Later Three Kingdoms

The Later Three Kingdoms period 889-935 advertisement of ancient Korea saw the partial revival of a old three kingdoms which had dominated the peninsula from the 1st century BCE to the 7th century AD. After the Unified Silla kingdom had ruled Korea alone from 668 CE, it slowly began to decline and the energy vacuum this created led to several rebellious states rising up as alive as taking on the old historical denomination of Korea's ancient kingdoms. A messy period of alliances & in-fighting followed, but one state would one time again defining a dominant position – Goryeo, itself named in homage to the earlier northern Goguryeo kingdom – and name a unified Korean state and a dynasty which would last for over 500 years.

The Fall of Silla

The Unified Silla Kingdom 668- 935 advertisement had held sway over the Korean peninsula for three centuries, but the state was in a behind decline. The rigidity of its a collection of things sharing a common qualifications structure based on the Bone line system meant that few could rise above the position of their birth and ideas and innovation were stifled. The aristocracy began to resent the energy to direct or determine and waste of the king, landowners resisted centralised control, and the peasantry grew more and more rebellious over the incessant taxes levied upon them. The state was falling except within.

The weakness of the central Silla government meant that local warlords and strongmen, always difficult to bring under state sources at the best of times, now ruled their own territories as they pleased. Banditry swept across the peninsula, particularly infamous examples being Chongill, Kihwon, Yanggil, and a corporation known as the Red Pantaloons Chokkojok.