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There is the Mausoleum of King Wang Kon in Kaesong City of the DPRK. Wang Kon (877-943) is the founder of Koryo (918-1392), the first unified state in Korean history….
Mt. Myohyang is one of the six celebrated mountains of Korea. It has the meaning that it is a singular and beautiful mountain giving off fragrance. In the scenic Mt….
Read more about history of the Tower of the Juche Idea, famous building from Pyongyang.
One of dishes typical to the Korean cuisine is barbecue. Especially, seasoned beef grilled over a charcoal fire is known to the world as one of the Korean people’s three…
The world’s first ironclad warship is the Turtle Ship of Korea. The Korean ancestors made the Turtle Ship and tested its performance in 1413. In the late 16th century Admiral…
The Korean nation invented metal types during the Koryo Dynasty that existed between 918 and 1392, greatly developing the publishing. It is proved well by the oldest books printed in…
The Kabo Reform is a bourgeois reform which took place in 1894 during the Feudal Joson Dynasty. It is so called because that is the year of Kabo. At that…
The Sambul Rock of Mt. Kumgang is a triangular granite piece with images of Buddha carved on its front, side and back. The rock is 8 metres high and 9…
The Arch of Triumph is located at the foot of Moran Hill in the capital city Pyongyang. It was erected to hand down the immortal exploits of the great leader Kim Il Sung
Koguryo is the first feudal state of Korea which existed between 277 B.C. and A.D. 668. Researcher Hwang Kum Sok at the History Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences…
Kang Kam Chan was a general of the Koryo Dynasty which existed between 918 and 1392. From his childhood he was fond of study, resourceful, honest and simple and had…
Komunmoru Site is the cave relics belonging to the former term of the Palaeolithic Age. It is the earliest of the relics of the Palaeolithic Age which have been so…
The Kabo Peasants’ War was a nationwide peasants’ war in 1894, the Year of the Horse. Jong Un Myong, Researcher of the History Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences,…
At the Mansudae Art Studio, a well-known fine art producer of Korea, there is Kim Il Sung Prize Winner, Kim Jong Il Prize Winner and People’s Artist Ryu Ha Ryul who has been devoting his all to creation of sculptures for 60 years.
Metal workmanship was highly developed in Koguryo which was the first feudal state that existed in the Korean history between 277 BC and AD 668. The “Transfixed Gilt-Bronze Decoration of…
Tangun is the father of the Korean nation who founded Ancient Joson, the first state in the Korean history. The Mausoleum of King Tangun is in Kangdong County of Pyongyang…
The bell of the Yonbok Temple, one of the five famous bells of Korea, was cast in 1346. It is hanging in the Nam Gate, the old castle gate in…
The ideas of the Silhak school are a patriotic and progressive ideological trend which was formed in Korea in the mid-17th century and existed until the mid-19th century. The scholars…
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