Portal:Korea/Did you know

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Portal:Korea/Did you know/1

• ...that the Korean poetic form of sijo resembles the Japanese poetic form of haiku?
• ...that the 1402 Korean Kangnido map fully depicts the Old World, from Europe and Africa to Japan, long before European explorations?
• ...that actor Philip Ahn was the first child of Korean ancestry to be born in the United States?

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Portal:Korea/Did you know/2

• ...that Bend It Like Beckham was a crowd favorite at the ninth Pyongyang Film Festival in 2004?
• ...that the first known classical fiction in Korean literature called Kumo shinhwa (Kumo's tales) by Kim Shi-sup was written in Chinese characters?
• ...that Korean American cartoonist Lela Lee created the cartoon Kim, the Angry Little Asian Girl after being enraged at racist cartoons she had seen at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation?

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Portal:Korea/Did you know/3

• ...that the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang was built in 1982 to commemorate the "victory" of Korea over Japan in the WWII?
• ...that Shin Sang-ok, a South Korean film director was kidnapped in 1978 under orders from future North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and forced to direct a giant-monster film, Pulgasari?
• ...that the Ch'onma-ho is a little known, indigenously produced North Korean tank; information on which has proven to be elusive even to the U.S. government?

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Portal:Korea/Did you know/4

Announcement of the Sōshi-kaimei policy issued by the Taikyu court, written bilingually in Japanese and Korean, in a special parallel style in which hanja/kanji were printed only once and were "shared" by the hangul and kana texts

• ...that the Japanese Sōshi-kaimei policy forced Koreans previously banned from using Japanese surnames to do so?
• ...that the 43,000 Sakhalin Koreans were abandoned by Japan after World War II and kept stateless by the Soviet Union for 30 years?
• ...that Prussian military bandmaster Franz Eckert is credited with composing the harmony to the national anthems of both Japan and the Empire of Korea?

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Portal:Korea/Did you know/5

• ...that the 1952 attack on the Sui-ho Dam knocked out electrical power to North Korea for two weeks during the Korean War?
• ...that award-winning Japanese novelist Tachihara Masaaki was a Zainichi Korean, whose works were strongly influenced by Zeami's traditional Japanese Noh dramas?
• ...that the Gippeumjo is a "pleasure group" that was established in 1978 during the administration of Kim Il-sung?

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Portal:Korea/Did you know/6

• ...that more than six thousand Japanese people settled in North Korea voluntarily in the 1960s, accompanying ethnic Korean spouses returning under a repatriation campaign supported by the Japanese and North Korean governments?
• ...that Koreans in Vietnam form that country's second-largest group of expatriates after the Taiwanese?
• ...that the taekwondo form Ko-Dang was named after Korean nationalist Cho Man-sik, imprisoned and executed for his opposition to Kim Il-sung's communists?

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Portal:Korea/Did you know/7

• ...that when the Workers Party of North Korea was founded in 1946, Kim Il-sung was given the position of Vice Chairman of the party?
• ...that the Korean dialect spoken by ethnic Koreans in Japan has changed so much that some of its speakers don't think it can be properly referred to as "Korean" anymore?
• ...that more than one million Koreans moved to Arab countries and Iran between 1975 and 1985?

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Portal:Korea/Did you know/8

• ...that more than one million Koreans moved to Arab countries and Iran between 1975 and 1985?
• ...that the fish Coreoleuciscus splendidus had a movie named after it in 1999?
• ...that the non-fiction book Gifts of Deceit described Koreagate, and the United States Congressional investigation of the Unification Church?

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