Another was Choi Honghee, a founder of Odokwan or Chongdokwan. He learned Karate in Japan and imported the system vehemently actually introducing the appllation of Taekwondo.
What is funny is so many new martial art purists in Korea are actually forming dojonag systems importing dandegree systems repeating the same job Taekwondo did 100 years ago criticizing Taekwondo has the origin of Karate and claiming they are pure traditional martial artists.
@strongtowersystems So many different versions of viewpoints about the influence of Karate on Taekwondo exist.
But to be honest almost all modern concepts were introduced into Korea while the Japanese were illegally occupying the Korean Peninsula.
So many new concepts were first introduced from the west getting through the viewpoints of the Japanese, like the university, bank, philosophy and sports, even the concept itself of state.
In Korea we did have some traditional forms of fighting methods called in different names but they had just techniques without any modern administrative bodies.
Just like state system the new concept of martial art system was imported with new administration bodies along with the traditional skills building up on new train njng systems of patterns called Hyung.
The dojang was a new concept introduced from Japan.
Wearing the same uniforms being taught from masters were actually new to everybody in Asia, invented in the wave of the modernization imitating the western sport bodies in the sense that anybody can be taught paying the tuition.
Importing the administrative bodies from karate or judo dojangs Koreans set up their own dojangs in various names of martial arts.
Some came to try to unify all those different martial art bodies proclaiming their own authenticities and traditionalities.
It was in 1950s that the national committee of establishing appellation of the unified martial art was set up comprising important figures representing the Korean society.
They came to agree on the new name of Taekwondo, representing the spirits of succeeding the traditional martial art of Taekyyon, almost the same sound of Taekwondo.
Many of the masters had experienced the Karate, exchanging the technical skills there, importing the dojang system along with Dan degree system.
Some had no contact with Karate.
One of them was Whang ki , the founder of Muduck Kwan dojang.
He said in his book my technical basis is taekkyyn but it has no systemic framework so now I establish it.
He said he combined all the martial arts from Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula.
Manchuria had been Koreans' cultural territories for thousands of years.
He was public official of the Korean railroad authorities , opening the dojaing in front of Seoul station.
Actually 70 % of Korean taekwondoists up until 1980s were from Mudouck dojang.
Another was Choi Honghee, a founder of Odokwan or Chongdokwan.
He learned Karate in Japan and imported the system vehemently actually introducing the appllation of Taekwondo first.
What is funny is so many new martial art purists in Korea are actually forming dojonag systems importing dan degree systems repeating the same job Taekwondo did 100 years ago, criticizing Taekwondo has the origin of Karate and claiming they are pure traditional martial artists.
@seungjunrhee So many different versions of viewpoints about the influence of Karate on Taekwondo exist.
But to be honest almost all modern concepts were introduced into Korea while the Japanese were illegally occupying the Korean Peninsula.
So many new concepts were first introduced from the west getting through the viewpoints of the Japanese, like the university, bank, philosophy and sports, even the concept itself of state.
In Korea we did have some traditional forms of fighting methods called in different names but they had just techniques without any modern administrative bodies.
Just like state system the new concept of martial art system was imported with new administration bodies along with the traditional skills building up on new train njng systems of patterns called Hyung.
The dojang was a new concept introduced from Japan.
Wearing the same uniforms being taught from masters were actually new to everybody in Asia, invented in the wave of the modernization imitating the western sport bodies in the sense that anybody can be taught paying the tuition.
Importing the administrative bodies from karate or judo dojangs Koreans set up their own dojangs in various names of martial arts.
Some came to try to unify all those different martial art bodies proclaiming their own authenticities and traditionalities.
It was in 1950s that the national committee of establishing appellation of the unified martial art was set up comprising important figures representing the Korean society.
They came to agree on the new name of Taekwondo, representing the spirits of succeeding the traditional martial art of Taekyyon, almost the same sound of Taekwondo.
Many of the masters had experienced the Karate, exchanging the technical skills there, importing the dojang system along with Dan degree system.
Some had no contact with Karate.
One of them was Whang ki , the founder of Muduck Kwan dojang.
He said in his book my technical basis is taekkyyn but it has no systemic framework so now I establish it.
He said he combined all the martial arts from Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula.
Manchuria had been Koreans' cultural territories for thousands of years.
He was public official of the Korean railroad authorities , opening the dojaing in front of Seoul station.
Actually 70 % of Korean taekwondoists up until 1980s were from Mudouck dojang.
Another was Choi Honghee, a founder of Odokwan or Chongdokwan.
He learned Karate in Japan and imported the system vehemently actually introducing the appllation of Taekwondo first.
What is funny is so many new martial art purists in Korea are actually forming dojonag systems importing dan degree systems repeating the same job Taekwondo did 100 years ago, criticizing Taekwondo has the origin of Karate and claiming they are pure traditional martial artists.
Hangul is one of the most intuitive, interesting and easy to learn language. "A smart man should be able to learn in a single day, a dumb man in 10 days." Lol (supposedly the Korean leader said this) 안녕하세요!
Well it's true... Korean is easy to learn... If u try then u can learn it definitely!!! I also start learning Korean! And trust me it's not that hard😊 안녕하세요 여러분!!!
A day? I guess most people just need a couple of hours to learn Hangeul. :)
Me learning korean for 3 months : am I joke to u
The consonants are mostly pictures of what your tongue looks like when you create the sound.
The vowels are harder to remember, and there are a few subtle sounds that are confusing, but it is the most thoughtful alphabet I have ever seen.
The 500-year history of Korea, the Joseon Dynasty, was a society ruled by scholars and kings. The kings had to be smarter than the other scholars. They slept only five hours a day and spent most of the day discussing policies and studying academics. So, Hangeul is at a level that the king can make properly.
That printing invention... 200 years before Geūtenberg, we didn't know. Thanks.
Always look foward to your publishings.
The printing technology was imported from China. In China woodblock printing was invented around 650 AD and movable type around 1040 AD. The Koreans were the first to use cast iron movable type print.
@@stevenzheng5459 Yea was about to say that I mean the material is different but it was the same idea.
Unfortunately censorship and illiteracy stopped or delayed History and Science for hundreds of years.
As in ancient east Asia, what were the major printed books, why wouldn't hear or see one of these books or just a paper printed in Korea?
We see thousands of books that Gutenberg machines have done.
@@stevenzheng5459 The Koreans were the first to use a printing method that was far more efficient than what China uses and what the Germans used 200 years later. Stop taking credit for the achievements of other countries.
Let me add a bit more detail. "Admiral" Yi Sun-Shin was originally an army "General". In the Chosun Dynasty, there was no distinction between the army (Yook-Goon) and the navy (Soo-Goon), but they were mingled together. In his early career, Yi Sun-shin had fought well as an army general in the northern territory and after he was assigned to be a Soo-Goon commander in Chola-Province, he started to build his fleet including the turtle ships and invented his naval tactics that were used successfully against the Japanese invading force. This integrity enabled him to win an impossible battle of 13 vs 300 ships later.
for those wondering how the korean admiral with 13 ships beat over 300 of the japanese it's because of a strong current that he knew about and he positioned his ships behind it, and when the japanese approached all there ships got destroyed in the current. it was very smartly done
learned about lee soon shin in korean drama he was a boat maker.
It is an interesting point that the Japanese navy's casualties recorded from Japan's point of view were greater.
flatest of all asians owe everything to the USA, corea is the number one culture theives in the world and most unappreciative so they adopt more unwanted babies out to the USA than anywhere in the world who grow up because of their dna to be terrible monkeys who should have never been born. get a reality check you know nothing of asia or the culture stealers. look up youtube 'culture copycats of the world'
@@angelamanely9254 It's the GOAT
@angelamanely9254 Thats badass honestly. It's like he knew the waves intimately. Almost like being a blacksmith general and knowing how to construct useful armor for your men.
