Asia Finest Discussion Forum > Great Wall of Koryo (Korea)

islander

Oct 28 2011, 06:44 PM

Never heard anyone including Korerans mention the Great Wall of Koryo. Thought China was the only one that built Great Walls. The Great Wall of Koryo (Korea) that went from the Yalu river region to the East sea. They say you can still see whats left of parts of the wall in NK. US during the Korean war should have not gone past the wall. Ancient Koreans must have known that past that region north of that wall was harder to protect and defend.

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In 1033, Koryo undertook a massive construction program to build a great defensive wall across its northern frontier to block not only the Khitan, but the Jurchen of eastern Manchuria as well. After eleven years of intensive labor, the massive rampart, modeled after China's northern defense line, linked fourteen walled towns in a line that stretched northward from the mouth of the Yalu River, through the mountains near the headwaters of the Chongchon and Taedong Rivers, to the east coast near Toryonp'o, the modern port of Yonp'o.

If there are any photos of the parts of the Great Wall that are still intact, I cannot find them.

cloudsix

Oct 29 2011, 01:27 AM

This is interesting. I have never heard of this either. But why is it drawn as a straightline on that map? Is the exact path not quite known?

islander

Oct 29 2011, 01:51 PM

QUOTE (cloudsix @ Oct 29 2011, 02:27 AM)

This is interesting. I have never heard of this either. But why is it drawn as a straightline on that map? Is the exact path not quite known?

Really have no idea. Straight line was probably drawn to give the reader an idea of how long it was.

Crossbow

Oct 30 2011, 05:15 PM

Any proof of existence?.

Seems like a fabricated wall to me.

islander

Nov 1 2011, 05:42 PM

Seems there was another series of military fortifications connected by a wall built before the wall I posted about. Found information and some photos of that wall on this Korean site.

http://forum.koreansentry.com/viewtopic.php?t=383

The blue line on the map is the wall I was talking about which is the Great wall of Koryo built by the Koryo (Goryeo) dynasty. The red line is the other one built by the Goguryeo dynasty.

JSokl

Nov 1 2011, 05:46 PM

Of course, quote Korean Sentry forum. :roll eyes::

Cha

Nov 1 2011, 09:38 PM

QUOTE (cloudsix @ Oct 29 2011, 03:27 PM)

This is interesting. I have never heard of this either. But why is it drawn as a straightline on that map? Is the exact path not quite known?

The exact path is not quite known. I think a lot of it is gone.

QUOTE (Crossbow @ Oct 31 2011, 07:15 AM)

Any proof of existence?.

Seems like a fabricated wall to me.

I remember learning about this in Korean school.

JSokl

Nov 3 2011, 02:10 AM

Watch Korean nationalists claim that Koreans built the Chinese Great Wall based on these new facts and revelations.

I found one dude in Youtube who was a Korean nationalists who said: "Manchu=Korean" .... I'm like, are you serious? You people EXIST? I thought you were myth, but I was wrong.

zoopiter

Nov 3 2011, 06:32 AM

QUOTE (JSokl @ Nov 3 2011, 03:10 PM)

Watch Korean nationalists claim that Koreans built the Chinese Great Wall based on these new facts and revelations.

I found one dude in Youtube who was a Korean nationalists who said: "Manchu=Korean" .... I'm like, are you serious? You people EXIST? I thought you were myth, but I was wrong.

manchu are just manchu and nothing else.

Joseon

Nov 13 2011, 11:33 AM

QUOTE (JSokl @ Nov 3 2011, 02:10 AM)

Watch Korean nationalists claim that Koreans built the Chinese Great Wall based on these new facts and revelations.

I found one dude in Youtube who was a Korean nationalists who said: "Manchu=Korean" .... I'm like, are you serious? You people EXIST? I thought you were myth, but I was wrong.

The chinese don't exactly have a whole lot evidence to support the fact that Manchuria was China. While, there are much closer links between Manchurian culture and Korea. since this tandem were geographically in proximity with each other.

If you want to argue, go argue to a wall. I will not respond to any more idiot brain dead Chinese nationalists that think that Manchuria was even closely linked to Goryeo. Or that Goguryeo was not Korean..

Seriously, You Chinese people have a lot more serious things to worry about than to attempting to re-write history .

Yerroperil

Nov 13 2011, 11:48 AM

QUOTE (Joseon @ Nov 13 2011, 11:33 AM)

The chinese don't exactly have a whole lot evidence to support the fact that Manchuria was China. While, there are much closer links between Manchurian culture and Korea. since this tandem were geographically in proximity with each other.

If you want to argue, go argue to a wall. I will not respond to any more idiot brain dead Chinese nationalists that think that Manchuria was even closely linked to Goryeo. Or that Goguryeo was not Korean..

Seriously, You Chinese people have a lot more serious things to worry about than to attempting to re-write history .

Manchuria is an artificial label,Han Chinese established a presence in Liaoning quite early a large amount during the Han,and Liaodong during the Yan of the warring states. lmao are you going to claim the lost lands bullsh1t like Gando,what is up with revisionist history Baekche and Goguryeo Chinese territories about from Liaodong? I don't think Goguryeo is Chinese,Goguryeo had Korean nobility and peoples however it also included Mohe/Malgal and Han Chinese populations,but it is still Korea.