Points of Divergence : Korea

Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of both South Korea and North Korea.

• A more diverse Korea and Japan
• Sheep pastoralism in Japan and Korea
• Longest dynasty possible?
• Discussion of a different end to the Korean Three Kingdoms Era due to a longer Sui
• Discussion about the possibility of China controlling Korea and Japan
• Make Ancient China More Expansionist
• AHC & WI: Chinese/Korean Conquest of Japan (Not Mongol)
• Indo-European Manchuria+Korea
• Possible Turkic Migrations Further Into East and/or Southeast Asia
• Discussion about holding a “world empire” together
• AHC: Korea annexed by China and not by Japan
• Discussion about a different Eurasia with a Roman PoD
• Strong Korea/Lame Japan and China
• AHC: Switch the fates of the Roman Empire and Han China
• WI: Northern Wei conquers all of China?
• AHC: Simultaneous Korean and Japanese expansion
• Greatest 'could-have-been' Empires
• Most important military or naval victory by country?
• AHC: China retains control over Vietnam to the Present Day
• AHC: Wank China and Japan
• A successful Chinese invasion of Japan?
• Japanese-Korean Commonwealth
• A ~300-years-old Chinese Dynasty
• AHC: Different "cradles of civilization"
• AHC/WI: Other River Valley Civilizations?
• AHC/WI: A personal union between Japan, Korea, and China?
• AHC/WI: Permanently Disunited China
• AHC/WI: Emperor of Japan claims Chinese Throne?
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• AHC: Goryeo Conquers the Jin Dynasty
• WI: Balhae survives
• Challenge: Military government as a Korean norm
• Martial Arts WI: Korean Text Found in 1949
• First Mongol-Goryeo invasion of Japan Succeeded
• Discussion concerning whether China could establish a colonial empire
• Discussion about several medieval PoDs
• WI:Korean Sakhalin?
• Discussion about holding a “world empire” together
• Discussion about a different Asia with a PoD during the Yuan
• AHC: Korea annexed by China and not by Japan
• Strong Korea/Lame Japan and China
• WI: The Japanese Southern Court won the Nanboku-chō wars?
• WI: Mongol official declares new Korean dynasty?
• Greatest 'could-have-been' Empires
• Wank China and Japan
• DBWI: Mongols fail to take over Japan
• A ~300-years-old Chinese Dynasty
• Question/WI: Japan and Far East Siberia
• Maximum extent of Mongol imperialism
• Cuisine and foods of a Japanese/Korean/Chinese colonized west coast of North America ?
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• Divergences within Korea due to a Japanese PoD
• Alternate Colonizers of Siberia?
• Martial Arts WI: Korean Text Found in 1949
• AHC: Korean population explosion
• Non-Westerners You Want to See a Timeline About
• Discussion on whether other Asian countries could pull a Meiji
• Discussion concerning an early 20th century Chinese PoD's effects on Korea
• Why did Japan Modernize and China and Korea Didn't?
• Hidetsugu administration of China
• How effectively could Korea do a Meiji?
• East Asian discovery of the New World
• Korean Dynasty (in China)
• Opinion: Admiral Yi and the 16th Century Korean Navy
• Discussion about holding a “world empire” together
• Japan a Great Power of the World by the 1600s?
• Toyotomi Strikes South
• Challenge: make Korea one of the Great Powers from 1860 to 1960
• WI: Korean East India Company?
• AHC: Asian Industrial Revolution
• Russian Empire annexes Korea?
• WI no Yi Sun Shin ?
• Major Japanese victory in the Imjin War
• AHC: Japanized Korea
• WI: Oda Nobunaga unified Japan
• AHC: Simultaneous Korean and Japanese expansion
• WI: Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea succeeds
• AHC: Empire of Japan uses Koreans as colonial forces
• Most important military or naval victory by country?
• DBWI: The Manchus ruling over all of China
• AHC: Wank China and Japan
• How successful could Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea have been?
• Japanese Chinese Dynasty
• How would the Korean Empire survive?
• A ~300-years-old Chinese Dynasty
• Is "Pulling a Meiji" truly unique?
• Latest PODs for Korea's modernization
• Plausibility check: Colonial power controls Japan?
• Discussion about (no) Imjin War
• WI: Koreans copied Yoshitoshi's gun?
• Could America Conquer Korea?
• Question on the Qing Dynasty Accepting British Demands
• Meiji Restoration-esque Korea
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• WI Successful March First Movement
• Lee Chang-bong successfully kills Emperor Hirohito
• WI Successful Korean Communist Revolution
• AHC & WI: Successful Jeju Uprising
• Discussion of the repercussions of a US-led invasion into North Korea
• Another thread on a similar topic
• Discussion concerning an early 20th century Chinese PoD's effects on Korea
• Plausibility check: Sino-North Korean War in 1968
• WI: Blue House Raid Successful
• Korean Capital
• Alternate commanders of UN forces in Korean War
• Read and Comment: Korean War timeline
• WI: Second Korean War in 1994
• How important would a united Korea be
• WI: Korean War at 1979
• AHC: Nationalist participation in the "Sino-American War"
• Discussion about a Korea under a "non-militaristic" Japan
• WI Korean military launches self-coup in 1990
• DBWI: If South Korea didn't win the World cup finals in 2002
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• Korea - Why always conquered ?
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