Korean History Proficiency Test - Advanced case studies
Korean History Proficiency Test - Advanced · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Korean History Proficiency Test - Advanced (한국사능력검정시험 심화) is a Korean-language certification that measures how well a candidate can reason about Korean history rather than simply recall dates. Universities, public institutions, and employers in Korea sometimes use it as evidence of historical literacy, and many candidates take it for personal enrichment, for university admission portfolios, or to satisfy institutional requirements. The Korean History Proficiency Test - Advanced case studies are 5 cases and about 4,234 words.
1Labelling Locality 7: Bronze Age Assemblage or Gojoseon Polity?
A county museum in central Korea must finalise wall text for a gallery opening in six weeks. Excavation of 'Locality 7', a river terrace, produced 22 dolmens, three Liaoning-type slotted bronze daggers, plain coarse pottery, one jade tube ornament, and no iron objects.
853 words, about 4 min2Signing Off on a Yeongjo Drama: Three Scenes, One Budget Line
A streaming drama set in the reign of King Yeongjo (r. 1724–1776) has finished shooting but not colour grading.
797 words, about 4 min3Cataloguing the Mun Family Papers: Whose 'Failure' Is It?
An archivist is cataloguing the Mun family papers, a landed household in Hwanghae province, for a digitisation project. The collection runs from 1876 to 1905 and includes a household register from 1882 listing 14 slaves; tax receipts from 1892 showing a surcharge almost equal to the assessed grain tax; a printed 1894 provincial notice announcing the end of hereditary servile status; a land deed from 1896 that still describes two workers as nobi; a cash receipt from 1898 for a household levy; and letters from a son who joined the Independence Club in Seoul in 1897 and complains that the district magistrate ignores the new regulations.
864 words, about 4 min4Reviewing a Textbook Sidebar on 1930s Colonial Industrialisation
A textbook publisher's review panel is debating a sidebar for a high-school volume. The draft reads: 'During the 1930s, colonial rule brought rapid industrial growth, and living standards rose as factory employment expanded.' The panel has a data appendix: the number of factories in Korea rose from roughly 2,000 in 1919 to more than 6,000 by the late 1930s; Korean-owned firms held a small minority of paid-in capital throughout the period; Korean workers' wages in the same industries averaged roughly half to two-thirds of Japanese workers' wages; rice shipments to Japan rose sharply in the 1920s and 1930s while per-capita rice consumption in Korea fell; and the fastest-growing sectors were chemicals and metals in the northern provinces, financed by zaibatsu capital and tied to military demand after 1931 and again after 1937.
831 words, about 4 min5Designating Hill 214: Victory Monument, Mass Grave, and an 18-Month Deadline
A county in North Gyeongsang has asked its heritage committee to vote on a national designation application for 'Hill 214', a ridge above the Nakdong River. Trenches, a concrete bunker, and a mass grave of about 40 people were recorded in a 2009 survey.
889 words, about 4 min