Korean History Proficiency Test - Basic case studies
Korean History Proficiency Test - Basic · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Korean History Proficiency Test (Basic), often searched as 한국사능력검정시험 기초, is a multiple-choice Korean history examination offered at an introductory level by the National Institute of Korean History (국사편찬위원회). It certifies that a candidate commands the broad narrative of Korean history at a basic standard: the sequence of periods, the defining institutions and events of each, and the major figures and cultural treasures that anchor that narrative. The Korean History Proficiency Test - Basic case studies are 5 cases and about 2,294 words.
1Labeling a Dolmen Site Without Inventing a Kingdom
A county museum in Chungcheong has excavated Sangcheon-ri, a site on a low terrace. Field records list 27 pit dwellings, 14 dolmens, 3 Liaoning-style bronze daggers, 2 stone cists, and carbon samples dated 1450–1250 BCE.
472 words, about 2 min2Correcting a Silla Unification Plaque
A coastal city is revising a 120-word English plaque for a 676–935 history gallery. The draft says: 'In 668 Silla defeated Baekje and Goguryeo with Tang help and unified the entire Korean peninsula.
457 words, about 2 min3Goryeo Gallery Labels and the Limits of 'First'
A Goryeo gallery has 14 labels. Label A says: 'Goryeo (918–1392) was a Buddhist monarchy whose civilian bureaucracy governed without interruption.' Label B says: 'The 13th-century Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks are the world's first printed book.' Label C says: 'Jikji, printed in 1377, is the oldest extant book made with movable metal type.' A donor will fund the wall text if no claim is challenged by a reviewer.
447 words, about 2 min4A 16th-Century Yangban Household Exhibit
A regional museum in Andong is planning a 12-object exhibit called 'A Day in a 16th-Century Yangban Household.' The family in the scenario is a local yangban lineage in the 1550s with 12 slaves, a seodang, and ancestral rites. Proposed objects are: (1) a white porcelain jar; (2) a 1446 printed copy of Hunminjeongeum; (3) a slave sale contract; (4) a 1930s photograph of a seowon; (5) a printed Confucian primer; (6) a modern Korean newspaper; (7) a wooden movable-type block for a Buddhist text; (8) a cotton jacket.
485 words, about 2 min5Reading a Colonial Archive Box Without Taking Propaganda at Face Value
A provincial archive receives a box labeled '1935 Village Spirit.' It contains: a colonial government poster urging villagers to increase rice production 'voluntarily'; a 1932 prospectus for a Korean-owned textile company; a 1930 police report listing 18 arrested labor organizers; a 1940 notice requiring Korean families to adopt Japanese-style names; and a 1980 oral history by a woman who recalls singing Japanese songs at school. A student wants to display the poster alone with the label 'Koreans welcomed colonial rule.' The archive director asks for a source-criticism note and an exhibit label that uses at least three items.
433 words, about 2 min