scholarly journals Research on Qizi Mirror Excavated from the Tomb of King Munyong

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaiwen Zuo ◽  
Xuejuan Cheng
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Japanese Scholar ◽  
Bronze Mirrors

The tomb of King Munyong is a major archaeological discovery in South Korea in the 20th century, in which two mirrors with the seven breasted beasts mirror were unearthed. Japanese scholar Takayasu Higuchi thinks that these two bronze mirrors are all Qizi mirrors, while Chinese archaeologist Yang Hong thinks that only one can be called Qizi mirror. According to archaeological findings and literature, Yang Hong's view should be more reasonable. In addition, combined with the archaeological findings in China, it can be found that the Qizi mirror, as an accessory of tomb, may be related to the gender of the tomb owner.

Diagnosing and Debunking Korean Pseudohistory

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-80
Author(s):  
Andrew Logie
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
East Asia ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The Core ◽  
Early State

In current day South Korea pseudohistory pertaining to early Korea and northern East Asia has reached epidemic proportions. Its advocates argue the early state of Chosŏn to have been an expansive empire centered on mainland geographical Manchuria. Through rationalizing interpretations of the traditional Hwan’ung- Tan’gun myth, they project back the supposed antiquity and pristine nature of this charter empire to the archaeological Hongshan Culture of the Neolithic straddling Inner Mongolia and Liaoning provinces of China. Despite these blatant spatial and temporal exaggerations, all but specialists of early Korea typically remain hesitant to explicitly label this conceptualization as “pseudohistory.” This is because advocates of ancient empire cast themselves as rationalist scholars and claim to have evidential arguments drawn from multiple textual sources and archaeology. They further wield an emotive polemic defaming the domestic academic establishment as being composed of national traitors bent only on maintaining a “colonial view of history.” The canon of counterevidence relied on by empire advocates is the accumulated product of 20th century revisionist and pseudo historiography, but to willing believers and non-experts, it can easily appear convincing and overwhelming. Combined with a postcolonial nationalist framing and situated against the ongoing historiography dispute with China, their conceptualization of a grand antiquity has gained bipartisan political influence with concrete ramifications for professional scholarship. This paper seeks to introduce and debunk the core, seemingly evidential, canon of arguments put forward by purveyors of Korean pseudohistory and to expose their polemics, situating the phenomenon in a broader diagnostic context of global pseudohistory and archaeology.

scholarly journals Reanalysis Product-Based Nonstationary Frequency Analysis for Estimating Extreme Design Rainfall

Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Dong-IK Kim ◽  
Dawei Han ◽  
Taesam Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Frequency Analysis ◽  
Systematic Errors ◽  
Quantile Mapping ◽  
Reanalysis Product ◽  
Rainfall Analysis ◽  
Future Evolution ◽  
Design Rainfall ◽  
Nonstationary Frequency

Nonstationarity is one major issue in hydrological models, especially in design rainfall analysis. Design rainfalls are typically estimated by annual maximum rainfalls (AMRs) of observations below 50 years in many parts of the world, including South Korea. However, due to the lack of data, the time-dependent nature may not be sufficiently identified by this classic approach. Here, this study aims to explore design rainfall with nonstationary condition using century-long reanalysis products that help one to go back to the early 20th century. Despite its useful representation of the past climate, the reanalysis products via observational data assimilation schemes and models have never been tested in representing the nonstationary behavior in extreme rainfall events. We used daily precipitations of two century-long reanalysis datasets as the ERA-20c by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and the 20th century reanalysis (20CR) by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The AMRs from 1900 to 2010 were derived from the grids over South Korea. The systematic errors were downgraded through quantile delta mapping (QDM), as well as conventional stationary quantile mapping (SQM). The evaluation result of the bias-corrected AMRs indicated the significant reduction of the errors. Furthermore, the AMRs present obvious increasing trends from 1900 to 2010. With the bias-corrected values, we carried out nonstationary frequency analysis based on the time-varying location parameters of generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution. Design rainfalls with certain return periods were estimated based on the expected number of exceedance (ENE) interpretation. Although there is a significant range of uncertainty, the design quantiles by the median parameters showed the significant relative difference, from −30.8% to 42.8% for QDM, compared with the quantiles by the multi-decadal observations. Even though the AMRs from the reanalysis products are challenged by various errors such as quantile mapping (QM) and systematic errors, the results from the current study imply that the proposed scheme with employing the reanalysis product might be beneficial to predict the future evolution of extreme precipitation and to estimate the design rainfall accordingly.

