History Lives - Gojoseon Edition: Episode 16: Descendants of Gojoseon - The Birth of Buyeo and Goguryeo

Key points in 3 lines

1. Episode 16 of the series explains that after Gojoseon fell to the Han dynasty in 108 BC, its refugees scattered and became the basis for new states such as Buyeo, Samhan and Goguryeo.
2. The series writes that the refugees moved in four directions - north, east, south and west - and that Jumong gathered them at Jolbon and founded Goguryeo in 37 BC.
3. On who led the founding of Goguryeo, the view that Gojoseon refugees were the main force is presented as the mainstream theory, while leadership by the Buyeo group is introduced as an alternative view; the next episode is Episode 17.

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