was the Ukishima Maru intentionally sunk by Japan?

The Geomcha, as featured in the "Goryeo Khitan War", were instrumental to Goryeo's military strategy in the 11th century.

After all Guanyin's artistic style was often mimicked as a stand in for representations of Mary during the Ming and Qing dynasty in China and Japanese Catholics in hiding during the Tokugawa Shogunate used statues and other art of the native goddess Kannon to disguise their veneration of Mary. Because both Guanyin and Kannon are their country's mother Goddess and art of them commonly have the goddesses holding a baby.

So I'm wondering what is the Korean counterpart of Blessed Mother Mary in the old religions back from the time of the ancient kingdoms and before the 20th century prior to Japan's colonization of the country? Were statues, illustrations pottery, paintings, and other arts of this indigenous goddess to disguise devotions to Holy Mary from authorities during times of persecutions of Korean converts to Christianity?

Koreans viewed Japanese as a barbaric race in historic times. Only until 19th century they changed their minds.

What if south korea restored monarchy after liberation?

My wife’s grandfather received the Dongbaeg medal and I want to find more about him. Is there any way to track down his award certificate? Or a write up? If anyone can help it would be appreciated. He passed away a few years ago and I want to be able to tell my children about him. His name was Won Kyu kim born in Busan 10/04/1932.

I always wondered this, considering the Jurchens were descendants of the Mohe people, who had very close ties and were mostly allied (except a few tribes) with both Goguryeo and Balhae.

Both korea and ryukyu are annexed by Japan, but the ryukyuans quickly assimilated to Japan's culture, why isn't it for korea?

Are there any Zainichi Koreans here? What's your story?

Did the allies ever plan to invade and liberate Korea from Japan during ww2? I remember there's a Operation Causeway which US planned to took Taiwan from Japan during ww2. Is there such a plan for Korea too?

Hey all,
I'm an early career history researcher based in South India. I do work around the socio-cultural politics of South India. Recently I started working on a paper which deals with the maritime connections between South India (Tamil Nadu specifically) and Korea through history. Currently since the material is so little around this, I am having trouble putting together something meaningful. I would like some help with references/books/any research material really that I can refer to relating to this. It would be really helpful as I am hoping to extend this into my Ph.D. as well eventually in the next couple of years.

I am currently reading about South India and their evolution of society and culture through the centuries. There is a lot of material here but none that pertains to Indo-Korean connections. Any material that relates to trade/society/cultural history and connections between South India and Korea throughout the centuries will be appreciated. I would also appreciate any leads to university departments/libraries/contact people that I can speak to regarding this.

Thanks in advance!

Hello, I am an indie game developer and I am working on a 2d top-down RPG based in 3 kingdoms in Korea from the ( very controversial ) perspective of the Silla kingdom. I am finding it hard to find sources and information on ancient war tactics and language as most of the sources are either in Korean or are not have the right information. I come on here to find possible sources or historians to talk to regarding the previous question as I wanted to keep it as true to history as possible especially since its from a contrevesial perspective and i am not korean.

My grandfather was born in Manchuria after his family fled Japanese invasion and occupation of Korea.할아버지 did hint at some possible involvement of his father in the resistance but he lost his father at a young age and did not like to discuss it much. I’ve been trying to do some research into our family history, but more than that, I want to find some more information of the Resistance movement in Manchuria and the Korean Provisional Government itself. Does anyone have any book recommendations?

What would the Korea government do to him?

I heard from my Korean friends that S. Korea never agrees on the fact that N.Korea is a country but a bad regime controlled by Kim's family.