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  2. Hanbok - Wikipedia

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    All these patterns throughout Korean history had meanings of longevity, good luck, wealth and honor. [137] Hwarot also had blue, red, and yellow colored stripes in each sleeve; a woman usually wore a scarlet-colored skirt and yellow or green-colored Jeogori, a traditional Korean jacket. [137] Hwarot was worn over the Jeogori and skirt. [137]

  3. History of Korea - Wikipedia

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    The Paleolithic people are likely not the direct ancestors of the present Korean people, but their direct ancestors are thought to be the Neolithic People of about 2000 BC. [ 7 ] According to the mythic account recounted in the Samguk yusa (1281), the Gojoseon kingdom was founded in northern Korea and southern Manchuria in 2333 BC.

  4. Genetic history of East Asians - Wikipedia

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    Generally, pairwise F ST between Han Chinese, Japanese and Korean (0.0026~ 0.0090) are greater than that within Han Chinese (0.0014). These results suggested Han Chinese, Japanese and Korean are different in terms of genetic make-up, and the differences among the three groups are much larger than that between Northern and Southern Han Chinese ...

  5. Timeline of Korean history - Wikipedia

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    11 August. South Korea's first satellite, KITSAT-1, a.k.a. 우리별 (Uri Byol) is successfully launched from Guiana Space Centre. 24 August. South Korea and the People's Republic of China (PRC) establish diplomatic relations. 1993: Test of Rodong-1, a single-stage, mobile liquid propellant medium-range ballistic missile by the North Korea. 1994

  6. White clothing in Korea - Wikipedia

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    clothing of the people), on a daily basis. Many Korean people, from infancy through old age and across the social spectrum, dressed in white. They only wore color on special occasions or if their job required a certain uniform. [1] Early evidence of the practice dates from around the 2nd century BCE.

  7. History of Korean - Wikipedia

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    It is unclear whether Old Korean was a tonal language. [9] It is assumed that Old Korean was divided into dialects, corresponding to the three kingdoms. Of these, the Sillan language is the best attested due to the political domination of Later Silla by the seventh century. Only some literary records of Unified Silla, changed into Goryeo text ...

  8. Why are so many North Koreans crying in pictures with ... - AOL

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    A professor of Korean Studies at the University of Hamburg says the emotion is part of a cult of personality. Yvonne Schulz Zinda said, "The Kim rulers are exaggerated, almost godlike perceived."

  9. Old Korean - Wikipedia

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    Old Korean is generally defined as the ancient Koreanic language of the Silla state (57 BCE – 936 CE), [3] especially in its Unified period (668–936). [4] [5] Proto-Koreanic, the hypothetical ancestor of the Koreanic languages understood largely through the internal reconstruction of later forms of Korean, [6] is to be distinguished from the actually historically attested language of Old ...