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The Jade Emperor is known by many names, including Yu, [2] Heavenly Grandfather (天公, Tiāngōng), which originally meant "Heavenly Duke", [citation needed] which is used by commoners; the Jade Lord; the Highest Emperor; Great Emperor of Jade (玉皇上帝 Yu Huang Shangdi, or 玉皇大帝 Yu Huang Dadi).
This list represents all of the 151 United States military personnel who received the Medal of Honor for valor in combat during the Korean War. 106 Medals of Honor were awarded posthumously. [ 1 ] North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, to attempt to reunite the Korean peninsula, which had been formally divided since 1948.
From 1966 to 1969, many cross-border incursions took place in what has been referred to as the Korean DMZ Conflict or Second Korean War. In 1968, a North Korean commando team unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate South Korean president Park Chung Hee in the Blue House Raid. In 1976, the Korean axe murder incident was widely publicized. Since ...
Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War (Korean: 태극기 휘날리며; RR: Taegeukgi Hwinallimyeo) is a 2004 South Korean war film directed by Kang Je-gyu. It stars Jang Dong-gun and Won Bin and tells the story of two brothers who are forcibly drafted into the South Korean army at the outbreak of the Korean War .
Guo Huai (Chinese: 郭槐; pinyin: Guō Huái; Wade–Giles: Kuo 1 Huai 2, 237–296), courtesy name Yuhuang [1] (玉璜) or Yuanshao (媛韶, according to her entombed stele [2]), was a niece of the general Guo Huai (郭淮; note that their Chinese names differ even if their romanized names do not), the second wife of Jia Chong, the mother of Jia Nanfeng, and the mother-in-law of Emperor Hui ...
Obaltan (Korean: 오발탄; also known as Aimless Bullet and Stray Bullet) is a 1961 South Korean tragedy film directed by Yu Hyun-mok. The plot is based on the novella of the same name by Yi Beomseon. It has often been called the best Korean movie ever made. [1] [2]
Many members of the Korean imperial family lived in Japan during colonial rule. The last princess of Korea Deokhye, was taken to Japan at a young age, she later married the Japanese count and politician Sō Takeyuki. During the Second World War, princes of the Korean imperial family served as officers of the Imperial Japanese Army.
The No Gun Ri massacre (Korean: 노근리 양민 학살 사건) was a mass killing of South Korean refugees by U.S. military air and ground fire near the village of Nogeun-ri (노근리) in central South Korea between July 26 and 29, 1950, early in the Korean War. In 2005, a South Korean government inquest certified the names of 163 dead or ...