The Eras of Korea

By bluluver711
  • Myth of the Beginning of Korea
    2333 BCE

    Myth of the Beginning of Korea

    Legend has it that the man-god Dan-gun founded (Go)Joseon "Land of the morning calm"
  • Period: 2333 BCE to 300 BCE

    Gojoseon (Old Joseon)

    History or a legend?
  • Period: 300 BCE to 57 BCE

    Proto-Three Kingdoms

    Many tribes fighting for power in the Korean peninsula to Eastern China.
  • Period: 57 BCE to Jan 1, 668

    Three Kingdoms Period

    Goguryeo (north) 36 BCE Jumong
    Baekji (South) 57 BCE Bak Hyeokgeose
    Silla (South) 18 BCE Onjo
  • Period: Jan 1, 668 to Jan 1, 935

    Silla Kingdom

    Still largely a tribal kingdom with a hierarchical society (Hwabaek-former tribal leader made into nobles who decided the throne), nobles and scholars learned Confucius teachings, mostly serfs. Warlords began to break off and from their own states
  • Period: Jan 1, 918 to Jan 1, 1392

    Goryeo

    Wang gon deafening Silla kingdom
    1231 Mongols conquered most but couldn't get all
    The rulers became puppet rulers with the Mongols in control
    Neo-Confucionism came in the 13th cen
  • Period: Jan 1, 1392 to

    Joseon Dynasty

    General Yi Seong-gye fought the Goryeo and defeated them.
    They moved the capital to Hanseong ( now Seoul)
    Under Yi rulers they made Confucianism the official religion
    Yang-ban=scholars(only sons of nobles/Yangban could take the civil service test that is taken to become a Yang-ban)
  • Korean alphabet invented by King Sejong
    Dec 18, 1444

    Korean alphabet invented by King Sejong

    King Sejong (r.1418-1450), the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty invented what was origionally called, Hunmin jeongeum, or "The correct sounds for the instruction of the people." He made one so that the common people could be able to write and read.
  • Period: to

    Colonial period of Japanese Rule

    Tried to assimilate the Koreans and enforced their rule on them.
  • March 1st (Samil Independence) movement

    March 1st (Samil Independence) movement

    The movement for Korean Nation agaisnt Japanese rule originally started with 33 Korean cultural and religious leaders who organized a big demonstation and drew up the Korean "Proclamation of Independence" and spread throughout the country. The Japanese stopped the movement aftre 12 monthes of protests, but the Samil movement srengthen the unity of Korean people, made what was happening known in the world, and started the Korean Proviional Government in SHanghai. It is now a national holiday.

  • Division of Korea

    Korea was divided into two nations by the 38th parallel one communist, one Democratic

  • Japanese surrender of the war and Korea

    WWII-Japanese surrendered to the allies and finally leaves Korea.

  • Invasion of the North

    North Korea invaded with assistance of China however the Allied forced helped push them back again
  • Period: to

    Modern

  • Japanese Invasion

    Forced to withdraw by General Yi Sun-sin