This is a popular edition that has selected and edited the main contents of the complete translation of 『Hwandan Gogi』 for easy reading.
『Hwandan Gogi』 is a book published in 1911 by independence activist Uncho Gye Yeon-su, which compiled 『Samseonggi』, 『Dangun Segi』, 『Bukbuyeogi』, and 『Taebaek Ilsa』 into one volume. It claims that there was a history of Hwan-guk and Baedal before Dangun Joseon.
Additionally, the concept of 'Samsin Culture' comprehensively explains the ancient culture of Northeast Asia, including religion, politics, and cosmology.
The translator added materials obtained from domestic and foreign literature and from his visits to Japan, China, the Middle East, Egypt, Europe, North and South America, and other countries.

A 'typhoon of historical war' is currently sweeping through Northeast Asia.
China has long since promoted the Northeast Project, revealing its ambition to incorporate the ancient history of the Korean people into its own history and thereby make China the oldest and most central country in Northeast Asia.
The goal is to become a world leader in the 21st century.
Not to be outdone, Japan is also trying to seize the initiative in Northeast Asia by asserting sovereignty over Dokdo and the Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu Islands in Chinese) near China.
Based on the historical distortions they have perpetrated over the past several centuries, China and Japan are attempting to trample on the Korean people, the descendants of Hwan-guk, the origin of human civilization.

On September 25, 2012, an incident occurred in which patrol boats and dozens of fishing boats from China, Taiwan, and Japan exchanged water cannon fire in the waters off the Senkaku Islands, 120 km northeast of Taiwan. On that day, China became the first of the three Northeast Asian countries to deploy an aircraft carrier.
Zhu Jianrong, a Chinese expert on East Asian affairs, diagnosed the dangerous confrontation in Northeast Asia as "a war situation."
International affairs experts predict that the current conflict between South Korea, China, and Japan in Northeast Asia will intensify in the future.
And the cause of the intensifying conflict in Northeast Asia is analyzed as the deep-rooted 'resentment and grudge' stemming from Japan's oppressive colonial rule decades ago.
As Brad Glosserman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) puts it, “a politics of resentment and anger” is rampant in Northeast Asia, where Japan refuses to acknowledge its past.

The history of Northeast Asia is a history of ingratitude, with the roles of the host and guest reversed.

The founder of China is Emperor Xuanyuan, a person from 4,700 years ago. Xuanyuan was originally a subject of Emperor Chiyou, the 14th king of Baedal.
Therefore, the record that 'the emperor's official title was Yunsa' is recorded in Sima Qian's 'Records of the Grand Historian' and in 'Spring and Autumn Annals of Zuo', which was an interpretation of 'Spring and Autumn Annals of Confucius' by Zuo Qiuming, a scholar of the state of Lu.
The Unsa was originally an official position that assisted Emperor Chiyou along with the Pungbaek and Usa.
Emperor Chiyou's teacher, Master Zifu, taught the essence of Eastern culture to Emperor Xuanyuan of Yunsha and also passed on the "Three Emperors' Internal Texts."
However, Heonwon ungratefully rebelled against Emperor Chiyou, and finally surrendered after ten years of war.
China has actually turned this history upside down.
In other words, Chiyou was a person who started a rebellion without listening to the orders of Heonwon, and Heonwon recorded Chiyou as the emperor who had the feudal lords capture and kill him.
He turned the subject Heonwon, who had been under the care of Emperor Chiyou, into an emperor who reigned over Chiyou.


Japan's early history was established when the Korean people crossed over to the Japanese archipelago at the end of Gojoseon.
Afterwards, during the Three Kingdoms period, people of Baekje origin from the Korean Peninsula advanced into Japan, opened the Asuka civilization, and led the Japanese government.
Despite this fact, when Baekje fell (660), the Japanese changed the name of their country from 'Wa' to 'Japan' (670) in order to cut ties with their master country, Baekje.
And in order to present the royal lineage of their country as having originated from Japanese soil and unrelated to the Korean Peninsula, they fabricated the royal lineage by calling it the “Manse Ilgye (萬世一系).”
During its 35-year rule over Joseon, Japan committed the four atrocities of "taking away land, taking away language, taking away names, and taking away lives," as Kyoto University Professor Emeritus Masaaki Ueda said.
Moreover, immediately after the annexation of Korea, Japan, under the special order of the Emperor, began the task of eradicating the roots of Korean history, fabricating that Korean history began 2,200 years ago as a colony of the Han Dynasty.
Also, it was completely fabricated that 'Empress Jingu established a colony called Imna Japanfu in the Gaya region of the Korean Peninsula around the 4th century, and ruled the southern part of the Korean Peninsula for the next 200 years.'
The Korean people, who had taught us their culture and established the national system, were absurdly reduced to subjects of their own colony.
Where can you find a greater counter-argument than this?


Due to this distortion of history by China and Japan, the history of the origins of the Korean people, who established the Hwan Kingdom 9,000 years ago and laid the foundation for modern human civilization, and established the Baedal Kingdom 6,000 years ago and developed Northeast Asian civilization, has been completely erased.
Return and delivery are the roots of Korea, China, and Japan.
The distortion and obliteration of ancient Korean history by China and Japan is ultimately a foolish act that denies and gnaws away at one's own roots.
The historical manipulation committed by China and Japan is truly an unforgivable act of ingratitude.

China and Japan invaded Korean history, and we ourselves destroyed our own history by falling into the trap of Confucianism and colonialism. As a result, the Korean people today have completely lost their ancient history and culture.
The South Korean government and academia interpret Korean history through a colonialist perspective, and the people are brainwashed into accepting this fabricated colonial history as if it were real history.
In addition, they are steeped in foreign religions such as Confucianism, Buddhism, and Christianity, and deny or reject the Three Sacred Ancestors of the Korean people, Hwanin Cheonje of Hwan-guk, Hwanung Cheonwang of Baedal, and Dangun Wanggeom of Gojoseon, as idols.
How can the soulless Korean people, who have lost their history, win today's increasingly fierce historical war in Northeast Asia?


If we lose our national identity without knowing our own history, the 'Korean people' will disappear and only 'people living on the Korean Peninsula' will remain.
Ultimately, we may face the crisis of national disintegration amidst the fierce turmoil of a fierce historical war.

How can we truly illuminate the history of the Korean people, who have lost their roots and are now teetering on the brink of a Northeast Asian historical war, trapped by a distorted and corrupted history? What path can we take to rectify the fate of the Korean people, who stand on the precipice of a Northeast Asian historical war? As a result of our own history being stolen by foreign powers and then burned by our own hands, the Hwandan Gogi remains our sole remaining authentic historical text.
『Hwandan Gogi』 contains the truth of ancient history that allows us to comprehensively understand the reality of the Northeast Asian historical war.
Therefore, we can win the Northeast Asian history war by reclaiming the original history of the Korean people through 『Hwandan Gogi』 and correcting the distorted history of Northeast Asia.

---「On the Publication of the Popular Edition of 『Hwandan Gogi』」