According to Samguk Sagi, in 637, Kim Yu-sin, a Korean general of Silla rallied his troops to defeat rebels by lofting a kite with a straw man which looked like a burning ball flying to the sky.

* Kim Bu-sik, Korean historian of the Goryeo Dynasty who compiled the Samguk Sagi historical text

* 57 BC: Silla is founded in southeastern Korea ( traditional date according to Samguk Sagi, a 12th century historical document ).

* 37 BC: Goguryeo is founded in southern Manchuria ( traditional date according to Samguk Sagi ).

* 18 BC: Baekje is founded in midwestern Korea ( traditional date according to Samguk Sagi ).

* Kim Pusik and his team of historians finish the compilation of the Korean historical text Samguk Sagi.

Baekje's foundation by King Onjo in 18 BC as stated in the Samguk Sagi, followed those of Goguryeo and Silla.

The Samguk Sagi (" History of the Three Kingdoms "), for instance, includes passages on Balhae, but does not include a dynastic history of Balhae.

* Samguk Sagi, a history of the Three Kingdoms period of Korea.

According to the Korean historical document Samguk Sagi ( 삼국사기, 三國史記 ), Goguryeo sent a diplomatic representative to the Han Dynasty in 32 AD, and the Emperor Guangwu of Han granted the official rank of Goguryeo.

* According to the Samguk Sagi ( Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms ), Baekje and Silla sent their princes as hostages to the Yamato court in exchange for military support to continue their already-begun military campaigns ; King Asin of Baekje sent his son Jeonji in 397 and King Silseong of Silla sent his son Misaheun in 402.

According to the history records in Japan ( Nihon Shoki ) and Korea ( Samguk Sagi ), Korean prince was sent to Japan as a hostages.

Information on the Hwarang are mainly found in the histories Samguk Sagi ( 1145 ) and Samguk Yusa ( ca.

According to the Samguk Sagi and Samguk Yusa, two bands of females called Wonhwa ( 원화, 源花, " original flowers ") preceded the Hwarang.

The biographies section of the Samguk Sagi describes young Hwarang who distinguished themselves in the struggles against the Gaya confederacy and later Baekje and Goguryeo.

According to the Hwarang Segi, as cited in the Samguk Sagi and Haedong Gosuengjeon, “... able ministers and loyal subjects are chosen from them, and good generals and brave soldiers are born therefrom .”

Samguk Sagi ( History of the Three Kingdoms ) is a historical record of the Three Kingdoms of Korea: Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla.

The Samguk Sagi is written in Classical Chinese ( the written language of the literati in traditional Korea ) and its compilation was ordered by Goryeo's King Injong ( r. 1122-1146 ) and undertaken by the government official and historian Kim Busik ( 金富軾 ) and a team of junior scholars.

In taking on the task of compiling ( this term is more accurate than " writing " because much of the history is taken from earlier historical records ) the Samguk Sagi Kim Busik was consciously modeling his actions on Chinese Imperial traditions, just as he modeled the history ’ s format after its Chinese forebears.

There were various motivating factors behind the compilation of the Samguk Sagi in the 12th century.

In this context it should be remembered that the compilation of the Samguk Sagi was an officially sponsored undertaking, commissioned by the Goryeo king, with the members of its compilation staff approved by the central bureaucracy.

It was compiled, at least in part, by the Buddhist monk Iryeon ( 1206-1289 ) at the end of the 13th century, a century after the Samguk Sagi.

The Hwarang segi survived to the time that Kim Busik 金富軾 ( 1075 – 1151 ) compiled the Samguk sagi, but is believed to have been lost since the 13th century, because no reference to the Hwarang segi was made after reference to the text found in monk Gakhun's 覺訓 Haedong goseung jeon 海東高僧傳 ( Lives of Eminent Korean Monks, ca.

The principal sources of these narratives are the two great historical records compiled during the Koryo dynasty: Samguk sagi ( 1146 ; " Historical Record of the Three Kingdoms ") and Samguk yusa ( 1285 ; " Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms ").

According to an 11th-century Korean chronicle the Samguk Yusa, the wife of King Suro of the ancient Korean kingdom of Geumgwan Gaya was a princess who travelled by boat from a faraway land called Ayuta to Korea in 48 CE.

The founding legend of Gojoseon, which is recorded in the Samguk Yusa ( 1281 ) and other medieval Korean books, states that the country was established in 2333 BC by Dangun, said to be descended from heaven.

However, the fact that " native heritage " is primarily interpreted by the Samguk Sagi to mean " Three Kingdoms heritage " brings us to the work ’ s ostensibly broader purpose, and that was to promote Three Kingdoms, in contrast to the competing neighbors like Buyeo, Mahan, Gaya, which were absorbed into Three Kingdoms, as the orthodox ruling kingdoms of Korea, and to thus solidify the legitimacy and prestige of the Goryeo state, as Three Kingdoms ’ s rightful successor.

The first extant Korean text to mention Gija ( the Korean pronunciation of Jizi ) was Kim Busik's Samguk Sagi ( completed in 1145 ), which claimed that Gija had been enfeoffed in Haedong ( 海東: Korea ) by the Zhou court, but commented that this account was uncertain because of the brevity of the sources.

The Samguk Yusa ( 1281 ) explained that after being enfeoffed by King Wu of Zhou, Gija replaced Dangun's descendants as the ruler of Joseon, whereas Jewang Ungi ( 1287 ) identified Dangun and Gija as the first rulers of former and latter Joseon respectively.

* Ilyon ( 1972 ; 2006 ) Samguk Yusa: Legends and History of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea, translated by Tae-Hung Ha and Grafton K. Mintz.

The first mentioning of this name however does not appear until the Samguk Yusa and other medieval-era records, Gojoseon is said to have been founded in 2333 BC by Dangun in the legend, who is said to be a Posterity of Heaven.

( Ilyon, Samguk Yusa, translated by T. Ha & G. Mintz ( 1997 ), Yonsei University Press, p. 33 )

According to Samguk Sagi, in 504, the tribute emissary Yesilbu mentions that the gold of Buyeo can no longer be obtainable for tribute as Buyeo has been driven out by the Malgal and the Somna and absorbed into Baekje.

Since the chronology is inconsistent with the Samguk Sagi, the Dongbuyeo mentioned in the stele is widely speculated by historians to have been a revival movement of Dongbuyeo, formed around 285.

The Samguk Yusa records that the current temple was constructed under King Gyeongdeok in 751, begun by Prime Minister Kim Daeseong to pacify the spirits of his parents.

The Samguk Sagi and Samguk Yusa describes the founding of Silla by Hyeokgeose.

One such story ( both in Samguk Sagi and Samguk Yusa ) recounts that her father received a box of peony seeds from the Emperor Taizong of Tang accompanied by a painting of what the flowers looked like.

According to the Samguk Yusa, Geumgwan Kaya was made of 9 villages united by King Suro of Gaya.

The founder of Balhae, Dae Joyeong was possibly a former Goguryeo general of Sumo Mohe stock, although the Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms ( Samguk Yusa ) written by Koreans several hundred years later states that he was of Goguryeo stock.

According to the Samguk Sagi, it was conquered by the Silla general Kim Isabu in 512.

As military official, the Samguk Sagi relates, he reached the rank of daehyeong ( 대형, 大兄 ), seventh among the 14 ranks of Goguryeo officialdom.