which country is called land of morning calm
Korea
title: Garden of Morning Calm text: Garden of Morning Calm The Garden of Morning Calm () is an arboretum located at the east of Seoul, in the Gapyeong district of South Korea. On 300,000 m², it houses 5,000 species of plants, some rare or endangered and attracts 600,000 tourists per year. The name of this garden reminds that Korea is often nicknamed the "country of the morning calm". There are different festivals in this garden, especially in winter with a light festival. Designed in 1996 by professor Han San-kyung of Sahmyook University with the ambition of spreading the Korean interpretation of beauty, it is an artistic title: Korea text: have had the meaning "big" or "great", particularly in reference to leaders. It has been tentatively linked with the title "khan" used by the nomads of Manchuria and Central Asia. In North Korea, China, Vietnam and Japan, Korea as a whole is referred to as , (), "Jīusīn", "Cháoxiǎn", (), "Chōsen", "" () "[land of the] Morning Calm"). "Great Joseon" was the name of the kingdom ruled by the Joseon dynasty from 1393 until their declaration of the short-lived Great Korean Empire in 1897. King Taejo had named them for the earlier who ruled northern Korea from its legendary prehistory title: Names of Korea text: Some speculate that it also corresponds to Chinese references to (, suksin), (, jiksin) and (, siksin), although these latter names probably describe the ancestors of the Jurchen. Other scholars believe was a "translation" of the native Korean "Asadal" (), the capital of Gojoseon: "asa" being a hypothetical Altaic root word for "morning", and "dal" meaning "mountain", a common ending for Goguryeo place names. An early attempt to translate these characters into English gave rise to the expression "The Land of the Morning Calm" for Korea, which parallels the expression "The Land of the Rising Sun" for Japan. While the title: Names of Korea text: and was first used during the reign of Jangsu in the 5th century. Through the Silk Road trade routes, Muslim merchants brought knowledge about Silla and Goryeo to India and the Middle East. Goryeo was transliterated into Italian as "Cauli", the name Marco Polo used when mentioning the country in his "Travels," derived from the Chinese form "Gāolí". In 1392, a new dynasty established by a military coup revived the name Joseon (, ). The hanja were often translated into English as "morning calm/sun", and Korea's English nickname became "The Land of the Morning Calm"; however, this interpretation is not title: Names of Korea text: often used in the Korean language, and is more familiar to Koreans as a back-translation from English. This nickname was coined by Percival Lowell in his book, "Choson, the Land of the Morning Calm," published in 1885. In 1897, the nation was renamed "Daehan Jeguk" (, , literally, "Great Han Empire", known in English as Korean Empire). "Han" had been selected in reference to "Samhan", specifically the Three Kingdoms of Korea, not the ancient confederacies in the southern Korean Peninsula. So, "Daehan Jeguk" (, ) means it is an empire that rules the area of Three Kingdoms of Korea. This