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A problem you will run into with Korean history (and too a lesser extend Japan) is that the Koreans themselves aren't really interested in a factual, empirical examination of their own history. It took centuries for western nations to find value in seprating actual, evidence supported, factual accountings of their own histories from myth and apocrypha. And they were able to do so at their own pace. While there are some Korean academics who are trying, Korean society as a whole has no apetite for separating actual history from myth and legend right now. This is almost as true for the South as the North too.
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