21 Facts About Korean mythology

Korean mythology is the group of myths told by historical and modern Koreans.

Shamanic mythology is divided into five regional traditions, with each region having original narratives, as well as distinctive versions of pan-Korean narratives.

Second corpus is the modern oral Korean mythology, which is "incomparably" richer than the literary tradition in both sheer quantity of material and the diversity of themes and content.

Academic study of Korean mythology began with the literary myths, with historians such as Choe Nam-seon and Yi Pyong-do pioneering the first studies of state-foundation myths.

Some Korean mythology myths are mythicized folktales, while many Korean mythology folktales are desacralized myths.

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Foundation myth of Gojoseon, the earliest Korean mythology kingdom, is first recorded in two nearly contemporaneous works: Samguk yusa, a history compiled by the Buddhist monk Iryeon around the late 1270s, and Jewang ungi, a Chinese-language epic poem written in 1287.

Korean mythology's gives birth to a boy named Dan'gun Wanggeom, who founds the kingdom of Gojoseon at the site of Pyongyang.

Foundation myth of the northern kingdom of Goguryeo is recorded in detail in both the Samguk sagi, the oldest surviving work of Korean mythology history, compiled in 1145, and the Dongmyeongwang-pyeon, a Chinese-language epic poem written by the poet Yi Gyu-bo in 1193.

Korean mythology's is captured by a fisherman and brought to Geumwa the frog-king, who has succeeded his adopted father in Eastern Buyeo.

Korean mythology's gives birth to an egg from her left armpit, and a boy hatches from the egg.

Korean mythology is opposed by an established local chieftain named Songyang.

Korean mythology succeeds his father-in-law as king and founds the Seok clan.

Korean mythology opens the chest and discovers a boy, who he names Alji.

The shamanic Korean mythology is thus unusually conservative for oral literature.

Unlike the literary Korean mythology, the shamanic Korean mythology is a living tradition capable of creating new narratives.

Characteristic of Korean mythology is that the corpus is poorest in and near the capital of Seoul—the traditional political, economic, and cultural center of the country—and largest and most diverse in South Hamgyong Province and Jeju Island, the northernmost and southernmost peripheries respectively.

The South Hamgyong Korean mythology includes a large corpus of unique shamanic narratives, of which the most important is the Song of Dorang-seonbi and Cheongjeong-gaksi, centering on a woman who attempts to meet her beloved husband after his death.

The explicit purpose of the Jeju Korean mythology, as expressed in many narratives directly, is to make the gods "giddy with delight" by retelling them the story of their lives and deeds.

Korean mythology's agrees to go to the Western Heaven and departs, usually wearing the robes of a man.

Korean mythology's interrupts the funeral procession, opens the coffin lids, and resurrects her parents with the flowers and cures them with the water.

Korean mythology's suddenly dies at the end of the narrative without becoming a goddess, and the mother that she resurrected dies soon after.