The ''Goryeosa'' (), or ''History of Goryeo'', is the main surviving historical record of Korea's
Goryeo
Goryeo (; ) was a Korean kingdom founded in 918, during a time of national division called the Later Three Kingdoms period, that unified and ruled the Korean Peninsula until 1392. Goryeo achieved what has been called a "true national unificat ...
dynasty. It was composed nearly a century after the fall of Goryeo, during the reign of King
Sejong
Sejong of Joseon (15 May 1397 – 8 April 1450), personal name Yi Do ( Korean: 이도; Hanja: 李祹), widely known as Sejong the Great ( Korean: 세종대왕; Hanja: 世宗大王), was the fourth ruler of the Joseon dynasty of Korea. I ...
, undergoing repeated revisions between 1392 and 1451. He ordered a committee of scholars led by
Kim Jongseo and
Jeong Inji to compile it, based on primary and secondary sources that are no longer extant.
The ''Goryeo-sa'', written using
Hanja script, consists of 139 volumes, 46 of which consist of chronicles, 39 of geography, 2 of Chronological tables, 50 of Biographies, and 2 of lists. The document has been digitized by the
National Institute of Korean History and available online with
Modern Korean translation in
Hangul
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The l ...
and original text in
Hanja script.
See also
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Dongguk Tonggam
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Samguk Sagi
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Annals of the Joseon Dynasty
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History of Korea
The Lower Paleolithic era in the Korean Peninsula and Manchuria began roughly half a million years ago.
Christopher J. Norton, "The Current State of Korean Paleoanthropology", (2000), ''Journal of Human Evolution'', 38: 803–825.
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References
External links
The official website showing the original text as well as the translation in Korean Hangul(
National Institute of Korean History)
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History books about Korea
Goryeo
Joseon dynasty works
Chinese-language literature of Korea