*MAD* RESPECT TO ADMIRAL YI, THE MARSHAL LORD OF LOYALTY 🙏
Yes 🙏
You should check out Extra Credits they have a series about him and it is epic
@@GanjaEnthusiast322 I have!
@@HxH2011DRA I think I nearly teared up in the last episode
@@GanjaEnthusiast322 I cry everytime
For everyone interested there is a movie called "The Admiral: Roaring Currents" about the battle of myeongnyang. Its grandious. Yi Sun-Sin was a great admiral.
Extra Credits did a great series on Admiral Yi. Worth checking out
This. High budget, really gives colour and character to the era. Several echoes around the internal political conflict, internal betrayal, and internal determinism and technological strength of Korea. www.imdb.com/title/tt3541262/
Yi Sun-sin:
Even though Korean wants to include Yi Sun-sin (李舜臣) as one of the three Greatest Admirals of the world, Horatio Nelson of the Britain who prevailed in the Battle of Trafalgar, John Paul Jones of the America who defeated the British for its independence, and Heihachiro Togo of Japan who defeated the Russia’s Baltic Fleet, he was not even a supreme commander, nor did he prevail in the battle that Koreans claim to have won.
To start with, throughout their history, Korea was the weakest in the region. Since the time of Yuan Dynasty, Korea had been a tribunary state of China for almost one thousand years. They always asked other countries to fight for Korea’s domestic issues like in the Korean War, and this is why they have no true national hero.
Yi Sun-sin was merely a commander of a fleet out of many Joseon fleets, certainly not the admiral or the commander of the Ming-Joseon Navy. Not only he failed to defeat the Japanese navy, he could not prevent them on the sea, allowing them to land on the Korean Peninsula.
Japan at the time was the hay days of samurai and had the largest number of guns in the world with many experienced samurai in communications and modern battle tactics of the day. Korea on the other hand was merely a tribunary state of Ming with NO guns. There is no way Korean could beat Japan by itself.
In fact, in the first dispatch, Japan conquered Seoul within one month, and Pyeongyang within two months capturing the princes of Joseon as a hostage while there was NO Japanese commander killed except for one who was assassinated during hawking.
The only military exploit that Yi Sun-sin had against Japan was when he attacked “a supply fleet” and temporally cut off its supply route. But this is by no means being destroyed or defeated. His strategies were more like those of pirates or guerrillas, setting fire on ships at night or attacking from the back of Japanese fleets after agreeing on cease-fire. Coward and so typical of the weak.
Later, since the military leader of Japan, Hideyoshi, who planned to conquer China through Korea, died of old age in Osaka, Japan agreed on cease-fire and retreated.
It is a blatant lie for Koreans to say that Yi Sun-sin was a great admiral of the world, defeated the Japanese navy, and is the one from whom the world’s other admirals learn from.
However, you could say that he had some brain, avoiding front-to-front battle with the mighty Japan.
Korean History:
When you talk about Korean history, the first thing you have to know is that almost no present day Korean can read their true official history since they cannot read Chinese characters in which their entire history was written.
The second thing is that Koreans did not leave much of written history and their first written official history book, Samguk Sagi, was only written in the 12th century. But even then, they do not refer to it much because there are so many shameful things written such as the kings of Silla were Japanese from Japan.
The third thing is that their history was “created” AFTER the WWII by South Korea when its independence was given by the US. There was urgent need to create its “history” to give the Government the legitimacy and to promote national pride to fight in the Korean War. Thus it had to be patriotic. So what they do is to cherry pick some points from ancient Chinese and Japanese documents and filled the gaps with fantasies.
No Koreans read their original. Nobody can even CHECK who is telling the truth. And they can only regurgitate the fabrications that their Government blatantly cocks up in order to hide the shameful part of their history including Jumong, Gojoseon and Goguryeo were not Korean but only conquered a part of Korea; the kings of Silla were Japanese from Japan; since the time of Yuan Dynasty, the Korean Peninsula was dependency of China for almost one thousand years; Korea was so poor and hopeless that their ancestors asked Japan to annex and modernize; the independence of South Korea was not fought for, but it was given by the US.
The truth is that the countries that existed in the Korean Peninsula were always weak since its soil is poor; weather is not favorable for crops; and there is not much resources. You can read books written by westerners who visited the Peninsula before the Japanese annexation. There are at least a half dozen of them with the most famous one being "Korea and Her Neighbors" by an English traveler, Isabella Bird. She says that Seoul was the dirtiest and smelliest place on Earth, and even in the main streets there were not cultural things like restaurants, tea houses, theaters, or even shops.
So just about everything you read and see about Korea’s history, that were “created" after the War and written not in Chinese but in Hangul (thus in English) such as Korean dramas, Wikipedia, recent history books, are all fabrications. South Korea even has a government body, the National Branding Council, to promote these fabrications by stealing other country’s history and cultures to gain the “soft power” for their economical profits. Their academics, corporations and public are all in this game led by the Government.
Several years ago, in response to China's and Korean's claims on Japan's history education, Stanford Uni. conducted research on the history education of five countries: China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and USA. They concluded that the history taught in Japan was the fairest; in China, propaganda; in Korea, fantasy.
Traditionally, being sandwiched by strong dynasties and countries such as Mongols, Chinese, Russians and Japanese, throughout its history, the weak and poor Koreans always had to lie, deceive and betray for their survival. Lies and fabrications have always been a part of their history, tradition and culture.
This is what Koreans say about themselves: according to the main editorial by the Chief Editor of Choson Ilbo, the biggest newspaper in South Korea, on Mar 6, 2012, Feb. 2, 2010 and Feb. 13, 2003, "Koreans lie as if they breathe” and “Koreans are the world’s biggest liar of all." Korea has the highest fraud rate and is the only country whose fraud rate exceeds that of robbery in OECD. Also, all of perjury, calumny and fraud rates in South Korea are some 160-670 times higher than those of Japan.
I hit north Korea
Vital context of the Korean history and culture. So obvious with places like the Korean peninsula, Israel/Palestine, Poland... They're in geographical "pass throughs" that make them perpetual targets of invasion and subjugation. Fascinating, resilient societies that stem from those circumstances. Another hit, Shirvan!
how is this comment 9h old when he uploaded 15min ago?
@@player3prime Patreon supporter. Early preview.
flatest of all asians owe everything to the USA, corea is the number one culture theives in the world and most unappreciative so they adopt more unwanted babies out to the USA than anywhere in the world who grow up because of their dna to be terrible monkeys who should have never been born. get a reality check you know nothing of asia or the culture stealers. look up youtube 'culture copycats of the world'
Great respect and admiration to Admiral Yi Sun Shin.
Extra credits made a few videos about him
Yi lost and was killed in the war against Japan.
@@hayek218 He won against Japan just with few ships and japanese ran away due to fear. Read some books don't talk like dumb.
Roshan B
At the end he lost and was killed in the battle
you have to see various records to objectively judge.
Just by reading Korean records would not get you anywhere.
Here you go:
According to the main editorial by the Chief Editor of Choson Ilbo, the biggest newspaper in South Korea, on Mar 6, 2012, Feb. 2, 2010 and Feb. 13, 2003, "Koreans lie as if they breathe” and “Koreans are the world’s biggest liar of all." Korea has the highest fraud rate and is the only country whose fraud rate exceeds that of robbery in OECD. Also, all of perjury, calumny and fraud rates in S Korea are some 160-670 times higher than those of Japan.
@@hayek218 Bro what do you have against Yi Sun Shin? Did he kill your family or what? Remember this everyone is going to die in end even you,me and Yi Sun Shin did die. Just leave me alone.
Thank you so much for your documentary of Korea I have always had a fascination of the ancient Asian nations of China, Japan, Korea and Mongolia. Since our ancestors are from nomadic people from the Ural we had similar background.
Us Poles, feel you Korean bros😸 🙋
I love the Witcher
If you say so...
