Korea

The end as dynastic script: the Jeong king rises, the ten refuges receive the faithful, and the mandate changes hands.

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Korea's place in the archive is the Jeonggamnok, a secret prophecy text that circulated from the seventeenth century: a schedule of dynastic collapse and renewal, ending in the rise of a righteous king of the Jeong family and the appearance of an end-time human after all the cycles run out. It is the archive's clearest case of apocalypse as politics — used and suppressed, quoted by new religions and outlawed by the state, alive in Korea's prophetic imagination for four centuries.

Traditions

Korean Prophetic Tradition (Jeonggamnok)

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The end as dynastic script: the Jeonggamnok, a secret prophecy circulating from the 17th century, schedules the collapse of the Yi dynasty, the moral deformities of the end-times, the ten refuges of salvation, and the rise of the Jeong king — apocalypse as political program, banned and believed for four centuries.

1 myth

Stories

The Jeonggamnok: Prophecy as Politics

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The end as dynastic script: Korea's secret prophecy schedules the fall of the Yi house, the moral deformities of the last days, ten places of refuge, and the rise of the Jeong king.

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