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  2. Timeline of Korean history - Wikipedia

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    17 September. North Korea (DPRK) and South Korea (ROK) join the United Nations (UN). 26 December. The end of the Cold War as the Soviet Union collapses and North Korea loses military and economic aid. 1992 11 August. South Korea's first satellite, KITSAT-1, a.k.a. 우리별 (Uri Byol) is successfully launched from Guiana Space Centre. 24 August.

  3. History of Korea - Wikipedia

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    People in southern Korea adopted intensive dry-field and paddy-field agriculture with a multitude of crops in the Early Mumun Period (1500–850 BC). The first societies led by big-men or chiefs emerged in the Middle Mumun (850–550 BC), and the first ostentatious elite burials can be traced to the Late Mumun (c. 550–300 BC).

  4. Imjin War - Wikipedia

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    The Imjin War (Korean: 임진왜란; Hanja: 壬辰倭亂) was a series of two Japanese invasions of Korea: an initial invasion in 1592 also individually called "Imjin War", a brief truce in 1596, and a second invasion in 1597 called the Chŏngyu War (정유재란; 丁酉再亂).

  5. Prehistoric Korea - Wikipedia

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    Prehistoric Korea is the era of human existence in the Korean ... (c 1500–300 BC). People in southern Korea adopted intensive dry-field and paddy-field ...

  6. Mumun pottery period - Wikipedia

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    Ganghwa dolmen, South Korea Large Middle Mumun (c. 8th century BC) storage vessel unearthed from a pit-house in or near Daepyeong, H= c. 60-70 cm.. The Middle (or Classic) Mumun (c. 850-550 BC) is characterized by intensive agriculture, as evidenced by the large and expansive dry-field remains (c. 32,500 square metres) recovered at Daepyeong, a sprawling settlement with several multiple ditch ...

  7. Battle of Myeongnyang - Wikipedia

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    The books which were published by the Imperial Japanese Navy also summarized the battle as a Korean decisive victory. [31] Furthermore, almost every modern Japanese historian also said the battle was a Korean decisive victory. [32] [33] “In the end, Yi’s thirteen-strong fleet defeated ten times that number of Japanese ships.

  8. Jeulmun pottery period - Wikipedia

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    The Jeulmun pottery period (Korean: 즐문 토기 시대) is an archaeological era in Korean prehistory broadly spanning the period of 8000–1500 BC. [1] This period subsumes the Mesolithic and Neolithic cultural stages in Korea, [2] [3] lasting ca. 8000–3500 BC ("Incipient" to "Early" phases) and 3500–1500 BC ("Middle" and "Late" phases), respectively. [4]

  9. List of wars: 1500–1799 - Wikipedia

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    Graph of global conflict deaths from 1500 to 1799 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1500 and 1799. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.