Hi
Thanks, m8s!
The Witcher is good but GOG is the true gift from Poles. The bastion for anti-DRM.
Korea...the Poland of Asia
That doesn't seem like such a bad comparison, but then again I don't know terribly all that much about Korea so maybe it's not. It's always iffy comparing the situations of different States. Lots of different moving parts.
dimsum9797 you were right, but Korean weaponries were more advanced in tech than Poland at the time Yi sun sin (sorry for mispellled his name) was alive
Except Poland was an idiot that kept provoking its immediate neighbors (Prussia & Russia) while foolishly indulging in their "Golden Liberty" which paralyzed the Sejm for over a century. Korea meanwhile used its stronger neighbor to its advantage. For example this video forgot to mention that Admiral Yi sailed with a large Chinese support fleet, and the Chinese Vice Admiral was killed during the decisive battle that took Yi's life.
Day Y. For being a provocateur of ita own neighbour with a narrowed land, Poland is still running its their territory even today
@Duterte compare the map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Poland today and see just how much they've lost (not to mention being completely absent for 123 years before 1918). Meanwhile the two Koreas put together still hold all the core Korean lands. South Korea in particular is considered a "tiger economy" of Asia, while Poland is 'meh' in the EU at best.
Took a DNA test & found out I’m part Korean, so here I am 안녕하세요 ❤️
Admiral Yi Sun Sin is the most respected korean and admiral in history!!! ❤
i totally agree with you !!
Turns out I'm one of his descendants (mom's side)
Wearing Chinese armor and Japanese sword. What a liar.
Chinese sent army to Korea and fought there for seven years. That did not get mentioned in this video. Sorry for the Korean.
@@wenhelu3250
Korean history is all fantasy.
Everything is born from Korea including the universe.
Wow. I'm 5 years to two years behind on these absolutely facinating geo political histories. Many l am familiar with, the others are filling in the blanks. Thank you for being on of the most entertaining entity on social enlightenment I've had the luck to scroll up/down on...because it hard to pick one, or a dozen to watch. Kudos.
Fyi, ancient Japan wasn't never powerhouse, they largely depended on larger Korean kingdoms.
lmao
conan263 no during the occupation they were forced to speak japanese. They werr even stripped of their korean names amd given japanese names
Both Japan and Korea massively relied on China though. Language, culture, arts, technology, philosophy, music, fashion, basically everything has roots from China.
I think the Mongolian invasion to Japen finally give Japen its geopolitical difference as nation.
It was remotely far away even Japanese themselves couldn't awards invation from out of Japen
Basically the historical relationship between China, Japan and Korea is like the one between the UK, France and Germany, like a bunch of squabbling siblings.
China has been teaching Gojoseon, Goguryeo, and Balhae in Chinese history since 1994!! In addition, they claim that traditional Korean clothes such as hanbok and gat, and traditional Korean foods such as kimchi, samgyetang, and samgyeopsal are also Chinese food! Pizza is originally from China, and Genghis Khan is also Chinese Vietnamese rice noodles!! I'm really embarrassed by the distortion of Chinese history 🤣🤣
It is though, idk how people think these cultures have so much in common. Did the koreans appear from thin air and just so happen to be just like their neighbours?
I had to quit halfway. wangkon did not break off from silla. yamato did not cause the "growth" of silla and baekjae. baekjaes capital on the map you have shown was not Seoul as of today
can't believe the dude said that.
Hyunje Lee if your history is misrepresented , speak up ! I don’t k ow any better and you guys are letting this guy tell me.
As a representative of a small nation , I know how frustrated I get when my country’s history is mangled .
This video is actually pretty bad, falling short of Caspian Report's usually excellent standards. I am not even halfway through and I already note two major errors.
1. Wang Gun, the founder of the Goryeo dynasty, did NOT establish an understanding with the Japanese in order to reunite the Korean peninsula. Japan at the time was in chronic turmoil under the ineffectual rule of Heian emperors, and was in no position to intervene in foreign states.
2. Wang Gun did not get the name of "Goryeo" from nowhere. He and his northern noble supporters considered themselves part of the ancient Goguryeo, who had shortened their name to Goryeo sometime in the 5th century AD. From Wang Gun's perspective, he was merely establishing the rightful rule of Goguryeo/Goryeo over the Korean peninsula. This is really important because numerous Manchurian dynasties could have, and did try to, claim Goguryeo heritage, but in the end Koreans got it due to Goryeo.
Kinda disappointed by the quality of this video, to be honest.
and who the hell are U?
@@LordNuDTru141 Someone who knows more Korean history than the Caspian Report, clearly.
@@emperor68188 2 U all things I am sure are clear as a crystal, not true senor BIGDONG?
@@LordNuDTru141 Most of the time, yeah. Pretty clear.
Not impressed. Japan was not a threat until 1590 and recently 1910. So the explanation that korea was sandwiched between china and japan is inaccurate.
The threat mostly came from Northern tribes, not China or Japan.
Korean History:
When you talk about Korean history, the first thing you have to know is that almost no present day Korean can read their true official history since they cannot read Chinese characters in which their entire history was written.
The second thing is that Koreans did not leave much of written history and their first written official history book, Samguk Sagi, was only written in the 12th century. But even then, they do not refer to it much because there are so many shameful things written such as the kings of Silla were Japanese from Japan.
The third thing is that their history was “created” AFTER the WWII by South Korea when its independence was given by the US. There was urgent need to create its “history” to give the Government the legitimacy and to promote national pride to fight in the Korean War. Thus it had to be patriotic. So what they do is to cherry pick some points from ancient Chinese and Japanese documents and filled the gaps with fantasies.
No Koreans read their original. Nobody can even CHECK who is telling the truth. And they can only regurgitate the fabrications that their Government blatantly cocks up in order to hide the shameful part of their history including Jumong, Gojoseon and Goguryeo were not Korean but only conquered a part of Korea; the kings of Silla were Japanese from Japan; since the time of Yuan Dynasty, the Korean Peninsula was dependency of China for almost one thousand years; Korea was so poor and hopeless that their ancestors asked Japan to annex and modernize; the independence of South Korea was not fought for, but it was given by the US.
The truth is that the countries that existed in the Korean Peninsula were always weak since its soil is poor; weather is not favorable for crops; and there is not much resources. You can read books written by westerners who visited the Peninsula before the Japanese annexation. There are at least a half dozen of them with the most famous one being "Korea and Her Neighbors" by an English traveler, Isabella Bird. She says that Seoul was the dirtiest and smelliest place on Earth, and even in the main streets there were not cultural things like restaurants, tea houses, theaters, or even shops.
So just about everything you read and see about Korea’s history, that were “created" after the War and written not in Chinese but in Hangul (thus in English) such as Korean dramas, Wikipedia, recent history books, are all fabrications. South Korea even has a government body, the National Branding Council, to promote these fabrications by stealing other country’s history and cultures to gain the “soft power” for their economical profits. Their academics, corporations and public are all in this game led by the Government.
Several years ago, in response to China's and Korean's claims on Japan's history education, Stanford Uni. conducted research on the history education of five countries: China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and USA. They concluded that the history taught in Japan was the fairest; in China, propaganda; in Korea, fantasy.
Traditionally, being sandwiched by strong dynasties and countries such as Mongols, Chinese, Russians and Japanese, throughout its history, the weak and poor Koreans always had to lie, deceive and betray for their survival. Lies and fabrications have always been a part of their history, tradition and culture.
This is what Koreans say about themselves: according to the main editorial by the Chief Editor of Choson Ilbo, the biggest newspaper in South Korea, on Mar 6, 2012, Feb. 2, 2010 and Feb. 13, 2003, "Koreans lie as if they breathe” and “Koreans are the world’s biggest liar of all." Korea has the highest fraud rate and is the only country whose fraud rate exceeds that of robbery in OECD. Also, all of perjury, calumny and fraud rates in South Korea are some 160-670 times higher than those of Japan.
