According to an article published by South Korea's NAVER network, South Korea is an ancient civilization with a long history of more than 4,000 years, and it is also a superpower, in its heyday, it reached Siberia in the north, the Yangtze River in the south, Tibet in the west, and Japan in the east, and the land area basically includes half of Asia, and half of China is within its territorial range.
South Korea now has an area of 100,000 square kilometers, which is indeed the country with the most lost territory compared to its own historical area, after all, the United Kingdom has only lost 33.48 million square kilometers, while Mongolia has only lost 31.43 million square kilometers.
In Korean history textbooks, it is generally believed that it was the first country in the Yellow River Basin. The Xia Dynasty was only established 5,000 years ago, when South Korea claimed to have existed for more than 2,000 years and was already the master of Asia. In the early civilization of Korea, their territory occupied the whole of East Asia, and the scope of influence extended to Europe, the American continent and other parts of the world, and there were two fatal wounds in this historical logic, one was that Korea actually included the genesis myth in history, and the other was that the New World was not discovered at that time.
Not only is it said that civilization is long, but it is also believed that in the entire history of Asia, South Korea is the absolute protagonist. During the Sui Dynasty of China, they repelled a million Sui troops, and during the Tang Dynasty, the Korean people not only "heroically repelled the enemy army", but also shot Li Shimin in the eye and forced the Tang Dynasty to cede most of the territory, and they also believed that this move made the historical state of Korea " Goguryeo " occupy most of the territory of East Asia. During China's Song Dynasty, Koreans considered their territory to shrink to Northeast Asia, and it was not until the Ming Dynasty that it shrank to the Korean Peninsula.
Today's Koreans are not humorous about their historical understanding, they are serious! Koreans' "self-confidence" is innate! Many young people in South Korea were once close to the developed countries because of the rapid economic development that ushered in the rapid economic development after the war and won one of the "Four Asian Tigers", and the self-confidence of south Korean people reached its peak compared to the period when China was still in poverty at that time.
Some time ago, a Korean professor gave a speech in South Korea that let us know that the "self-confidence" of Koreans has reached the point of no return! There has always been such a theory and the "sandwich theory" among the ordinary people in South Korea. The so-called sandwich theory is: it is now that most Koreans have adopted the expression of China's pursuit to describe China's rapid development, that is, the situation that Koreans generally agree with is called "sandwich theory" and the proposition that South Korea is clamped like a sandwich in the middle of Japan's pursuit before China. Many young Koreans feel that China's sense of pursuit is very strong, and we in South Korea feel like sandwiches and can't breathe.
The fact that Koreans imagine themselves to be so powerful also confirms their fragile hearts! Historically, after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty destroyed Wei Manchu Korea and conquered the Korean Peninsula, Korea has always been the direct or indirect rule of the Central Plains Dynasty, and has always been the first vassal state of the Central Plains. In modern times, due to the weakness and incompetence of the Qing government, it was difficult to get rid of the control of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the post-war economic development prompted Korea to rush to get rid of its past history and china and imagine the "greatness" of its ancestors. "Great" enough to squeeze China, which has a civilization of 5,000 years, to drift on the Yangtze River to survive! This is pathetic and ridiculous!