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North and South Korea more than a
millennium later.
Gwanggaeto was also the first king
to introduce a common religion
to the peninsula, and used it as a
unifying factor amongst his people.
Buddhism was accepted in China, but
think that this identity shaping was the Koreans had their own version
the start of the idea that the Korean of indigenous religion, which
peninsula had the same shared worshiped their ancestors and had
ancestry that would contribute to much in common with shamanism.
the unification of the peninsula This religion was not useful in
centuries later, and made sure that it instigating unifying policies, and
stayed that way until the division of Gwanggaeto introduced Buddhism
