Side by side
China and South Korea compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
- Shared indicators
- 42
- Domains
- 9
- Crossed events
- 4
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
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Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
4 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- 108 BCE
Fall of Gojoseon to Han China
The Han dynasty conquers Gojoseon and establishes commanderies in the north, fragmenting the peninsula into smaller competing states.
War & Rupture · from the South Korea chronicle · Gojoseon and the Three Kingdoms · Korea (history), Gojoseon
- 668 CE
Silla unifies the peninsula
Allied with Tang China, Silla conquers Baekje in 660 and Goguryeo in 668, then expels the Tang, achieving the first unification of Korea under native rule.
War & Rupture · from the South Korea chronicle · Gojoseon and the Three Kingdoms · Three Kingdoms period, Unified Silla dynasty
- 1592-1598 CE
Japanese (Imjin) invasions repelled
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's forces invade Korea; resistance led by Admiral Yi Sun-sin and his turtle ships, with Ming Chinese aid, ultimately drives them out.
War & Rupture · from the South Korea chronicle · The Joseon Dynasty · Joseon dynasty, Korea (history)
- 25 June 1950
The Korean War
North Korea invades the South; a US-led UN force and Chinese intervention turn the war into a grinding stalemate that devastates the peninsula and kills millions.
War & Rupture · from the South Korea chronicle · Division, the Korean War, and Authoritarian Rebuilding · The Korean War and Japan's Recovery, Korea (history)