Why are missionaries in America? A case study of a Korean mission movement in the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-440
Author(s):  
Rebecca Y. Kim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Korea ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Commission ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Mission Movement ◽  
Christian Nation

Why are missionaries coming to the United States? Why is the country that is a top missionary-sending nation also a top missionary destination? Based on an in-depth case study of one of the largest missionary-sending agencies in South Korea that sends many of its missionaries to the United States, this article explores five reasons for the phenomena of missionaries in America. These factors include the perennial importance of the Great Commission among impassioned majority-world evangelicals as well as their framing of the United States as a “great nation,” the “modern Rome,” and a dominant “Christian nation in crisis” in the late 20th century.

scholarly journals Brazil, China and South Korea

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Antonio Barbosa de Oliveira ◽  
Antonio Carlos Diegues Junior
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Catching Up

This reserach has the purpose to understand the determinants that constitute the process of "cacthing-up" of China and South Korea, which extends from the second half of the 20th century to the 21st century, and then, compare to the reasons why brazilian economy passed trough a process of "catching up" but, in sequence, passed trough a "falling behind", at the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century.

scholarly journals The Failure and Triumph of Economic Complexity: Economic History of Argentina and South Korea in the Second Half of the 20th Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 8-35
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Modern World ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Economic Complexity

Argentina and South Korea are often used to exemplify, respectively, an exceptional episode of economic failure and a rare developmental success story of the second half of the 20th century. As it is argued in the literature, the main reasons for the economic downfall of Argentina were excessive state intervention and regulation. The authors of this article, however, presume that these were rather unsuccessful policies than fundamental problems of the Argentine economy. The level of economic complexity of Argentina was traditionally low, which was a result of an underdeveloped system of mass education and relatively sparse technology adoption. Without serious efforts to diversify its exports and increase its level of economic complexity, this country had little chance to stay among the world’s richest economies. That these efforts did not succeed in bringing about a higher level of economic complexity in Argentina did not, at the same time, imply that they were the main reason of its long-term economic stagnation. In this paper, the authors use the economic complexity theory framework to describe the development story of the Argentine economy in the second half of the 20th century in terms of economic complexity and export diversification. The authors show that this country’s efforts to develop its industry have resulted only in a minor increase in its level of economic complexity, especially if East Asian economic miracle stories—the one of South Korea in particular—are used as a reference point. The main reasons of this result include a slow pace of human capital accumulation in Argentina. This makes an immense contrast with the vast expansion of secondary and tertiary education in South Korea. Challenges of the Korean government’s new industrial policy in the mid-60s and gradual economic diversification stimulated a large-scale education reform, which made South Korea one of the most prominent high-tech economies of the modern world

The conflict between the image and role of physics in South Korea

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong-Won Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Semiconductor Industry ◽  
Mathematical Language ◽  
Nuclear Arsenal ◽  
The Universe

In South Korea, the physicist is popularly perceived as a theoretician who writes the laws of the universe in mathematical language rather than as an experimentalist who discovers or measures. In fact, since 1948 South Korea's governments have supported physics as an eminently practical route to the development of a nuclear arsenal, improvement of nuclear power plants, and the growth of South Korea's semiconductor industry. This article attempts to answer how and why this strange conflict between the image and role of physics emerged and continued in South Korea during the last half of the 20th century.

South Korea’s Claim to Dokdo

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-195
Author(s):  
Hee Eun Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Sea Of Japan ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
East Sea ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Historical Injustice ◽  
Japanese Imperialism ◽  
Terra Nullius

Abstract Dokdo are tiny islets located in the East Sea (Sea of Japan) that have been the source of a longstanding conflict between Korea and Japan. Japan argues that the islets, referred to as Takeshima by Japan, were terra nullius when it incorporated them in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War. However, South Korea claims that previous Korean kingdoms had sovereignty over the islets as evidenced through numerous historical records and maps. South Korea asserts original title over Dokdo noting that Japan’s incorporation of the islets and eventual annexation of the entire Korean peninsula was illegal. This article summarizes the major points South Korea has publicly raised in asserting its claim to Dokdo noting that South Korea’s claim to Dokdo is framed from the perspective of the historical injustice of Japanese imperialism and that Dokdo was the first Korean territory taken by Japan in its expansion into Asia in the early 20th century.

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