Korean word senses marked with topical category "History of Asia"

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Parent categories: Asia, History, Earth, Eurasia, Nature
Subcategories: Ancient Asia, Byzantine Empire, History of China, History of Egypt, History of Greece, History of Japan, History of Korea, History of Turkey

Total 86 word senses

• 강점기 (Noun) Short for 강제점령기 (gangjejeomnyeonggi, “forced occupation period”).
• 건전가요 (Noun) geonjeongayo; a genre of propaganda song during the Fourth Republic and Fifth Republic of Korea.
• 국민당 (Noun) nationalist party
• 국보위 (Proper name) Short for 국가보위비상대책위원회 (Gukgabowibisangdaechaegwiwonhoe, “Special Committee for National Security Measures”), the military junta established by Chun Doo-hwan after the Coup d'état of December Twelfth
• 남로당 (Proper name) Short for 남조선로동당 (namjoseollodongdang, “Workers' Party of South Korea”).
• 노 (Proper name) the Lu, an ancient vassal state of China
• 노나라 (Proper name) the Lu, an ancient vassal state of China
• 녹화사업 (Proper name) forcible conscription of university students to spy on their anti-government peer activists during the Fifth Republic of Korea
• 능지 (Noun) slow slicing; lingchi
• 다이몬 (Noun) daimon
• 당나라 (Proper name) Tang dynasty (Chinese empire between 618 and 907)
• 대일본제국 (Proper name) Empire of Japan
• 데메테르 (Proper name) Demeter
• 디오니소스 (Proper name) Dionysus
• 라 (Proper name) [~신(神)] Ra, the Egyptian sun god
• 로마 제국 (Proper name) Roman Empire
• 마립간 (Noun) a royal title of the ancient kings of Silla, used as the kings' chief title from the fourth or fifth to the sixth centuries and attested in various spellings into the tenth century
• 마오쩌둥 사상 (Noun) Maoism
• 메데이아 (Proper name) Medea
• 문혁 (Proper name) Short for 문화대혁명 (Munhwa Daehyeongmyeong, “Cultural Revolution”).
• 문화대혁명 (Proper name) Cultural Revolution (period of social turmoil in Maoist China)
• 반민특위 (Proper name) Short for 반민족행위특별조사위원회 (Banminjokhaeng'witeukbyeoljosawiwonhoe, “Special Investigation Committee of Anti-National Activities”), a short-lived government committee of the Republic of Korea to investigate pro-Japanese collaborators (chinilpa)
• 백년국치 (Proper name) the Century of Humiliation (period of Chinese history between 1839 and 1949 during which Western powers and Japan intervened with China; 1839 refers to the First Opium War, and 1949 refers to the establishment of the People's Republic of China)
• 백련교 (Proper name) White Lotus (a religious and political movement that originated in China in the late 13th century)
• 보도연맹 (Proper name) Short for 국민보도연맹 (gungminbodoyeonmaeng, “National Bodo League”); an organization before the Korean War aiming for the reeducation of supposed communists. It's members are subject to indiscriminate massacre regardless whether they held communist belief.
• 비무장 지대 (Noun) demilitarized zone
• 비잔티온 (Proper name) Byzantium (ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, later called Constantinople; modern Istanbul)
• 비잔티움 (Proper name) Byzantium (ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, later called Constantinople; modern Istanbul)
• 비잔티움 제국 (Proper name) Byzantine Empire
• 사고 공화국 (Proper name) the Kim Young-sam administration, which was marred with frequent accidents
• 사대주의 (Noun) Koreans' historical reverence of the Chinese empire, in which China was honored as the most civilized country on earth and the source of Korea's political legitimacy
• 사사오입 (Noun) rounding to the closest number (0.4 being rounded down, 0.5 being rounded up); rounding off
• 사튀로스 (Noun) satyr
• 삼청교육대 (Proper name) the Samchung re-education camp; a concentration camp established by military dictator Chun Doo-hwan that detained anti-government activists and alleged gangsters.
• 상민 (Proper name) a member of the commoner class of the Joseon caste system who were not systematically discriminated
• 서북청년회 (Proper name) the North-West Youth Association; an anticommunist organization in South Korea known for perpetrating massacre during the Jeju uprising