@@augusthayek231 I can't believe what you say.
What you say is a lie.
Do you think history scholars in Korea can be anyone?
@@commonsense7258
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Look and compare the raw data from police statistics of OECD countries.
You are a miserable liar nation.
www.quora.com/Its-easy-to-see-why-Koreans-hate-Japanese-but-why-do-Japanese-hate-Koreans/answer/August-Hayek#
Indeed, ancient Japan was not a threat, but a mighty nation to admire for Korean kingdoms such as Shilla or Baekje in old times.
For instance, the Book of Sui (隋書), one of the official Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China, says as follow:
"Both Shilla and Baekje revered Wa as a superpower with plenty of rare and precious things. Therefore, they would often send their envoys to Wa respectively." (新羅百濟皆以倭為大國 多珍物並敬仰之 恒通使往來)
I'm History teacher in Korea. and I tell you guys this video is basically inaccurate in so many ways.
1. This video assume that current geographics of power are the same as ancient ones. But they're NOT. does America was always super power in the world from the beginning? No. same as Japan.
2. Go-jo-seon dynasty was started at northern part of China. Not Pyeong-yang. but surely they move to Pyeong-yang.
3. Kingdom of Go-gu-ryeo was not started in Pyeong-yang either. they started at Jilin province of nowdays China.
4. Kingdom of Yamato was basically small country which does not include whole of japan. so trade with japan has NOT that dramatic impact on Koreans. however trade with Korea and China benefits alot to Japan. so they switch their main material from STONE to IRON.
5. Wang-gun who founded Kingdom of Goryeo was not focused on Japan or China. in that time, China was devided as well as Japan too.
just stop this nonsense already. I stop watching this video at this point. there is so many errors in here. I can literally write a paper about this.
Korea has crucial role in Asian history. Korea had the leverage of balance of power between Chinese and Nomadic people such as Mongolians and Manchurians. roughly until 15 century, Japan was not that big deal.
Many people understands korean history by this falsy video and I'm deeply sorry.
Korean Peninsula was a dependency of China for almost one thousand years. It was Japan that made it independent.
Go-gu-ryeo was not Korean. They are different people. The ruling people were Jurchen.
Japanese iron production method Tatara has nothing to do with Korea.
@G-G E ?????
It is YOU who cannot read your own true history as they are all written In Chinese.
It is YOU who cannot even check who is telling the truth.
Your history is so sad that your government decided to teach you fantasies instead.
Before USA, Canada, Mexico and many countries in central and South America largest of which is Brazil there were many tribes that ruled before that Mayan, Aztec, Incas, Cherokees, Apaches, Navajo and many more.
finally someone who know the essence of eastasian history
@@hayek218 ㄴㄴ 한국은 중국의 종속된 적 없어. 종속된 기간의 합은 133년이고 종속시킨 국가는 몽골과 일본이야. 그리고 고구려가 korea야. 한국 조상이 맞다. 오히려 중국이야 말로 항상 몽골한테 털리기만 했지. 사실상 중국은 몽골의 역사지 뭐
Thank you for this contribution to Korean history. Even though some of parts are still controversial such as Gojoseon (not Bc 700 but earlier than Bc4,000 placed in Manchuria influencing to china, you can study 'the Hongsan culture' heritage which was regarded of the origin of Gojoseon), I reckon broadly understanding. Once again thank you.
You're laughing at me!Koreans are descendants of Silla people, and Silla people arrived in the eastern part of the Korean peninsula from the Russian Far East along the coastline!This is also the reason why Korean is Tungusic language family! Koreans like fantasy, after all, the tragic slave history ~
flatest of all asians owe everything to the USA, corea is the number one culture theives in the world and most unappreciative so they adopt more unwanted babies out to the USA than anywhere in the world who grow up because of their dna to be terrible monkeys who should have never been born. get a reality check you know nothing of asia or the culture stealers. look up youtube 'culture copycats of the world'
I don't think Japan was any significant in Asian history until much later therefore Korea being in the tug of war wouldn't be correct assessment while describing Korean history from the Gojoseon period. Japan pretty much skipped bronze age because of Gaya Confederate.
lupi mali Ancient Japan is just an shithole.
@アイヌは原住民ではない。 if you read into it my heritage blends japan/korea seeing as they share so much common DNA.
アイヌは原住民ではない。
I’ve seen that one before. Copied striaght from August Hayek’s Quora answer?
@アイヌは原住民ではない。 Japan is so stupid that it got itself nuked 3 times. Nuff said.
RisingSunCountry you are disgusting just like your profile picture and name
Japan in the ancient times wasn't a major power to be recognized with
well it had deep relationships between Baekje and Gaya but superpower? Nope i don't think so untill they attacked at 1592 they weren't the force to be recognized
But still the pirates was major problem
@クックルーコッケコ you need to study history well. Most Pirates in the North East Asia are from japan islands.
@クックルーコッケコ August Hayek
@田中原健三 shit ass
ancient japan wasnt major threat to korea and china exept for their pirates (wako).
but japan began to surpass korea since 15C ~ 16C
hydrolito It is true that Japan stopped Mongolia, but Korea also surrendered after fighting for 40 years with Mongolia. Those who do not know well know that Korea was immediately occupied by Mongolia. At that time, Korea (the Goryeo Dynasty) fought a terrible war with Mongolia for 40 years. Because of the island nature of Japan, Mongolia could not use the tactics of being driven by horsemen, which is their advantage, and Japan was able to defend to some extent because they had to fight the landing war by ship.
Historically, Korea survived thousands of years of invasion by the nomadic dynasties of China and the north, whereas Japan lived well among themselves without foreign invasion thanks to its geographical advantage.
Mongolia stabbed Japan several times, Japan luckily won several battles, and the Mongolian fleet was seriously damaged by a typhoon. Mongolia just withdrew without feeling the value of putting much effort into Japan. This is because Mongolia has nothing to gain by occupying that island.
But the Japanese are proud of it that they have defeated the strongest Mongolia on their own.
In that regard, compared to Japan, which won several battles, is Korea the strongest country that has fought against Mongolia for 40 years?
Korea surrendered because the entire country was burned by the war for 40 years and the people could not stand suffering anymore.
I do not know why, but Mongolia did not destroy Korea, which resisted them.
it always fascinates me how history repeat itself and shape our modern time.. it's like we are stuck in a never ending cycle
The world's first movable type printing press technology for printing paper books was made of porcelain materials and was invented around AD 1040 in China during the Northern Song Dynasty by the inventor Bi Sheng (990-1051).
Subsequently in 1377, the world's oldest extant movable metal print book, Jikji(If you search the picture of this book you will find out it was written in Chinese), was printed in Korea during the Goryeo dynasty.
@@paulhan1615 DNA and skull analysis showed the Founder of Shang Dynasty who created the hanja script were immigrants who came from the Liaodong/liaohua area, which is the birthplace of korean civilization. The concept of korea and china did not exist 3000 bc. We both influenced each other.
Hongshan Culture was in the Bohai region dates back to 4700 BC which is also the birthplace of Gojoseon which was founded 2333 BC. The most likely scenario is the Bohai region is birthplace of East Asian civilization and from there civilization branched to China and Korea.
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Manchuria has nothing to do with Koreans. They are Jurchen and Xianbei. They conquered the northern part of Korean Peninsula and run Goguryeo but Koreans were like the Hans during the Qing dynasty. Claiming their history and cultures as yours is like Poland claiming Germany's history and cultures.
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Gojoseon is not Korean country. They were founded by Chinese
@@hayek218 No such thing as Chinese or Korean 4000 years ago. Korea and China have shared heritage. Stop being nationalistic
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But they have nothing to do with Koreans. You cannot steal other history.
