A History of Korea (100 page)

anarchism,
174

ancestor worship,
75
,
76
,
78

Anglo-Saxon civilization,
191

annexation of Korea by Japan,
158

Annexation Treaty (1910),
152

anthem, Korean national,
141

anti-Americanism,
264
,
279

anti-communism,
200
,
203
,
216
,
228
,
230
,
247
,
278

Anti-Communist Law,
236
,
240

April Student Revolution (1960),
227
,
228

Arabian peninsula,
29

Arch of Triumph, Pyongyang,
256

archery,
276

“Arirang”,
177

aristocracy,
8
,
23
,
26
,
33
,
46
,
56
,
76
,
90
,
94
,
96–97
,
102
,
115
,
136

and Catholicism,
107

continuity of,
66

of Kory
,
48
,
66
,
73

of Silla,
23

relationship to Mongols during Kory
,
54

under Mongol rule,
56

Armistice of Korean War,
206
,
210

Armstrong, Louis,
233

army, disbandment of,
154

army, North Korean,
206
,
208
,
216

army, South Korean,
208

army, Soviet,
198
,
215–16

“Arrows”,
242

assimilation,
187
,
215

atrocities,
163
,
208
,
209

“Azaleas”,
177

Bank of Korea,
72
,
79

barbarians,
4
,
34
,
39
,
87
,
92
,
100
,
123
,
125–26
,
186

Barefooted Youth
,
234

Battle of Pyongyang (1592),
82

Beatlemania,
225

Beijing,
55
,
87
,
101
,
107

Berlin Olympics,
172
,
178

Big Brother,
256

biography (genre),
25
,
56
,
76
,
116
,
224

“Biography of Queen Inhy
n”,
94

black marketeering,
253

Boleyn, Anne,
92

“bone rank” (
kolp’um
) system,
26–27

Book of Corrections
(
Chingbirok)
,
84–85

Boys
(literary journal),
190

Britain,
123
,
225

British Broadcasting Corporation,
244

Buddha,
13

Buddhism,
4
,
5
,
13
,
14
,
15
,
19
,
28
,
34
,
37
,
39
,
170
,
177
,
247

as promoter of native Korean culture,
70

centrality of in the Ten Injunctions,
36

centrality of in printing,
45

incorporation of Shamanism and geomancy in,
45

state’s patronage of in Kory
,
37
,
42

Buddhist clergy,
14
,
43
,
73

decline due to Chos
n founding,
69

relationship to political power,
42

role in developing printing technologies,
43

Buddhist temples,
14
,
20
,
25
,
28–29
,
46
,
167

bureaucracy,
69
,
204
,
238
,
253
,
262
,
267

Busan.
See
Pusan

calendar, North Korean,
258

California,
171

capitalism,
104–5
,
127
,
181
,
273

capping,
75

Carter, Jimmy,
254

Catholicism,
105
,
122
,
125
,
170
,
177
,
247

origins of in Korea,
107

persecution of,
122
,
124
,
126

celadon,
42–43

mobile phones,
255
,
271
,
274

censorship,
172–74
,
245
,
246

ceramics,
29
,
42–43

Ch’ae Mansik,
179

Ch’oe Ch’iw
n,
27
,
28

Ch’oe Cheu,
121
,
130

Ch’oe Ikhy
n,
127
,
155

Ch’oe Nams
n,
177
,
183
,
184
,
190
,
191

Ch’oe Rin,
168–69

Ch’oe S
ngh
i,
167