Goguri, Korean or Chinese?

lol. Glad to be here. But anyway. I heard there were three Chinese colonies in Korea, which were Lolang, Taifang, and I forget the third. Koguryeo conquered Lolang and taifeng but what happened to the third?

Originally posted by coolstorm why do korean people claim goguri?

South and North Korean academics claim the heritage of Koguryo and its continuity from Gochosun on three points:

1. Ethnic continuity - Koguryo is one of the kingdoms that reincorporated the Yemaek people who were scattered across southern Manchuria and the northern half of the penninsula after the fall of Gochosun.

2. Cultural continuity - Similar myths and totems to name a few.

3. Historical continuity - Koguryo has always been categorized as a Korean kingdom in numerous historical sources. Also, Shilla defined their conquests as "Reunification of the Three Hans(��)".

Central efforts of China's recent historical distortion is based on attacking Korea's claim of ethnic continuity. Korea claims Yemaeks as the scattered people of former Gochosun, while China claims Yemaeks are Chinese immigrants.

Originally posted by Gubook Janggoon As for you saying that Goguryeo isn't a Korean state.  I agree.  In the modern sense it isn't.  The idea of being Korean hasn't existed until modern times and at earliest sometime during the late Goryeo dynasty.

There is no knowing when the sense of unity had started, but there was already a sense of unity among those "three" peoples during the Shilla Dynasty, under its "߲������" ideal. The official theory on what makes up the Korean people today is not a combination of these "three" peoples. It is the combination of Yemaeks and Hans(��). It is theorized that Koguryo was predominantly Yemaeks, Baekjae a mixture of the two, and Shilla predominantly Hans.

Shilla, Baekje, and Goguryeo were 3 different nations, of 3 different peoples, of 3 different languages, and of 3 different cultures.  Yet these are all critical to Korean history.  All these different groups have come together to form what you and I are today.

Even according to written records, which are very limited and vague, Koguryo and Baekjae shared similar languages and culture, while Shilla differed. Although Shilla's language was written as "different", there is no knowing of the degree to which Shilla's language differed from the other two. It would have been like the difference between Seoul dialect/Jejudo dialect(incomprehensible to many Koreans yet of the same language), or Seoul dialect/Pusan dialect(subtle difference, though comprehensible), or Korean/Japanese(completely incomprehensible, yet grammatical similarities). However, it wasn't as different as Korean/Chinese, since according to analyses on written texts, the grammatical structures were quite similar(subject-object-verb). It is widely accepted in Korea that all the three languages and culture were similar to a degree, which played a huge role in Shilla's successful reunification efforts. On the contrary, Barhae's constituents were of different ethnicity, language, and culture, which played critical roles in its destabilization and its eventual fall.

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