Flag of South Korea
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The national flag of the Republic of Korea, also known as the Taegeukgi, consists of three components: a white rectangular background, a red and blue taegeuk in its center, accompanied by four black t
Inauguration of the First Republic of Korea on 15 August 1948
Taegukgi with signatures by Korean Liberation Army (1945)
Taegukgi with anti-North Korean mottos and signatures by student soldiers from Gyeongju (1950)
Korean flag 1944 United States stamp detail
Bagua
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The bagua is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as comprising mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another. Bagua is a group of trigrams—composed of three lin
Flag of South Korea
…Korean: 태극기; Hanja: 太極旗), consists of three components: a white rectangular background, a red and blue taegeuk in its center, accompanied by four black trigrams, one in each corner. The predecessors to the current Taegeukgi were used as the national flag of Korea by the Joseon dynasty, the Korean Empire, as…
Bagua diagram explanation from Zhao Huiqian's 六書本義; Liùshū běnyì, 1370s
Alternative conversion of the trigrams to binary
Cast bronze Bagua mirror with trigrams decor. Song dynasty, AD 960-1279.
Three variants of modern Bagua mirror talismans sold at a shop. From left to right: Flat, Convex, Concave.