Powerful kingdoms have ruled the Korean peninsula for millennia, making luxurious art for the elite.
c. 10,000 B.C.E.–present
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Periods
Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age
Three Kingdoms Period
Unified Silla Period
Goryeo dynasty
Joseon dynasty
c. 1897–1945
Postwar Korea (after 1945)
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