• 서하 (Proper name) Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227); the Tangut Empire
• 송나라 (Proper name) various Chinese polities named 송 (宋, Song), notably:; the Song state, a small ancient kingdom in central China that was destroyed in 286 BCE
• 시민군 (Noun) volunteer army, militia
• 시민군 (Proper name) the armed protesters during the Gwangju Uprising
• 신군부 (Proper name) the Hanahoe after seizing power, a private group of military officers in the South Korean military who seized power through the Coup d'état of December Twelfth.
• 아레스 (Proper name) Ares (the god of war, son of Zeus and Hera)
• 아르테미스 (Proper name) Artemis
• 아테나 (Proper name) Athena
• 아편전쟁 (Proper name) Opium War
• 아폴론 (Proper name) Apollo
• 아프로디테 (Proper name) Aphrodite
• 안기부 (Proper name) Short for 국가안전기획부(國家安全企劃部) (gukgaanjeon'gihoekbu, “ANSP, the intelligence and counterintelligence agency during the Fifth Republic of Korea”).
• 여순 사건 (Proper name) Short for 여수·순천 사건 (yeosu·suncheon sageon, “Yeosu–Suncheon rebellion”).; a communist mutiny in the South Korean Constabulary of Police Reserve
• 오디세이아 (Proper name) the Odyssey
• 우라누스 (Proper name) Uranus
• 위안부 (Noun) comfort woman (woman forced to serve the Japanese military during the Pacific War)
• 을사오적 (Proper name) the Five Eulsa Traitors: Yi Wan-yong, Yi Geun-taek, Yi Ji-yong, Pak Chesoon, Gwon Jung-hyeon, who signed the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 that made the Korean Empire a protectorate of Japan
• 의화단 (Proper name) Boxer (a Chinese anti-imperial and xenophobic rebel of the early 1900s)
• 이조 (Noun) two of the temple names, especially 고조(高祖) (Gojo) and 세조(世祖) (Sejo) of the Han dynasty of China
• 일본 제국 (Proper name) Empire of Japan
• 일제 (Noun) being made in Japan
• 일제 강점기 (Proper name) Japanese occupation period of Korea from 1910 to 1945.
• 장고 (Noun) Original Sino-Korean form of 장구 (janggu, Korean traditional percussion instrument)
• 제우스 (Proper name) Zeus
• 중정 (Noun) impartial judge (in Imperial China, a local dignitary charged with ranking potential candidates for public service)
• 창씨개명 (Proper name) A 1939 Japanese government policy applied to then Korean colony which forced Koreans to change their surnames to Japanese-style surnames; abolished in 1945.
• 천민 (Proper name) a member of the lowest caste within the Joseon caste system
• 청나라 (Proper name) Qing dynasty
• 친일파 (Noun) chinilpa; pro-Japan traitor
• 코리아게이트 (Proper name) Koreagate
• 콘스탄티노폴리스 (Proper name) Constantinople (the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, in modern Turkey, named after Constantine, Roman emperor)
• 타나토스 (Proper name) Thanatos (the god of death)
• 타이탄 (Proper name) Titan (moon of Saturn)
• 투탕카멘 (Proper name) Tutankhamun
• 티탄 (Noun) Titan (mythological giant)
• 파라오 (Noun) pharaoh
• 페르세포네 (Proper name) Persephone (Greek goddess)
• 포세이돈 (Proper name) Poseidon
• 하나회 (Proper name) the Hanahoe, a private group of military officers in the South Korean military who seized power through the Coup d'état of December Twelfth.
• 하데스 (Proper name) Hades
• 한강의 기적 (Proper name) Miracle on the Han River; a period of high-speed economic development of South Korea during the Third to Fifth Republic period
• 한나라 (Proper name) Han, a major kingdom in the Central Plain during the Warring States period from 403 BCE to 230 BCE
• 햇볕정책 (Proper name) the Sunshine Policy, South Korean reunification policy towards North Korea by the progressive camp involving peacemaking and investment in the North.
• 헤라 (Proper name) Hera
• 헤르메스 (Proper name) Hermes
• 헤스티아 (Proper name) Hestia
• 헤파이스토스 (Proper name) Hephaestus
• 헥토르 (Proper name) Hector, the Trojan prince and hero in Homer's Iliad
• 386 세대 (Noun) 386 Generation (those born in the 1960s, the politically and economically dominant age cohort in South Korea in the early twenty-first century)
• 3·1 운동 (Proper name) the March 1st Movement; an uprising in Korea opposing Japanese colonial rule

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