I've learnt many things about Goryeo from K-DRAMA only 😂 😂 😂
I seriously don't get why Koreans and Chinese have developed such resentment against each other. Korea's worst nightmares were not Chinese (that is, ethnic Hans) or Japan. They have been for several times but the real threats were the northern tribes which were nightmares for Hans as well. First, Xianbei almost destroyed both Buyeo and Goguryeo (especially the Muong Xianbei) and became significant threats to many Hans dynasty in the south, then Khitan devastated Balhae and Goryeo and Song Empire. After this, Jurchens came and they fought both Goryeo and Song consequently. The Mongols came after this (and you know what happened.) The reason Joseon sticked so much close to China is because they feared that the Jurchens still lurking in the Southern Manchuria region might get strong again and invade them. (Which they did) The only times in history where Korea and Hans came directly into conflict is Gojoseon-Yan War in the late 4th century BC, Gojoseo-Han War in the 109~108 BC, Goguryeo-Sui, Tang War (this can be controversial as well since Tang had an alliance with another Korean kingdom Silla) and Tang-Silla war (which both countries reconcilled with each other right after the war).
I seriously don't think Chinese hate Korean(as a Chinese myself), not sure why Korean hate Chinese either.
paul han yes you depicted the very Game-Of-Thrones-like history in east Asia, seven kingdoms, wildlings, white walkers. Woe is our Song dynasty, what a great period of commercialism and inventions, ruined by all sorts of wildlings and white walkers.
Once again you have gavin us a master piece in such a shot time thank you bro.
Off topic but your accent and voice in general is really calming. Works out that I can get some history lessons in as I try to fall asleep. Win win situation
Hey Caspian report, please make a video on the geopolitics of the Caspian sea, (in regards to the recent Aktau agreement.)
I think he touched on that subject in one of the previous videos, albeit not in the light of the Aktau agreement that you mentioned.
The Baekje, Silla, Gaya weren't rebel states of Goguryeo; they started from uniting cheifdoms that existed under influence of Joseon(Early Joseon). Silla wasn't in a position that had to balance out China and Japan; Japan was pretty much irrelevant to the outer world until 16th century as they were disunited and behind in military tech. Silla's main military concerns were Balhae(Korean kingdom that everyone forgets to mention) and Goryeo's main military concerns were northern nomadic peoples of manchus/turks/mongols, Japanese pirates(waku), and China. Japan grew far stronger than Korea in their warring states period in 15th century.
Movable type was invented in China by Bi Sheng in the 11th century. The Koreans innovated by making caste iron movable type (the Chinese used ceramic, wood, and later bronze).
Yeah, I heard about that. But does it exist now? I also heard that it got destroyed by the red guards during the cultural revolution.
Bi Sheng's original movable type is gone (way before the cultural revolution). However, the technology persisted and spread across East and Central Asia for the next 500 years. When the Jesuits visited China from 1600-1800 AD, they were impressed by the efficiency of China's printing presses. Printing presses in East Asia were less mechanized compared to Gutenburg's press. We don't press the type on the paper. Instead we press the paper on the type.
Steven Zheng But the oldest "existing" paper printing technology can be referred to Koreans, or are there any other candidates?
I'm not sure actually. I know printed books from the Tang and Song dynasty still exist. The Tang dynasty used woodblock printing (check out the Diamond Sutra). Song dynasty books were printed using movable type.
Steven Zheng Well, if that's the case, Korean scholars and professors will definitely accept it. Just in case you take us for "unreasonable" people.
Oh! Thank you for uploading this video!!
I really love south korea!!!
I love Shirvan's voice. It has an underlying charm and uniqueness to it.
pornhub voice
He has that Azerbaijani accent
@@khankavkaz6505 Represent!
👍👍👍
I’m skeptical that the Korean Japanese war was more destructive than the Taiping Rebellion
Look up Imjinwaeran in 1592 and 1598. It was literally an Asian nations World war.
Now yall know why Yi Sun Shin is standing middle of Seoul in front of King Sejong the Great 👑
If Balhae is not a Korean dynasty, Sui, Tang, Jin, Qing and every other "Chinese" dynasty that is ruled by North Asian nomadic tribes are not Chinese dynasties. Seriously who tf call someone babarian the whole time and embrace him as a family all of a sudden because of the territories?
Sui and Tang are mixed. The emperors of Sui and Tang recognize themselves as Han Chinese while they sometimes get married with nomadic wives.
@@zhangshujian7762 And the king of Balhae clearly stated his kingdom was a successor of Goguryeo. I don't know what the problem is.
The Japanese Empire also once ruled the Korean Peninsula, so can we conclude that the Japanese Empire is the Kingdom of Korea?
@@herosio270 I know right? CCP think Balhae is Chinese history because Balhae ruled the current "Chinese territory" which is Manchuria. That's just plain stupid.
The history of a country can be classified into territorial history and ethnic history. It is evident that the history of Balhae occurred on the territory of China, and of course, it is part of the history of China's territory. Also, don't forget that modern Manchus have already integrated into China, and the ancestral history of Manchus is also eligible for inclusion in Chinese history books. The region to which the name '中國' belongs is dynamic, initially only in the area of Henan Province.China itself is a melting pot of East Asian ethnic groups, which may not be well understood by Koreans.@@alessandrovialpando609
< Timeline of Korea history >
Go-Joseon
: BC 2333 ~ BC 108
Three kingdoms
: BC 37~AD 668
- Goguryeo : N of Korea
- Baekje : SW of Korea
- Silla : SE of Korea
Unified Silla
: AD 676~935
Goryeo (originality of Korea name)
: 918~1392
Joseon : 1393~1896
Empire of Korea
: 1897~1910
Japanese colonial era
: 1910~1945
Korea : 1948~present
- Korean War
: 1950~1953
- the division of South
and North Korea
The historically strongest countries were Goguryeo and Goryeo.
Great video with amazing contents.
Just letting u know. Manchuria was not a Chinese territory. It was found by mainly Korean and Mongolian people.
It has been united dynastically, after founding the Qing dynasty as Chinese empire
Japan's invasion of Joseon was the same as America's invasion of Britain. The Korean Peninsula was the root and parent country of Japanese culture.
Well I did know anything about Korea history Thank you for this video
Far too many mistakes in this video though. The movable type printing press was invented in China a few hundred years before Korea took it and made a metal version of it. China also had lots of conflicts that were much more destructive than that war. The Taiping rebellion alone had a crazy death toll with conservative estimates numbering at 20 to 30 million, let alone the mongol invasion and other civil wars. For context, 17 million people died in World War 1. Shirvan's Achilles heel is East Asia it seems.
Adam G not to mention the red turban rebellion by which Ming took power, the Mongol devastation of the Jurchen dynastie of Jin...i mean cmon Asia is too big.
Colin Demeulemeester I know ,this is a starter for me
Silla was alliance’s with China while Baekjae was alliance with japan. Eventually, silla won Baekjae. And goguryeo was up against silla. But they were surrounded by silla and the northern borders. Goguryeo fell and silla won the Korean Peninsula
The name of Korea comes from Goguryeo (BC 37 or 3rd century - AD 668), the name of which had been later changed by its king into Goryeo, or/and Goguryeo was sometimes called Goryeo, even before Silla unified three kingdoms(Goguryeo, Baekje[BC 18 - AD 660], smaller Silla[BC 57-AD 676]). Some rulers of Goguryeo founded Balhae after the fall of Goguryeo, claiming it to be a successor of Goguryeo.
Goguryeo or the "first" Goryeo originated from Buyeo, and Buyeo was founded at the place of Go-Joseon. "Old" Joseon or Go-Joseon was the first Korean kingdom and its name was just "Joseon" at its time, but for distinguishing from "later"/"Yi" Joseon, it is now called "Go(=old)-Joseon". Baekje came from the royal family of Goguryeo.
