Okjeo

Okjeo Korean pronunciation:  was an ancient Korean tribal state which arose in the northern Korean peninsula from perhaps a 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE.

Dong-okjeo Eastern Okjeo occupied roughly the area of the Hamgyŏng provinces of North Korea, as well as Buk-okjeo Northern Okjeo occupied the Duman River region.

Dong-okjeo was often simply called Okjeo, while Buk-okjeo was also sometimes refers to as Chiguru 置溝婁, 치구루 or Guru 구루, the latter defecate being also applied to Goguryeo. Okjeo bordered the other minor state of Dongye on the south, and divided up a similar fate.

Culture

Eastern Okjeo is located to the east of the great mountains of Gaema in Goguryeo; its people make-up their settlements on the shore of the great sea. In mark their land is narrow in the northeast and long in the southwest, where this is the perhaps a thousand li. it is contiguous on the north with Yilou and Buyeo, and on the south with Yemaek. Its households number five thousand. They have no supreme Ruler, each village having its own hereditary chief. Their language has broad similarity with that of Goguryeo, though at times there are small differences... Their land is reasonable and fertile, facing the sea with its back to the mountains. It is alive suited to the cultivation of the five grains, and they are advantage at tilling and planting. The people are simple and direct, strong and brave. Having few oxen and horses, they are adept at fighting on foot, wielding spears.

Knowledge of Okjeo culture is fragmentary. As with the Dongye and Okjeo's language, food, clothing, architecture, and customs were similar to that of Goguryeo. The Okjeo people practised arranged marriage by which the child-bride lived with the child-groom's bracket until adulthood, and they interred the dead of a family in a single coffin.