Gojoseon, Myth or Real?

It's actually "Joseon," not "Gojoseon." But we call it Gojoseon to tell it apart from Joseon dynasty which was found by Lee in 1392.

Gojoseon's known as a first kingdom of Korea which started on 2333 B.C., but the world doesn't recognize the country as a "real existed" one. Especially Japanese histrorians say Gojoseon's merely a myth. They have their reason of saying so, because it's the country that existed long time ago and there aren't many data left to tell us what the country was like.

But there are some clues to show that Gojoseon's not a myth to us. For example, the dolmen's been found many places around today's Chinese and North Korean territory. (c.f. 70% of world's dolmen's on Korea.) And it's been widely known that the relic's highly related to the territory of Gojoseon.

No one can say for sure an ancient country really existed or not---because they wasn't there. I also believe the birth myth of Gojoseon's somewhat unrealistic and they just lack of historical records on it. (And it's true that Korean government goes patriotic when explaining Gojoseon.) But there ARE some evidences to prove its existences and that is something. And the countries that's denying Gojoseon as part of Korean history has their political & diplomatic reasons on back---like China may not like the idea of Gojoseon, because on this historical basis Korean government might claim the land north to Korea.

What's interesting about this dolmens is that it has this mysterious holes on them. The studies have shown that the holes on the stones signify the constellation. If that account is ture, Gojoseon dolmens are the oldest astronomical chart, which is pretty awesome!