Can you provide evidence on this?

I think you are just Chinese nationalist trying to spread wrong message to fellow Chinese to bash Korean. Frankly I really don’t care if Dano festival’s origins as long as many people can enjoy the festival. There are many festivals around world are some what sound & looks similar to other culture, just look at Bull fighting in Mexico & Spain. They both claims this bull fight festivals, so what.

Also, if you ever read the Korean history text book then it doesn’t really says it’s Korean, it says our ancient roots, everyone knows Koreans are product of immigranst of various cultures such as mongols, NE Chinese, Central asian, Siberian tribes etc..

So what Koreans claims some of her ancient roots as ancestors, isn’t it good thing that Koreans are trying to claim many ancient culture as their roots? Even Chinese are doing this, so I don’t see why this is becomming such a hives.

At least Korean don’t claims everything is invented by them, all they saying is they are proud people and they certainly don’t claims Chinese lands as theirs is it?

You Chinese people should grow up and see your self in the mirro before accusing or judging others.

Also, Korean themselves came from NE China & Siberia, so I’m not suprise to see such a claims from Korean nationalists.

But in my opinion, it was Chinese who provoked Koreans as China have been claiming ancient Joseon, Goguryeo, & Balhae as theirs which clearly display justifying Korean ancient roots as theirs. So who’s really bad?

China have been claiming Japan came from China, also claimed Vietnam, Mongolia, Tibet, and even America & Russia far east.

Also I think China has pick on easy pray as many Korean ancient documents were lost during Japanese occupation and ruthless Japanese domination of Korea, so Chinese know Koreans don’t much to back up the claims.

Throughout human history, I think the leaders (or the governing bodies)have propagandisticaly used and manipulated subjects such as religion, history, and ideologies. Despite of advanced and sophisticated modern communication means, we still experience the same disconnections. Thus, we live in an inevitable hyper-reality.

I went to school in Korea until my senior year in high-school, and I don’t know if I have fallen as a victim of a propaganda, but I think what is stated in Wikipedia for “Goguryeo” is just how I was taught in history classes.

Hope it states a fair history for our friends in China as well.

Are you from Malaysia? Many ppl in South East Asia are able to master a number of languages.

I don’t think you can find those books on-line. From the comments above, I can see those are not some popular books in Korea.

I think the authors of those books do have the idea that Korea once occupied the heartland of China.

The Kangnido map is an interesting map. Though it is not accurate in the sense of modern geographic, Korean territory is smaller than China’s proportionately.

The authors may not be so much distorting history as to have taken a literal meaning out of context.

Ancient sources of land mass is often inaccurate. For example, if you look at the Kangnido map which is a map drawn about 600 years ago, the Arab peninsular was depicted as being nearly half the size of Africa. The Korean peninsular was also nearly half the size of Asia.

So it is probable to assume that any accounts written in Korea from 600 years ago would claim Korea to occupy half the land mass of the rest of Asia, which would mean a very BIG Korea. And if today’s historian take the literal measurements according to those middle ages account, they will get a completely wrong picture of the size of the Korean Empire.

You can see the kangnido map here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangnido_map

The yellow-covered book, Korean History by Lim Gyu-taek, is available at Korea’s largest bookseller, but the works by Oh Jaesung are untraceable on the internet, which means they are probably out of print. –by Sonagi

He must have his own rational for making united silla so big. I would like to read and give him a chance to change my mind as I had given Ahmadnejad a chance to deny the halocaust.

I am sorry that your comment was captured by the Akismet, and I was not able to recover it earlier.

Your input is really valuable. It clarify many misunderstanding.

Thanks again!

Jacky

*Hwanpa-Korean nationalists who worship a faked Korean history book-’Hwandangogi’

And the pictures are not from Korean history textbook.