Wow. Personally believing in this trash is one thing,
but putting it up on Google as a Korean Cultural information?

While I do feel it an absolute waste of time to even argue against this trash, I will put up a short post just to clarify the real facts to non-Koreans.
This "Hwan Dan Go Gi" is a complete mythical fabrication with no real historical value whatsoever that was created in the late 1970's.

The title of the text should also be read "Hwan Dan Go Gi" and not "Han Dan Go Gi"
as the latter pronunciation is based on an absurd and baseless claim made by Lim Seung-guk
who first imported the book from Japan.
(His logic is essentially like: the word 'anchor' should be pronounced [aNGCHôr] instead of [aNGkər],
because the word choice is pronounced as [CHois])

No real Korean historians worth their salt treat this collection of myths as a valid historical reference.
Jung claims that "Some Koreans, while acknowledging that a few points might have been fabricated while copying, decry the university historians
as too much contaminated by Japanese colonial view of history",
but this is just a common claim made by the rare few ultra-nationalists
who actually believe this "Hwan Dan Go Gi" as a historical text.

The normal, sane Koreans mockingly call these ultra-nationalists 'Hwan-pah', roughly meaning "Hwan Dan Go Gi" fanatics (or cultists).

Please do not mistake Jung's absurd claims for what really is commonly accepted in Korea.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

Wow. Personally believing in this trash is one thing, but putting it up on Google as a Korean Cultural information?

While I do feel it an absolute waste of time to even argue against this trash, I will put up a short post just to clarify the real facts to non-Koreans. This "Hwan Dan Go Gi" is a complete mythical fabrication with no real historical value whatsoever
that was created in the late 1970's.

The title of the text should also be read "Hwan Dan Go Gi" and not "Han Dan Go Gi" as the latter pronunciation is based on an absurd and baseless claim made by Lim Seung-guk who first imported the book from Japan.
(His logic is essentially like: the word 'anchor' should be pronounced [aNGCHôr] instead of [aNGkər], because the word choice is pronounced as [CHois])

No real Korean historians worth their salt treat this collection of myths as a valid historical reference. Jung claims that "Some Koreans, while acknowledging that a few points might have been fabricated while copying, decry the university historians as
too much contaminated by Japanese colonial view of history" is a common argument used by the rare few ultra-nationalists who actually believe this "Hwan Dan Go Gi" is a historical text.

The normal, sane Koreans mockingly call those ultra-nationalists 'Hwan-pah', roughly meaning Hwan Dan Go Gi fanatics or cultists.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)