When greater/unified Silla (AD 676 - 935) weakened later, "new" Goryeo replaced the unified Silla, claiming that the new royal court succeeded "old" Goryeo (i.e., Goguryeo). "New" Goryeo (AD 918-1392) was a trade country where even muslim merchants came for businesses from the Middle East and its name was known to foreign countries as "Core", "Corea", and current "Korea" etc.
"Yi" Joseon (1392-1897)replaced "new" Goryeo, with the same name of the "old" Joseon kingdom.
Sum: Go("old")-Joseon->Buyeo->three kingdoms->greater Silla (+ Balhae in the North, which also claimed to succeed the fallen Goguryeo, but when Balhae fell later, its rulers were accepted by "new" Goryeo)-> "new" Goryeo -> "Yi" Joseon or just Joseon -> 20th century history of colonialism(1910-1945), provisional government (1919-45), division into north/south Koreas(1945-), Korean republic-building (1948-), and war in 1950-3, and now.
You failed to state the movement from the Kingdom of Balhae that basically started the Korean people.
flatest of all asians owe everything to the USA, corea is the number one culture theives in the world and most unappreciative so they adopt more unwanted babies out to the USA than anywhere in the world who grow up because of their dna to be terrible monkeys who should have never been born. get a reality check you know nothing of asia or the culture stealers. look up youtube 'culture copycats of the world'
Goguryeo -> Goryeo -> Corea -> Korea!
No
Gojoseon->Goguryeo->Goryeo->joseon->corea->korea!
@경주최씨 아는데..ㅡㅡ
When you study East Asian history deeply enough, you would realize Japan was never a powerhouse until importation of muskets from Portuguese and unification by Oda Nobunaga, Daimyo of Owari.
The population and economic power of Japan surpassed Korea in 13th century when the peninsula was completely devastated by 40 years of mongol invasion. Soon Koreans established their own regime and occupied liaodong peninsula(which was de jure of Korea at that time) having political struggle with Ming over suzerainity of Jurchen tribes, Muromachi bakufu began to collapse; eventually leading to 100 years of internal struggle(Senkoku jidai) so they weren't a problem as a nation(except wokou pirates raided the coastline resident of Ming and Joseon).
Most of the Manchria used to be Koreans' historical sphere.
There are still many ethnic Koreans living there.
It was only 1949 China firmly secured its administrative body over the region.
KoJoseon and subsequently Kororuyo ruled almost all Northern part of China, defeating Chinese forces many times.
Jurins having established Ching China was actually part of the Korean heritages, sharing the same bloodline and language by which they could communicate with each other without interpreters.
Kojoseon's capital used to be located in the northern Manchria before it was relocated to Pyongyang.
And the history is really complicated.
So many theories compete against one another over the influence of China on the ancient Korea dynasties.
This clip is a little bit oversimplified.
放你狗屁！！众所周知，宇宙的起源是韩国。
Korea map before Japanese annexation, that is the size
I was watching this with the volume turned off by accident while listening to "A Way Of Life" and it made this 10x more epic
How great! You collected a lot of data. I haven't ever seen these paintings and videos on any other channel. Thank you for your special effort.
ADMIRAL YI 💖 💖 💖!!!
Yi Sun-sin:
Even though Korean wants to include Yi Sun-sin (李舜臣) as one of the three Greatest Admirals of the world, Horatio Nelson of the Britain who prevailed in the Battle of Trafalgar, John Paul Jones of the America who defeated the British for its independence, and Heihachiro Togo of Japan who defeated the Russia’s Baltic Fleet, he was not even a supreme commander, nor did he prevail in the battle that Koreans claim to have won.
To start with, throughout their history, Korea was the weakest in the region. Since the time of Yuan Dynasty, Korea had been a tribunary state of China for almost one thousand years. They always asked other countries to fight for Korea’s domestic issues like in the Korean War, and this is why they have no true national hero.
Yi Sun-sin was merely a commander of a fleet out of many Joseon fleets, certainly not the admiral or the commander of the Ming-Joseon Navy. Not only he failed to defeat the Japanese navy, he could not prevent them on the sea, allowing them to land on the Korean Peninsula.
Japan at the time was the hay days of samurai and had the largest number of guns in the world with many experienced samurai in communications and modern battle tactics of the day. Korea on the other hand was merely a tribunary state of Ming with NO guns. There is no way Korean could beat Japan by itself.
In fact, in the first dispatch, Japan conquered Seoul within one month, and Pyeongyang within two months capturing the princes of Joseon as a hostage while there was NO Japanese commander killed except for one who was assassinated during hawking.
The only military exploit that Yi Sun-sin had against Japan was when he attacked “a supply fleet” and temporally cut off its supply route. But this is by no means being destroyed or defeated. His strategies were more like those of pirates or guerrillas, setting fire on ships at night or attacking from the back of Japanese fleets after agreeing on cease-fire. Coward and so typical of the weak.
Later, since the military leader of Japan, Hideyoshi, who planned to conquer China through Korea, died of old age in Osaka, Japan agreed on cease-fire and retreated.
It is a blatant lie for Koreans to say that Yi Sun-sin was a great admiral of the world, defeated the Japanese navy, and is the one from whom the world’s other admirals learn from.
However, you could say that he had some brain, avoiding front-to-front battle with the mighty Japan.
@HoiNam Superior Southern Chinese does it realy matter?
@HoiNam Superior Southern Chinese I think they are better than you who can't even spell "Korea"
@HoiNam Superior Southern Chinese haha i think you have racism
@@augusthayek231 stop copy and paste wrong fact, nobody reads dude
Not very accurate and somewhat misleading and simplified narratives.
wow, Korea is at the center of so much of east asian history. It's easy to understand the history of Japan, China and the Xiongnu/Jerchen people through the lens of Korean history.
Admiral Yi Sun Shin wasn't well known when he was still alive even after winning the battle in the sea. His king were afraid that people will love Admiral more than him so he made sure Admiral Yi Sun Shin will be put on his place. But centuries later, his legacy was still remembered and even Japanese people know him very well. Foreigners know Admiral Yi Sun Shin more than Korean which is quite shocking. Truth hurts but now, Korean people acknowledge all his work and legacy. His patriotism will forever be remembered even the highest heavens are amazed by his mindset. Watch the movie about him guys. You will be amazed for sure.
www.quora.com/Its-easy-to-see-why-Koreans-hate-Japanese-but-why-do-Japanese-hate-Koreans/answer/August-Hayek
Thank you for producing these reports. They are well-written and visually beautiful.
great history video, id like to see more of these
Geopolitics of Central Asia.
Korean history
invaded by China
invaded by Mongolia
invaded by Manchurian
invaded by Japan
invaded by US and Soviet
fin
“...leading to a quarter million dead... is the Most destructive conflict in East Asian up till WWII” apparently the author didn’t know about the taiping rebellion in China...
Thank you for this fascinating video. Love your work.
It’s like the Poland of Asia-- stuck in the middle !
Yes and no... In Modern days and recent history yes I'd agree with you but historically Korea actually suffered from the opposite. It was too peaceful. They didn't mind being a trade tributary with China and Japan at the time was far too weak to do anything. Ancient Japan wasn't very strong. Ancient Korea was strong but all that peace caused them to become weak and there was a lot of infighting causing them to become corrupt.
I've been to South Korea during the Korean War 1951 to 1953 served at Soul and Busan .
Thank you
It was an especially brutal war. And it's extremely regrettable that the superpowers of the time let it happen.
goguryeo -->goryeo( The mean is to continue Goguryeo.)
To foreigners, goryeo called Korea.
Traditional Chinese countries usually use one letter to national name. su ,dang,jin,myung.
Just by name, Koreans are goguryeo's descendants.
But the Chinese deny it.
we all came from China?
Because they are the center of the world and univers. right?
avengers also chinese. yes everything is china.
Sphinx is also china. Because they're making a fake.
Because the whole world is theirs.
goguryeo -->goryeo( The mean is to continue Goguryeo.)
