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[100 Years Ago Today] October 25, 1926 – A Monday in Seoul: Na Un-gyu
🕙 Evening Edition · 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) Monday, October 25, 1926 · Gyeongseong (Seoul) 10:10 - As the clock smiles, reflect on a century of history As you wind down your day, picture a city with two stories running through it at on…
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[History Lives On – Silla Series] Episode 11: Hwangnyongsa – The Heart of Silla Buddhism
Episode 11: Hwangnyongsa - The Heart of Silla Buddhism Today, a visitor to Hwangnyongsa in Gyeongju sees open grass and rows of foundation stones. Yet on this empty ground once stood a wooden tower roughly 80 meters high, taller than any c…
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[History Lives On – Silla Series] Episode 10: Queen Jindeok and Kim Chunchu, the Transfer of Royal Power
Episode 10: Queen Jindeok and Kim Chunchu - The Transfer of Royal Power Power rarely changes hands in a single dramatic moment. More often, the quietest seven years of a reign decide everything that follows. In the first month of 647, the …
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[History Lives On – Silla Series] Episode 9: Queen Seondeok, Korea
Episode 9: Queen Seondeok, Korea's First Female Sovereign In the very years Constantinople was fighting for its life and Arab armies were remaking the Middle East, a woman on the Korean peninsula was building an observatory and the tallest…
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- 100 Years Ago Today
[100 Years Ago Today] October 22, 1926 – A Friday in Gyeongseong: The New Government-General Building Looms Over Gyeongbokgung as “Arirang” Fills the Theaters
Friday, October 22, 1926 · Gyeongseong · 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) 10:10 - As the clock smiles, reflect on a century of history As you wind down your day, picture a Friday night in Seoul, then called Gyeongseong, exactly one hundred years…
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[History Lives On – Silla Series] Episode 8: The Hwarang, Silla
Episode 8: The Hwarang, Silla's Young Warriors Long before medieval Europe dreamed of knightly chivalry, a small Korean kingdom was already training its sons to be both poets and warriors. Every society asks how to turn its young people in…
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- 100 Years Ago Today
[100 Years Ago Today] October 21, 1926 – Twenty Days After the Colonial Palace Opened, a Full Moon Over Gyeongseong and an Empire Conference in London
Thursday, October 21, 1926 · Evening Edition 10:10 PM KST (1:10 PM UTC) As the clock smiles, reflect on a century of history As you wind down your day, travel back one hundred years to Thursday, October 21, 1926. Gyeongseong, the colonial …
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[History Lives On – Silla Series] Episode 7: King Jinheung, the Alexander of Silla
Episode 7: King Jinheung, the Alexander of Silla A boy crowned at the age of seven redrew the map of the Korean peninsula before he died at forty-two. In 540 CE, Jinheung became the 24th king of Silla. His mother, the Queen Dowager Jiso, h…
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[History Lives On – Silla Series] Episode 6: Beopheung and Ichadon – Buddhism Sanctioned in Blood
Episode 6: Beopheung and Ichadon - Buddhism Sanctioned in Blood In the autumn of 527, a young Silla official stretched out his neck for the executioner, and a kingdom on the edge of the known world changed its faith. Ichadon is one of East…
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- 100 Years Ago Today
[100 Years Ago Today] October 19, 1926 – London Opens the Imperial Conference That Defined “Commonwealth” While Colonial Korea Watches Arirang and a New Seat of Power
As you wind down your day, picture two rooms on the same Tuesday, one hundred years ago. In London, statesmen from Britain and its self-governing Dominions sit down at Lancaster House to decide what "equal" means. In Seoul, then called Kei…
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