I strongly suspect that Baduk is right on why this is so, though.

Most likely the Chinese forced Chosun to write it thus.

There are a lot of events covered in the Chosun annals that you would think they would rather beautify or hide. My goodness, there were a lot of things covered in there that seemed like private family info to say the least.

In addition, there is Sae Jong, and Yi Soon Shin. And lately, there is a reverance for Jeong Jo, who I brought up previously as Young Jo’s grandson, who was contemplating invading Qing and opening up to the West.

However, guess who blocks that route?

Well, the same family that survived into the Koryo kingdom and made it weak via marrying into the king’s family and acting as a Wae Chuk. The Kims did that to Koryo and continued it to the Chosun kingdom. The An Dong Kims in particular for Chosun. Nothing but a parasite.

Interestingly, the Kims, Parks, and Lee’s are to be found ubiquitously, but the Wangs, the poor Wangs !

Lee Bang Won and Lee Seung Kyae really put an effort to almost annihilate that blood line in Korea. I think they allowed one or two to survive the line in the end.

Give or take, I don’t put much credence in Sam Guk Yusa or Sam Guk Sagi.

Written 500 to 1000 years after the event for one.

When Baekjae and Goguryo were about to be sacked, it is written that rivers turned blood red, hens started roosting at night, evil spirits came out in broad day light declaring the impending doom of the kingdom, and animals did weird things that have never been seen before.

All for the impending historic unification by Shilla that won’t go pass the Dae Dong river.

And, involving continental China, and to establish what would be roughly 1500 years of a servant-master relationship with China.

Gosh, I really wonder do why and how come rivers didn’t turn blood red when Goryo went bust and Chosun signed itself under Japan.

By the way, while all Shilla kings were born out of the elements pretty much,

One of the Baekjae kings are supposed to have been descended from a commoner who married into the kingdom.

Make no mistake about it. The Kims wrote history.

And it’s a shame they chose to lie about it.

Now, 2/3 of Korean history is pretty much bull shit.

Just a thought, though: it seems rather odd to have murals like that in a Buddhist temple, doesn’t it?

http://eds-trip-to-korea.blogs.....-30th.html

Considering how rocky and steep the Nakhwa area is, I found myself asking how in the world do 3,000 ladies in devilishly impractical, non-mountain climbing dresses, make the hike here? Well it could of been that 1,500 years ago the area was flatter, with normal erosion playing a role in making it more rocky, etc. Who knows? But actually going to the area today doesn’t make you believe the story anymore then if you hadn’t had gone.

Regarding the Samguk Yusa, I am not particularly impressed with Ilyon’s historical abilities. He doesn’t seem to care about harmonizing the various sources he’s got like Kim Pu Sik does in the Sagi. Ultimately, Ilyon’s goal was not to make a rational, dynastic chronicle like the Sagi, but more of a data dump type, loose collection of stories and legends from decaying and disappearing primary sources. Having said that, Ilyon doesn’t seem to “make up” anything and he was probably jotting down some local oral history on the matter. Finally, if the story was invented by Silla to make the Baekje king look bad, the it certainly would have been in the Samguk Sagi as the chronicler of that history certainly didn’t have any love for Baekje but had ALOT of love for Silla, given his family background.

Another interesting point is that while the court ladies may have went down with the ship, the king and crown prince (who had fled to Gongju after the Battle of Hwangsanbeol broke the last Baekje defensive line and opened the way to the capital) did not. They instead surrendered and were brought to China.

Well, there would be the little problem of bodies floating away when they become bloated with gas as they start to decompose.