To foreigners, goryeo called Korean???
the Russians call China the Khitan（китай ）. Is China the Khitan? ？
There are many Korean historical claims that are obviously fake，such as Dangun Joseon
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Chinese history books only appeared Gija Joseon 箕子朝鮮and Wiman Joseon衛滿朝鮮, not Dangun Joseon 檀君朝鮮
Dangun Joseon was first mentioned in Samguk Yusa (1281)《三國遺事》, written 3600 years after the time of“Dangun Joseon”.
It‘s so funny！！ Korean want to create an ancestor to replace Jizi and Wiman
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Before the Han Dynasty, the Korean Peninsula did not have its own writing system
What administration system did "Gojoseon" adopted to rule such a large territory ？
How to convey the emperor's order ？
How to record your own history？
According to the Samguk Sagi, the Goguryeo royal family claimed descent from the Gaoyang高陽氏， surname of "Gao/Go" (高)
高朱蒙（Go Jumong）
Why did Goguryeo claim that their ancestors were Chinese?
How Do You Explain This：
Modern Korean = 20% to 37%O2b[Southeast Asia]+ 40%O3[East Asia]+15%C-M217[Northeast Asia]
O2a and O2b share a common ancestor O2
O1 and O2 share a common ancestor O-F265
Today O1 and O2a are southeast Asians. What made Koreans think O2 (b) origins were "Northeast Asians"?
O1=Austronesian languages= Indonesia+Malaysia+Philippines..............
O2a=Austroasiatic languages=Vietnam+Khmer...............
O2b=Korean+Janpan+Vietnam+Indonesia..........
O1+O2a=Tai-Kadai languages=Thailand+Laos+Zhuang..........
O3 originated in Yunnan or Burma
O3 (M122) =Sino-Tibetan(M134)+Hmong-Mien(M7)
Hmong-Mien=Hmong (Miao)+ Mien (Yao) ............
Sino-Tibetan=Han+Tibetan+Burmese+Tujia..............
Y-chromosome haplogroup O3 is a common DNA marker in Han Chinese, as it appeared in China in prehistoric times. It is found in more than 50% of Chinese males, and ranging up to over 80% in certain regional subgroups of the Han ethnicity
C-M217= Central Asian peoples+ indigenous Siberians...................
In the past
Manchuria=Donghu東胡+Sushen肅慎+Fuyu扶餘+Xianbei鮮卑+Chinese（東夷/Dongyi/Longshan culture ）
Mongolian ancestors belong to Donghu蒙兀室韋
Manchu ancestors belong to Sushen肅慎
Goguryeo ancestors belong to Buyeo扶餘
Turkish people ancestors belong to Xianbei鲜卑
The haplogroup O3-M122 was found in Longshan culture and is now common in Sino-Tibetan populations
Korean nationalists claim that their Y-DNA was O2b
But
O2b is not related to Central Asia and Siberia
O2b is descedant of O2, which is descedant of O, O origin is southeast-asia.
Siberia haplogroup ratio [O2b 0%]
Mongolians haplogroup ratio [O2b 0%]
Turkish haplogroup ratio [O2b 0%]
Hongshan Culture haplogroup ratio [O2b 0%]
Liao civilization
N1(xN1a, N1c) was found in ancient bones of Liao civilization
Niuheliang (Hongshan Culture, 6500-5000 BP) 66.7%(=4/6)
Halahaigou (Xiaoheyan Culture, 5000-4200 BP) 100.0%(=12/12)
Dadianzi (Lower Xiajiadian culture, 4200-3600 BP) 60.0%(=3/5)
This region was thought to have been desert for the past 1 million years. However, a 2015 study found that the region once featured rich aquatic resources and deep lakes and forests that existed from 12,000 years ago to 4,000 years ago. It was changed into desert by climate change which began approximately 4,200 years ago.Therefore, people of the Hongshan culture may have emigrated to the south approximately 4,000 years ago and later influenced Chinese culture.
Hongshan Culture is related to Yi people[30%]，Lhoba people [34%] and “Han”
If Koreans originate from the Liao River Civilization
then their yDNA should belong to N1
But today Koreans belong to O2b
It contrast with korean's claim
그리고 니 말대로면 더 과거로 가면 모든인류는 한종족인데 왜 중국에서. 시작된것을 기원으로 잡지? 더 예전 쥬라기 원시인부터 역사를 시작해라.
이거 부터가 니가 중국 마약쳐맞은 정신병자라는 증거다.
Anybody else here because of watching 'the kingdom' on Netflix? I'm half Korean myself and didn't know anything about the history of korea till now
Japan has a high literacy rate for hundreds of years. It was higher than that of European countries. For a long time in Japan, the language culture was rich and the rational culture was mature. On the Korean Peninsula, slavery existed 100 years ago. Nearly 40% of the total population of Korea was a slave. Korea's literacy rate at that time was 6%. Japan abolished slavery in Korea. Korea, which was dominated by the dynasty of the day, monopolized the wealth of the poor Korean with a slight privilege class. The Korean citizens lived in a straw climbing roof, education, medical care and social systems were the poorest countries. The king of Korea was unable to suppress the rebellion of large farmers in Korea that occurred at the time. Then the king asked Japan and China to send troops to Korea. After suppressing that revolt, Ito (former Japanese prime minister) got angry that the king of Korea "why did you devastate Korea so far?"
I've learnt many history from other nation from my channel than I got in my book.
The Poland of Asia.
Poland at least had the history of being the largest country in Europe, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but Koreans really hadn't been that strong ever
DeepDark Fantasy well Kogoryou as they want to make their history actually ruled over modern Manchuria which is larger than Japanese total land mass if you count..
lol
DeepDark Fantasy, look up Goguryeo (Koryŏ). It's where the name Korea comes from. This video only skims the surface of Korean history, not to mention that it makes a bunch of mistakes.
I wasn't talking about the 'Koera' name, but the 'Joseon' one
Goryeo is pronounced as 'go-ryuh'. Nice video!
This video is beautiful and sensational. Basically for five reasons. First, this material of Caspian Report is about a country - Korea, of course - which in general, is not the focus in a synthetic frame like this video. Second, I was very surprised about the facts the Korean history, like the defeat of the Japanese navy in the past and others; Third, the fascinating geopolitical vision, demonstrating how much of the world people's history and culture are a geography product, in this case, focusing de History of Korea; Fourth, the video illuminate about the contradictions of the Reunification Matter, the economic disparities between North/South Korea, the distinct political roadmaps and the same time, the possible complementarities that exist in the hypothetical common agenda. Fifth - last but not least - the precise information and the accurate cartography, that not permiss distraction. Congratulations!
Thank you for your interest in Korean history.
Research on the Joseon Dynasty is also very interesting.
Joseon used Confucius and Mencius' Confucianism as its policy ideology for 500 years, but each country had its own weak-kneed-for-the-medievalism.
It is also a history where you can see how it is corrupted and collapsed by national ideology.
Joseon completely suppressed commercial and industrial capitalists as a status society, and farmers were prevented from doing other things because they thought that farming should be done as a vocation. It is a history where you can see how a strong country collapses if its national ideology comes in wrong.
So Koreans hate Confucius, but I don't know why there is a rumor that Confucius is Korean.
It is so interesting. I don't understand why only 338k people only watched this. Anyway keep up the good job.
0:46 It's not Yin, It's Jin. Like 'jean' you wear.
I don't wear jeans. I wear the flayed skins of my enemies.
wow. august hayek is massive disaster lul
Hahahaha true, he/she is everywhere, i wonder what is his/her job in real life :v
lala lili I know he's everywhere in the comment section 🤣🤣🤣😂😂
dude those Japanese navy got smashed hard
The more I watch your videos and read books about geopolitics the more I realize how nations and cutures delude themselves into thinking that their success is due to national character and strength. We are all slaves to our lands.
