The Jeongjo the Great destroyer, named after a visionary king of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), was delivered to the Navy in a ceremony held at a HD Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan ...

The Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty form a collection of 40 tombs scattered over 18 locations. Built over five centuries, from 1408 to 1966, the tombs honoured the memory of ancestors, showed ...

By the mid-19th century, the western powers had forced the Qing dynasty of China and Japan to open their doors and then asked the same of Joseon, but Joseon duly rejected such requests. Joseon did not ...