How do many words in Korean sound almost the same as Chinese (dialect)?

South Korea was a vassal state of China during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. As a vassal state, the South Korean king was appointed and removed by Emperor China, and the supreme command of the South Korean army was also in the hands of China. Korea is the old Korea. After World War II, ancient Korea was divided into two countries: North Korea and South Korea.

Many traditional Korean cultures are very similar to those in China, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival. For example, Koreans eat with chopsticks. Hanbok, for example, is very similar to the costumes of the Ming Dynasty. For example, ancient books in South Korea are written in Chinese characters, and Japan and South Korea are deeply influenced by ancient China.

South Korea, like Japan, belongs to the cultural circle of Chinese characters. Although there are no Chinese characters in Korean, it doesn't mean that Koreans don't know Chinese characters, just because after going to China, these Chinese characters were replaced by corresponding Korean characters.

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The name of Korea comes from the tribal alliance "Three Koreas" (Chen Han, Mahan and Han Ge) in the southern part of the ancient Korean Peninsula. During the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms periods in China, the regime of the Three Koreas was called "Koryo" by the Central Plains. For example, "The Biography of the Three Kingdoms, 50,000 Xianbei Dongyi" records: "At the end of the spirit, the Han State was strong, and the counties could not control it.

This is the earliest record that the Korean Peninsula regime is called "Korea". Since then, many regimes on the Korean peninsula have adopted "North Korea" or "Three Koreas" as their nicknames, although they did not take "North Korea" as their country name.

From 1897 to 10, Emperor Gaozong of Korea established the Korean Empire, which made "Korea" enter the historical stage as the official name of the countries on the Korean Peninsula. 19 19 the provisional government of the Republic of Korea was established in Shanghai, China. Although it changed the regime, it still adopted the name of "Korea". From August 1948 to August 15, the country name of the southern part of the Korean peninsula was designated as "Republic of Korea", which was called Korea for short.

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