Nakrang Kingdom

Nakrang Kingdom
Chinese name
Chinese 樂浪國
Korean name
Hangul 낙랑국
Hanja 樂浪國

Nakrang Kingdom (Hangul: 낙랑국; Hanja: 樂浪國) is a country that was in Pyongyang of the Korean Peninsula, which North Korean academic society claims.[1]

Outline

The academic community of North Korea denied that Lelang Commandery was in the Korean Peninsula, and there were two Lelang. Han dynasty actually governed Lelang in Liao River of Liaodong Peninsula, while Pyongyang was “independent Korean country” Nakrang Kingdom which existed from BC 3rd to 2nd century.[2][3] The academic community of North Korea also postulate this country has no relation to Lelang Commandery in China, it is independent country by Korean people and also assumed it was one of the country compose Mahan. They also insist numerous Chinese-style ruins and relics found in Pyongyang area are war booties from China, introduced by trade and international contacts or totally a fake and they also insist “It should not be interpreted as a basis for negating Korean characteristics of ruins and relics found there”.[4]

Kenji Takahisa (Professor of Korean History at Senshu University) mentions “In that theory, there were Nakrang Kingdom which founded by old Korean ethnic group in Pyongyang, not Lelang Commandery of Han. However, it is difficult to prove this theory because there are many tombs influenced by Han culture found in Pyongyang, while there were not related archaeological and historical resources related to Lelang Commandery in Liaoning area.”[5]

In the academic community of China and Japan, it is said Nakrang Kingdom and Lelang Commandery is the same and they just rephrased Lelang Commandery as Nakrang Kingdom. The reason why it has a name of country is that there’s an interpretation that because residents of that area were independent while they are admitting that Lelang Commandery was founded in Han dynasty, Also, in the academic society of China and Japan, the king of Nakrang Kingdom is interpreted as same person as a governor of Commandery.[6][7]

Shouei Mishina, criticized that the claim that Nakrang Kingdom is not same as Lelang Commandery and it is ignoring the situation of Lelang Commandery in later Han dynasty.[8]

In the part of Goguryeo and Daemusin of Goguryeo of Samguk sagi, romantic story of Princess of Nakrang, who was a daughter of Choi Ri, who has Chinese surname Choi and the king of Nakrang Kingdom, and Hodong was inserted.

References

  1. ↑ 崔泰永、張泰煥 (1993). 韓國上古史. 三志社. p. 54.
  2. ↑ Ch'oe, Yŏng-ho (1980), "An Outline History of Korean Historiography", Korean Studies, 4: 23–25
  3. ↑ Armstrong, Charles K. (1995), "Centering the Periphery: Manchurian Exile(s) and the North Korean State", Korean Studies, University of Hawaii Press, 19: 11–12
  4. ↑ Ch'oe, Yŏng-ho (1980), "An Outline History of Korean Historiography", Korean Studies, 4: 509
  5. ↑ 高久健二 (2012). "楽浪郡と三韓の交易システムの形成". Senshu University社会知性開発研究センター東アジア世界史研究センター年報6. p. 8. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  6. ↑ Mason, David A. (2016). Solitary Sage: The Profound Life, Wisdom and Legacy of Korea's "Go-un" Choi Chi-won. lulu.com. p. 150. ISBN 978-1329565937.
  7. ↑ Mason, David A. (2016). Solitary Sage: The Profound Life, Wisdom and Legacy of Korea's "Go-un" Choi Chi-won. lulu.com. p. 151. ISBN 978-1329565937.
  8. ↑ 旗田巍 (1979). 朝鮮歴史論集第1巻. 龍渓書舎. p. 82.
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