Did Koreans invent the first gunpowder weapons?

[plarq]

Korea was better at metallurgy at that time, so they made better firearm and printing press. However, Mongols borrowed those from China, and brought them to the West and Middle East.

 

[WWTVICTOR]

If you have read Japanese and Chines Wikipedia, you will find out that beside gunpowder, the Koreans claimed a variety of things and inventions from other countries, mostly China and Japan.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9F%93%E5%9B%BD%E8%B5%B7%E6%BA%90%E8%AA%AC
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9F%93%E5%9C%8B%E8%B5%B7%E6%BA%90%E8%AB%96

Here are some of the items claimed by the Koreans:

Dragon Boat Festival
Taiji Symbol
Chinese Characters
Mid Autumn Festival
Go (game)
Rocket
Metal Movable Type Printing Press
Pipa (musical instrument)
Soccer
Soybean Milk
Aeroplanes
Japanese Soysauce
Japanese Festivals
Shinto Shrine
Myth Gods of Japan
Seppuku (stomach cutting)
Kumamoto Castle
Shinto
Emperor of Japan
Japanese Tea Ceremony
Ikebana (flower ceremony)
Man'yōgana (a Japanese language)
Waka (Japanese poem)
Japanese Garden
Bushido (way of the samurai life)
Judo (a kind of martial art)
Karate (a kind of martial art)
Sumo (a kind of martial art)
Ninjutsu
Ninja
Iga-ryū (ninja school of Japan)
Kumdo
Cherry Blossom in all species
Koi (brocaded carp)
Katana
Japanese Cuisine
Sake
Sushi
Sashimi
Nori
Wagyu
Miso Soup
Emperor Taizu of Jin
Sage Kings of China
Genghis Khan
Hongwu Emperor
Nurhachi
Emperor Keitai of Japan
Emperor Ojin of Japan
Emperor Jomei of Japan
Lao Tzu
Jesus
Confucius
Cao Cao
Li Bai
Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha (who founded Buddhism)
Mao Zedong
Premier Wen Jiabao of China
Sun Yat-sen
Yao Ming
Michael Fred Phelps II
Xia Dynasty
Shang Dynasty
Hongshan Culture
Science, Mathematics and Modern Civilization
Mongol People
English People
Whole Japan
80% Land of China
Baekdu Mountain
Origin of Human
Languages of the World
Aztecs Civilization
Incan Civilization
Mesopotamian Civilization
Yellow River Valley Civilization
East Europe, North Africa, Alaska
Great Wall
The Four Great Inventions (Paper Making, Printing Press, Compass and Gunpowder)
Terracotta Army
Giant Panda

How dare they put those misconcepts into their textbooks?

 

[LightSpectra]

That list starts off amusing, but near the end it starts to devolve into insane troll logic. The Koreans invented the English people? What? "80% Land of China"? What does that even mean? They're earth-benders?

 

[WWTVICTOR]

That list starts off amusing, but near the end it starts to devolve into insane troll logic. The Koreans invented the English people? What? "80% Land of China"? What does that even mean? They're earth-benders?

I meant that they declared that over 80 percent of China's land area is under the dominance of the 'glorious' Korea, that's why they could built the Great Wall.

They don't advent the English, they said that the origin of English people is from Korea, perhaps I will describe it more straight-forward, the British Isles are full of Korean immigrants.

I should explain more futher, "Genghis Khan" in the list is not a new electronic product that made in Seoul, but a Mongol leader, who 'was a decendant of the mighty Koreans'. The Koreans didn't invent East Europe, North Africa and Alaska. Their empire expanded throughout the Bering Sea and reach North America, the Muslim's caliphates were their vassals, and the Chinese lived on the edge of the world.

I hope that my explanations can help solving your doubts (the worst writing ever written in English).

 

[Tee Kay]

That list starts off amusing, but near the end it starts to devolve into insane troll logic. The Koreans invented the English people? What? "80% Land of China"? What does that even mean? They're earth-benders?

Well... there are some crazy claims out there...

But this one takes the cake.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Mongol wannabees

 

[LightSpectra]

Who would've thought the largest empire in history existed before the domestication of the horse and the existence of roads?

 

[Tee Kay]

Obviously Koreans must have invented them!

 

[ParkCungHee]

Who would've thought the largest empire in history existed before the domestication of the horse and the existence of roads?

Rob E. Howard.

 

[Lord Baal]

Well... there are some crazy claims out there...

But this one takes the cake.

I never realised that Koreans were really Aryan supermen. Did they lose their empire due to interbreeding with us Jews?

 

[WWTVICTOR]

Well... there are some crazy claims out there...

But this one takes the cake.

Obviously, the invention of gunpowder is just a piece of cake for the Koreans as they took over such a great empire.

 

[BananaLee]

You can't beat a 4,000 year old empire.

The Koreans built the pyramids! EDIT: 1000 years before they were actually built, that's how awesome they are, and how fail I am

 

[Joecoolyo]

10 bucks says the Koreans were the first to make it to America.

 

[sophie]

10 bucks says the Koreans were the first to make it to America.

Naw, they colonized the moon and used the Americas as target practice for their long-range gunpowder missiles.

Also Thomas Jefferson was totally a Korean spy.

 

[ParkCungHee]

That list starts off amusing, but near the end it starts to devolve into insane troll logic. The Koreans invented the English people? What? "80% Land of China"? What does that even mean? They're earth-benders?

Also, I think we can say the Koreans are on the money when they say they invented Kumdo, also known as "Korean Fencing."

 

[Dachs]

Also, I think we can say the Koreans are on the money when they say they invented Kumdo, also known as "Korean Fencing."

Just like how the Hawaiians invented Hawaiian shirts and how the French invented french fries, amirite

 

[ParkCungHee]

Just like how the Hawaiians invented Hawaiian shirts and how the French invented french fries, amirite

Except Kumdo is pretty much defined as "Fencing of Korean Origin." So it's more like...I dunno Dutch Kickboxing. If you want to take the argument that it's essentially the same art as Kendo, then you gotta admit they have a point about the invention of Sumo, which is Ssireum with Shinto Trappings, and a slightly different way of tying your belt.

 

[Dachs]

Except Kumdo is pretty much defined as "Fencing of Korean Origin." So it's more like...I dunno Dutch Kickboxing. If you want to take the argument that it's essentially the same art as Kendo, then you gotta admit they have a point about the invention of Sumo, which is Ssireum with Shinto Trappings, and a slightly different way of tying your belt.

I know almost nothing about kumdo, and wouldn't presume to disagree; I was just saying that if you want to say that it really is Korean, you have to show that it...um...really is Korean (not exhaustively or anything), instead of just saying "it's also called Korean fencing".

 

[ParkCungHee]

I know almost nothing about kumdo, and wouldn't presume to disagree; I was just saying that if you want to say that it really is Korean, you have to show that it...um...really is Korean (not exhaustively or anything), instead of just saying "it's also called Korean fencing".

Oh, yeah, that was kind of a shitpost on my part.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

It should be noted that, even in their 4000 year old empire, they couldn't conquer Scotland !

10 bucks says the Koreans were the first to make it to America.

There you go:

Spoiler :

(from tails' link)
"This map shows how various places around the world were once Korean. One theory explains for example that the English Essex county is actually a deformation of Ui-San itself a deformation of Woo-San, the name of an old Korean kingdom. "