Dangun
c. 1281 CE – 2026 CEattested
Korea
- Korean
Founder of the first Korean kingdom, born of a heavenly prince and a bear who became a woman by eating garlic and mugwort in a cave for a hundred days. The story survives only because a monk wrote it down in the 1280s.
Known for
- the bear who became a woman
- founder of Gojoseon
- known from a single late source
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.