was the Ukishima Maru intentionally sunk by Japan?

After all Guanyin's artistic style was often mimicked as a stand in for representations of Mary during the Ming and Qing dynasty in China and Japanese Catholics in hiding during the Tokugawa Shogunate used statues and other art of the native goddess Kannon to disguise their veneration of Mary. Because both Guanyin and Kannon are their country's mother Goddess and art of them commonly have the goddesses holding a baby.

So I'm wondering what is the Korean counterpart of Blessed Mother Mary in the old religions back from the time of the ancient kingdoms and before the 20th century prior to Japan's colonization of the country? Were statues, illustrations pottery, paintings, and other arts of this indigenous goddess to disguise devotions to Holy Mary from authorities during times of persecutions of Korean converts to Christianity?

Does anyone know any rigorous academic-quality books on Seoul's history? Either Korean-language or English-language is ok. I see a lot of pop history books but I want something that an academic would cite and use.

Koreans viewed Japanese as a barbaric race in historic times. Only until 19th century they changed their minds.

What if south korea restored monarchy after liberation?

Even as the biggest non-English speaking star on the international scene at his speak alongside Omar Sharif, Alain Delon was abnormally AAA list level popular in both Japan and China in the 60s and 70s. To the point he's still referenced in both countries today far more than many past native contemporary stars and anybody exploring the Silver Age cinema of both countries will come across him for sure because he was just that popular with a lot of his films being local box office hits despite never acting in any native productions (though he did one film with legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune in the 70s).

But I never come up across anything about Alain Delon and Korea at all. Which is strange considering British-origin stars like Olivia Hussey have had contemporary popularity among Korean cinemaphiles in the 70s and 80s on top of the frequent popularity of Hollywood actors. Moreso considering that some of the most popular Soviet movies like War and Peace did air in North Korea at some point (albeit in limited numbers and often its the literate higher classes who kiss up to the regime who watched them). The simple fact that even North Korean cinemaphiles would have been fans of Ludmilla Savelyva and other Soviet stars (especially when they would have come across Delon's movies at some point because he was also gigantically popular in the USSR).....

So I ask out native Koreans, did Delon ever have a following in the Korean peninsula? I find it strange with how in addition to being the biggest non-English star alongside Sharif, that seeing how nutty the Chinese and Japanese were about him that I can find nothing about Korea's demeanor towards him esp before the 80s!

My wife’s grandfather received the Dongbaeg medal and I want to find more about him. Is there any way to track down his award certificate? Or a write up? If anyone can help it would be appreciated. He passed away a few years ago and I want to be able to tell my children about him. His name was Won Kyu kim born in Busan 10/04/1932.

I always wondered this, considering the Jurchens were descendants of the Mohe people, who had very close ties and were mostly allied (except a few tribes) with both Goguryeo and Balhae.

Korean history is so much richer than Japan

Both korea and ryukyu are annexed by Japan, but the ryukyuans quickly assimilated to Japan's culture, why isn't it for korea?

Are there any Zainichi Koreans here? What's your story?

I bought this dokkaebi figure in South Korea years ago and it’s been sitting in storage since then as I’ve been travelling. Finally settled into a new apartment and found it amongst my things and have hung it right by our front door.

I’m concious of other cultures and “evil spirits” etc and don’t want to have this hanging in our apartment if it might bring back luck so hoping someone can identify the type (if they have different characters?) and let me know if it’s okay..?

From memory I was told it was meant to ward off evil spirits and protect but after some googling I’m not so sure…

Does Korea need to share some responsibility of Japan act of war in ww2? Given that Korea was part of Japan at that time, and many Koreans joined the Japanese army. Or is Korea the a solely the innocent victim of Japanese aggression, just like the Austria victim theory.

Did the allies ever plan to invade and liberate Korea from Japan during ww2? I remember there's a Operation Causeway which US planned to took Taiwan from Japan during ww2. Is there such a plan for Korea too?

Hey all,
I'm an early career history researcher based in South India. I do work around the socio-cultural politics of South India. Recently I started working on a paper which deals with the maritime connections between South India (Tamil Nadu specifically) and Korea through history. Currently since the material is so little around this, I am having trouble putting together something meaningful. I would like some help with references/books/any research material really that I can refer to relating to this. It would be really helpful as I am hoping to extend this into my Ph.D. as well eventually in the next couple of years.

I am currently reading about South India and their evolution of society and culture through the centuries. There is a lot of material here but none that pertains to Indo-Korean connections. Any material that relates to trade/society/cultural history and connections between South India and Korea throughout the centuries will be appreciated. I would also appreciate any leads to university departments/libraries/contact people that I can speak to regarding this.

Thanks in advance!

Hello, I am an indie game developer and I am working on a 2d top-down RPG based in 3 kingdoms in Korea from the ( very controversial ) perspective of the Silla kingdom. I am finding it hard to find sources and information on ancient war tactics and language as most of the sources are either in Korean or are not have the right information. I come on here to find possible sources or historians to talk to regarding the previous question as I wanted to keep it as true to history as possible especially since its from a contrevesial perspective and i am not korean.

My grandfather was born in Manchuria after his family fled Japanese invasion and occupation of Korea.할아버지 did hint at some possible involvement of his father in the resistance but he lost his father at a young age and did not like to discuss it much. I’ve been trying to do some research into our family history, but more than that, I want to find some more information of the Resistance movement in Manchuria and the Korean Provisional Government itself. Does anyone have any book recommendations?