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Gukhak

Hangul	국학
Hanja	國學
Revised Romanization	Gukhak
McCune-Reischauer	Kukhak

The Gukhak, or National Confucian Academy, was the sole recorded institution of higher learning in the Silla period of medieval Korean history. Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language Romanization system in South Korea. McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language Romanization systems along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which Silla (57 BC – 935 AD was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. The history of Korea stretches from Lower Paleolithic times to the present It provided training in the Chinese classics. Chinese classic texts or Chinese canonical texts ( refer to the pre- Qin Chinese texts especially the Confucian Four Books and Five Classics The Gukhak was established early in the Unified Silla period, in 682 (the second year of King Sinmun). Unified Silla ( 668 CE - 935 CE or Later Silla is the name often applied to the kingdom of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Sinmun of Silla (r 681 - 692) was the thirty-first king of Silla, a Korean state that originated in the southwestern Korean peninsula and went During the reign of King Gyeongdeok (r. King Gyeongdeok of Silla was the 35th ruler who reigned from 742 to 765 over the kingdom of Silla. 742-765) its name was changed briefly to Daehakgam (대학감, 大學監) but reverted to Gukhak during the following reign of King Hyegong (r. Hyegong of Silla (756-780 r 765-780 was the 36th ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla. 765-780). Like its counterpart in Tang China, the Gukhak was established primarily to train local officials in the Confucian classics and the composition skills requisite for the governance of an enlarged Silla state and diplomatic interaction in the China-centered East Asia of the period. The establishment of such an institution was increasingly critical by the 7th century with the maturation of Silla's bureaucratic system modeled upon that of Tang China.

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