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Annotation | Flags of Maritime Nations
hard cover,cloth.
Flags of the Maritime Nations from the most authentic sources
prepared by order of the Secrerary of the Navy of the United States.
1882. Fifth edition.Illustrated with 32 colored plates depicting over 150 flags from 49 nations(complete) including COREA.(Flag of Corea shows a white flag banner with the blue and red "Ying/Yang" symbol in the center and a series of four multi-line symbols at diagonal corners) Includes national or royal standard flags,merchant and military,pilot flags and more,some of which are quite different from the flags we recongnize today.Bound in publisher's original full blue cloth with the title stamped in gilt.
This book is the first foreign source including an informaton on the flag of COREA . Fourth edition of this title does not include flag of Corea.
(CHOSUN ILBO: Chosun Daily Newspaper dated January 27,2004: one of the
largest and leading newspapers in Korea)
Discovery of Old Flag Discredits 'Taegukgi' Legend (2004.01.26) by Yu Seok-jae (karma@chosun.com) The oldest Taegukgi, the national flag of Korea, was found. This version is listed in ¡®Flags of Maritime Nations,¡¯ published by the Bureau of Navigation at the U.S. Navy Department in July 1882. This version uses the four trigrams from the Book of Changes. Until now, Park Yeong-hyo was known as the first person to use four trigrams from the Book of Changes. The flag was published two or three months before Park moved to Japan. The oldest picture of a ¡°Taegukgi,¡± the national flag of Korea, has been discovered, giving insight into how the flag¡¯s symbols came to be used. The Taegukgi was found in the ¡°Flags of Maritime Nations,¡± issued by the U.S. Navy Department¡¯s Bureau of Navigation in July 1882, and with its red and blue yin-yang symbol and four black trigrams has the same form as the current Korean flag. This Taegukgi would be two or three months older than the one used by Park Yeong-hyo, who is known as the first to make and use a four-trigram flag. Park did so during a diplomatic mission to Japan from August to September of 1882. In the foreword of ¡°Flags of Maritime Nations,¡± it is written that the U.S. Senate voted on July 19, 1882 to make 3,000 copies of the book and distribute among government bodies. If so, than the Korean flag depicted in it would have been in use at least two or three months prior to the printing of the book. This would decisively discredit the popularly held belief that Park Yeong-hyo made the first Taegukgi. On the left is the ¡®national flag of Chosun¡¯ printed in Japanese newspaper ¡®Jijishinpo¡¯ on Oct. 2, 1882. One in the right is the "national flag of Goryeo" mentioned in a diplomatic document of the Ching Dynasty, dated March 1883. In March 1883, the Taegukgi was formally adopted as the Korean national flag. Kim Weon-mo, an honorary professor at Dankook University and an expert on the Korean flag, said that the one found in Flags of Maritime Nations is presumed to be one displayed when the Treaty of Chemulpo between Korea¡¯s Chosun Dynasty and the United States was signed on May 22, 1882. The oldest picture of the Korean flag was a black-and-white drawing found in the October 10, 1882 edition of the Japanese newspaper, Jijishinpo. It is labeled as the Chosun flag. Flags of Maritime Nations lists color pictures of flags from 49 nations in alphabetical order. The Taegukgi is listed in a column to the right of Qing China¡¯s flag in a column titled ¡°Corea.¡±
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Korea Times(one of the leading daily newspapers in English in Korea)
Picture of Oldest Taegukki Discovered
By Han Eun-jung
A drawing featuring the South Korean national flag has been discovered in an American book published in July 1882. If proven to be true, it will be the oldest picture of the national flag to date.
The image of the ``taegukki,¡¯¡¯ or the South Korean national flag, was found in a book titled ``Flags of Maritime Nations¡¯¡¯ published by the U.S. Navy Department Bureau of Navigation. The book was discovered Monday in Art Bank, a used bookstore in Seoul.
The book describes how the U.S. Senate agreed on July 19, 1882, to make and distribute 3,000 copies of the taegukki. If this information is confirmed, it will be earliest known image of the national flag, two months older than the taegukki unveiled by Park Young-hyo on Oct. 2.
The flag shown in the book is similar to the present South Korean flag. The circular ``taeguk¡¯¡¯ emblem, based on the Tao symbol, rests on a white background that symbolizes peace. The blue of the emblem represents ``yin¡¯¡¯ (the negative, female, passive force) and the red symbolizes ``yang¡¯¡¯ (the positive, male, active force). The four sets of bars positioned at each corner denote heaven (kun), earth (kon), water (ee) and fire (kam).
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| Author | Bureau of Navigation,Secretary of the Navy |
| Publisher | Secretary of the Navy,Washington.D.C. |
| Pub.Year(s) | 1882 |
| Language | English |
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