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Main articles: History of North Korea and History of South Korea. Beginning with Syngman Rhee in 1948, a series of autocratic governments took power in South Korea with American support and influence. With the coup of Park Chung Hee in 1961, a new economic policy began.
The traditional culture of Korea is the shared cultural and historical heritage of Korea before the division of Korea in 1945. Since the mid-20th century, Korea has been split between the North Korean and South Korean states, resulting in a number of cultural differences that can be observed even today.
Three Kingdoms of Korea. The Three Kingdoms of Korea or Samguk ( Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla) competed for hegemony over the Korean Peninsula during the ancient period of Korean history. The Three Kingdoms period is traditionally dated from 57 BC to 698 AD.
History of Korea. Prehistoric Korea is the era of human existence in the Korean Peninsula for which written records do not exist. It nonetheless constitutes the greatest segment of the Korean past and is the major object of study in the disciplines of archaeology, geology, and palaeontology .
700 BC: Beginning of the Liaoning bronze dagger culture. [8] 323 BC: Estimated beginning of the Gojoseon-Yan War that eventually ends in Gojoseon's loss of the Liaodong peninsula to Yan. [9] 300 BC: Beginning of the Iron Age. [10] 300 BC: Establishment of Jin in southern Korean peninsula.
The contemporary culture of South Korea developed from the traditional culture of Korea which was prevalent in the early Korean nomadic tribes. By maintaining thousands of years of ancient Korean culture, with influence from ancient Chinese culture, South Korea split on its own path of cultural development away from North Korean culture since the division of Korea in 1945. The ...
Baekje or Paekche [7] ( Korean : 백제; Hanja : 百濟, Korean pronunciation: [pɛk̚.tɕ͈e]) was a Korean kingdom located in southwestern Korea from 18 BC [2] to 660 AD. It was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, together with Goguryeo and Silla.
The ancient indigenous native religion of Korea presented one of the most important aspects in early Korean society and involved the very lives of its people as well of its culture.