I have finally seen the CaspianReport as what they are
This is wrong in many levels
최혁준 Please tell us. We want to know.
It's actually not. Quite a well balanced report on early Korean history
최혁준 - "Says, it's wrong"
- "Doesn't provide clarity"
It's actually pretty funny how the history of Japan is 'we were barbarians, a more advanced society kicked our asses, we learned from it and decided to kick some ass ourselves'.
Happened with China and then with the USA.
Actually it's what I think would happen with humans if we encountered a more advanced alien civilisation. In the short term we'd lose but not completely, in the long run we'd catch up to their technology.
@@aussieboy4090 well the video describe the three kingdum period as dominated by the one kingdom; goguryeo.
This is kind of a misrepresentation of the period as all kingdoms actually had their share of golden ages.
where is BALHAE?? BALHAE is Korean history
Not Korean but Chinese.
xk y korean
is he pronouncing those place names right. i feel he is really off there
Nah he literally butchered all of it except Joseon which was decent
One Gta should take place in Korea. It would definitely be an amazing experience travelling around the map.
Butchered pronunciation aside, Caspian Report is one of the highest quality geopolitics channels on the platform.
History of India ... Please.
It will start from 1857.
India was not a country until conquered by UK. India was a region idea rather than a country before.
Siddhartha D no one care about India it's a shitty country
Dragon Champion I don’t know what makes you think that. But it’s ok. The ignorant will remain ignorant...
Triforce at 7:31 (right side, centre)
Saw that too. I wonder who has the Master Sword??
Admiral Yi "Not a singal ship was lost!!!"
04:55 It is also a problem to explain that Wang Geon of Goryeo cooperated with Japan to achieve unification. A.D10Century China was also in a period of division, Korea was also in a period of division, and the situation of nomadic peoples in the north was rapidly changing. The Japanese monarchy had been weakened for a long time and was politically disturbed. At that time, East Asia was each busy with its own internal affairs. After the division of each country ended, the unified countries such as the Song Dynasty, Goryeo, Khitan, Tangut, Vietnam, and Dari settled, the international order in East Asia is reorganized.
I didn't take this channel as a history channel. I don't normally find that people with high levels of knowledge about geopolitics are adequately trained to do history properly.
"China was the big brother. Japan was the little brother with a chip on his shoulder. And Korea, is the red headed middle child."
@Justin Xie spoken like a chinese
"Korea is a peninsula by the sea filled with mountains, and it's 🎵BEAUTIFUL!🎵"
??????????
If you want to know how your ancestors used to live BEFORE the annexation, you can read books written by westerners who visited there. There are at least a half dozen of them with the most famous one being "Korea and Her Neighbors" by Isabella Bird. She says that Seoul was the dirtiest and smelliest place on Earth, and even in the main streets there were not cultural things like restaurants, tea houses, theaters, or even shops.
Thestickystickman
LOL ... The truth of the matter is as follows:
・William Franklin Sands
"집은 옹기종기 붙어 있고 개천과 골목을 따라 모여 있다. 홍수의 계절을 제외하고 푸른 찌꺼기 투성이의 바닥을 따라 스며 나와 장티푸스, 천연두, 콜레라를 옮긴다. 이런 우물에서 여자들은 즐겁게 빨래를 하고 날마다 음식을 씻는다. 배수로 표면에서 악취가 나는 이 얕은 우물보다 더 나쁜 곳은 없다. 지저분한 하층민의 집에는 토속 반찬인 김치의 시큼한 냄새가 난다"
ーW. F. 샌즈 지음, 신복룡 역주, 조선비망록, 집문당, 1999, p.50
・Ernst J.Oppert
"대체로 조선의 가옥들은 이웃나라들에 비해 매우 초라한 인상을 주며 조선의 건축 양식이 중국이나 일본에 이르기 위해서는 대단한 노력을 기울여야 할 것이다 ”
ーE. J. 오페르트 지음, 신복룡・장우영 역주, 금단의 나라 조선, 집문당, 2000, p.117
・Henry A.Savage-Landor
"The streets of the town could not be more tortuous and irregular. With the exception of the main thoroughfares, most of the streets are hardly wide enough to let four people walk abreast. The drainage is carried away in uncovered channels alongside the house, in the street itself; and, the windows being directly over these drains, the good people of Cho-sen, when inside their homes, cannot breathe without inhaling the fumes exhaled from the fetid matter stagnant underneath."
ーCorea or Cho-sen - The Land of the Morning Calm, IndyPublish, 2007, pp. 85-86
@@lupimali9504 Dude these reports were written in 1999. Our country was destroyed after imperial japanise rule and the korean war. Most buildings and national heritage were stolen, ruined, and bombed into pulp and we had to start all over again. And, there was a economical crisis in 1997 which left a lot of people without jobs and poor parts of the country was left unbuilt.
@@dandylion3783 Actually, I never said korea was great before the Japanese came. I just misunderstood the publication time.
@@lupimali9504 I think sticky was just saying korea's nature was beautiful.
So many Korean pretend to know history of China without knowing ur own history.
Great video and keep up the good content as usually
사람들이 이 영상의 잘못된 정보를 믿지 않기를 바랍니다.
너무 많은 정보가 틀렸습니다
Very wrong information.....
chinese paid troll no🙅🏻, Korea has been a part of china, just like Taiwan and Vietnam.
@@mydearleader have fun trying to get to Taiwan without your passport.😂
@@mydearleader haha such a fun meme, sino-centrist!
u guys will rule the earth in this 10 years! xd
Please pronounce "J"s as hard "G" (as in ginger not garlic) sounds in Korean. They are English "J"s not German or other European "J"s that sound like English "Y"s.
Edit: you've pronounced "Bek-Je" quite well, so I don't know why you'd pronounce "Kim Jung Eun" or "Jin" with the English y sounds.
Otherwise, very good brief summary (and potentially the best I've seen) of Korea's thousands of years long history. But I'd say the significance of Japan is just slightly over played (I guess it was to foreshadow what's to come) and the Manchurian people (Kithans and Jurchins etc.) and the region's importance are quite underplayed in ancient and early medieval periods.
12:12 Chinese in disarray from the Japanese invasion? I am sorry, but how can anyone be that DENSE to come up with a conclusion like that? The Imijin War saw Ming send only 48,000 men during the 1st invasion and 72,000 during the 2nd. With a loss of only 32,000 in total. Meanwhile the Ming had station 200,000 troops at the Northern and Western frontier to protect against the Mongols.
After the Imijin war China would be ravaged by plague, a little ice-age that saw crop failure and later famine and natural disasters that sparked rebellion. Seeing the country slowing falling apart with Li Zicheng capturing Beijing and the Emperor committing suicide. This in turn allowed the Manchu to be invited in to avenge the Ming Emperor. After analyzing all these problems, anyone who come to the conclusion "obviously Ming was weakened by Japanese invasion" has to be a complete idiot!
A lot of other errors too which degrade the quality of the video. The video could have been much better researched and be of actual value but now it serves for the most mixing misinformation with a few historical accurate facts.
No Escape Ming did suffer from lack of rice support because Wanli Emperor sent more than 100,000 tons of them to help Joseon get over the invasion. Also, yes, the Manchus didn't even cross the Great Wall when Ming was around.
@在日問題・背乗りの清算 Now it's the other way around..?
Where Mongols went, prosperity and cultural advancement followed. It was their amazing administration that gave the world Hafez, Taj Muhal, religious equality under law, and......Korea turns out to be another example.
Amazing stuff!! This channel keeps getting better. May I suggest the Levant? Lebanon/Syria/Palestine, also a crucial region between great powers with many ups and downs.
This video is pretty good but the Korean three kingdoms are Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla, not Silla, Baekje and Gaya (3:03). Gaya didnt last long at all and the three kingdom era started after Gaya fell.
The cultures of Japan & Gaya were so similar that people don’t know if they were one country or not.