CONTENTS
 
World History PicturePack Collection E: History of Korea
 
 Everything listed below is included in this single PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.

KO01: Korea through the Shilla Period, 918 A.D. ● A contemporary map of Korea and adjacent nations ● Mist and mountains ● Terraced rice paddies ● Shamans performing Kut ceremony ● Koguryo in the 5th century ● A map of the Three Kingdoms ● A Maitreya Buddha ● A hunting scene in Koguryo ● Historical painting of battle of Ansi-Song, 645 ● The Hwarang warriors ● Pagodas in the Pulguksa temple ● The Sokkuram grotto, Buddhist devotional site ● Maitreya (Miruk) Buddha, Popchusa Temple ● Maitreya Buddha at Kwanch’oksa Temple ● A gold relic container ● Gold sutra tablets and box ● Text of the Avatamsaka (Garland) sutra ● Gold antler crown from the Shilla period ● Ch’omsongdae, Oldest observatory in Orient ● A bronze bell ● The defeat of a Chinese invasion of Korea in 662
 

KO02: Korea 918-1598: Koryo, Yi Dynasties to the Death of Admiral Yi Sun-shin ● Buddhist nuns at the Sonom-sa Temple ● Koryo dynasty porcelain, called ch'ongja ● A celadon (ch'ongja) wine cup ● Celadon vase called imaebyong (plum vase) ● Movable type and a printed page dated 1403 ● Haeinsa tablets ● The Haeinsa Monastery ● Korea in the Choson dynasty ● Yi Song-gye, founder of Yi Dynasty ● Statue of King Sejong, in Toksugung Palace, Seoul ● King Sejong decree, starting han'gul writing ● A rain gauge or pluviometer ● The tomb of King Sejong, in Yoju ● Painting of Japanese naval force besieging Pusan ● Ear Monument or Ear Tomb (Mimizuka), Japan ● Korean Admiral Yi Sun-shin (1545-1598) ● Admiral Yi in battle ● As shown, the turtle ship was ironclad ● A painting of the death of Admiral Yi ● A bronze statue of Admiral Yi Sun-shin erected
 

KO03: Korea 17th through early 20th Centuries ● European ivory merchant with ivory and porters ● TA portrait of Yi Hang-bok (1566-1643) ● A portrait of Yi Ch'ae (1680-1746) ● A painting of a Sodang, by Kim Hong-do ● Rice bowl of white porcelain from Yi dynasty ● Jar with painted bamboo, example of Yi pottery ● A blue and white porcelain vase ● A summer landscape painted in 1816 by Yi In-mun ● Snowscape by Kim Myong-guk, a scholar-painter ● Diamond Mountains, a painting by Chong Son ● A mother-of-pearl lacquer box, from Yi dynasty ● A 19th century ox horn cabinet ● Throne chamber of Ch'angdokkung Palace in Seoul ● Landscape painting on screen behind the throne ● A contemporary court orchestra ● A court dance ● Commander Robert Shufeldt ● Prince Regent or Hungson Taewon'gun, Yi Ha-ung ● Chou Pong-jun leading rebels in Tonghak Rebel ● Emperor Kojong ● Min Yong-han ● Japanese troops detrain in Korea, around 1904 ● Korean rebels who fought against Japan about 1905 ● Emperor Sunjong, the last Yi ruler
 

KO04: The U.S. - Korean War and Beyond ● Thirty-three Korean leaders meet in March, 1919 ● Koreans hanged by the Japanese ● Syngman Rhee (1895-1965) ● Voting in the South Korean elections in 1948 ● Meeting of United Nations Security Council, 1950 ● MacArthur and Truman ● Chinese "volunteers" capture U.S. tanks ● U.S.S. Missouri firing into North Korea ● U.S. aircraft bombs North Korean position ● Hill 717 in Korea, April 11, 1951 ● American and North Korean guards at P'anmunjom ● U.N.-sponsored Freedom House at P'anmunjom, Korea ● President Park Chung-hee (1917-1979) ● High rise buildings in Seoul ● The Hyundai shipyards, Ulsan, Korea ● Red Cross talks ● The U.S.S. Pueblo ● Axe murder victims ● An infiltration tunnel ● A Korean Boeing 747 air liner ● President Chun Doo-hwan ● A street scene in Seoul, ca. 1910 ● Seoul in the 1980s ● The Old South Gate or Namdaemun, Seoul ● The Lotus Pool Pavilion or Hyangwonjong ● Buddhist pagoda on grounds, Kyongbok Palace ● Confucian ceremonies (Sokchongje) ● Celebration of Buddha's birthday at temple, Seoul ● Immaculate Conception or Myongdong Cathedral ● The Choltusan Martyrs Shrine near Seoul ● Spring festival ceremony, Ewha Women's University ● A bow and arrow maker ● The Olympic Stadium and Park in Seoul ● Korean women dancing around the national flag ● Roh Tae Woo, elected president South Korea, 1987