The History of South Korea

ISBN-13: 9783565081295 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str.

Auke de Haan

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South Korea's roots tangle in ancient fogs where Gojoseon shamans etched myths into dolmens, and the Three Kingdoms-Goguryeo's muraled tombs, Baekje's Buddhist bells, Silla's golden crowns-clashed spears over the peninsula's spine. Goryeo potters fired celadon glazes amid Mongol hoofbeats, their porcelain surviving invasions that scorched the land. Joseon kings bunkered in Seoul's palaces, mandating hangul script from Sejong's quill while yangban lords lorded over rice paddies, the era's ink scrolls humming with Confucian codes that chained society till the 20th century's storms blew in.Colonial claws dug deep: Japan's 1910 grip squeezed factories from farmers, sparking March First marches and guerrilla grit in Manchurian hills, till Hiroshima's flash freed but fractured the map. The '50 war thunder-tanks churning Incheon's tides, Pusan perimeters holding by fingernails-left a DMZ scar and a southern republic under Syngman's iron thumb, generals like Park Chung-hee bulldozing shanties for steel mills in the '60s miracle that swapped rice bowls for Samsung screens.Democracy's dawn broke bloody: Gwangju's '80 uprising met batons, student bonfires fueling '87's roar that booted the boots and birthed presidents from prison cells. Now it's chaebol cash clashing with K-wave exports-BTS beats drowning old grudges, Jeju olives nodding to Jeju ghosts. This history's no hanbok parade-it's a bulgogi burn through the bold and the broken, proving a small shore can surf the world's waves.

South Korea's roots tangle in ancient fogs where Gojoseon shamans etched myths into dolmens, and the Three Kingdoms-Goguryeo's muraled tombs, Baekje's Buddhist bells, Silla's golden crowns-clashed...