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Goguryeo, Silla, Goryeo, Joseon.

1,948 CE

Two states, a war that killed millions, and a border that has held for over seventy years.

1,910 CE – 1,945 CE

Thirty-five years of colonial rule, ending with liberation and division.

1,392 CE – 1,897 CE

Five centuries of Confucian government. King Sejong commissions Hangul, an alphabet designed for ordinary people to learn.

918 CE – 1,392 CE

Gives Korea its English name, and produces the world's first metal movable type.

668 CE – 935 CE

With Tang help, Silla takes most of the peninsula and then pushes the Tang back out.

57 BCE – 668 CE

Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla compete for the peninsula.

2,333 BCE – 108 BCE

The first Korean state, its founding date traditional rather than archaeological.