freethink
Prince
KOREA
By land and the sea, the three kingdoms were hemmed in from all sides. Chieftains turned monarchs suddenly faced massive invasions from seemingly unending Chinese dynasties. Conquerors came and went, but the rivers and mountains stayed put with this reality the first Goryeo miraculously survived against the strongest nation know to man. For but a moment, there was peace. In the succeeding generations, the whole of the land was consolidated with the former tribes joining the kings into a benevolent feudal friendship. However, peacetime brought open trade and foreign concepts such as the teachings of Kǒng Fūz and Bulta, but the people seeing some inconsistencies from the foreigners and created the principal Hwajaeng which correctly harmonized wise teachings. The education of the nation was enriched, and became unique in the whole world, in doubt due to the careful instruction given at Palman Daejanggyeong and Gukjagam. You wisely ordered the creation of a new writing system accessible to your people called Hangul, so that Goroyeo became the most literate country in the world. Book publishing became so widespread that great minister Cohe Yun-ui invented movable type printing. As the homeland excelled, unfortunately, the chaos of the world came to threaten the people once again, this time from the waters around us. Admiral Yi Sun Shin with your full blessing crafted the floating iron Geobukseons invincible to all kinds of fire.
Our foes sink to the bottom of the Gojoseon Sea, we have earned the right, to create our destiny. We can now study the mind, the earth, and the stars in tranquility!
EDIT: To keep consistency with opening text, most references to Gojoseon were replaced. The sea mention was kept.
By land and the sea, the three kingdoms were hemmed in from all sides. Chieftains turned monarchs suddenly faced massive invasions from seemingly unending Chinese dynasties. Conquerors came and went, but the rivers and mountains stayed put with this reality the first Goryeo miraculously survived against the strongest nation know to man. For but a moment, there was peace. In the succeeding generations, the whole of the land was consolidated with the former tribes joining the kings into a benevolent feudal friendship. However, peacetime brought open trade and foreign concepts such as the teachings of Kǒng Fūz and Bulta, but the people seeing some inconsistencies from the foreigners and created the principal Hwajaeng which correctly harmonized wise teachings. The education of the nation was enriched, and became unique in the whole world, in doubt due to the careful instruction given at Palman Daejanggyeong and Gukjagam. You wisely ordered the creation of a new writing system accessible to your people called Hangul, so that Goroyeo became the most literate country in the world. Book publishing became so widespread that great minister Cohe Yun-ui invented movable type printing. As the homeland excelled, unfortunately, the chaos of the world came to threaten the people once again, this time from the waters around us. Admiral Yi Sun Shin with your full blessing crafted the floating iron Geobukseons invincible to all kinds of fire.
Our foes sink to the bottom of the Gojoseon Sea, we have earned the right, to create our destiny. We can now study the mind, the earth, and the stars in tranquility!
EDIT: To keep consistency with opening text, most references to Gojoseon were replaced. The sea mention was kept.
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