<P> In North Korea , China , Japan , Vietnam , and Chinese and Vietnamese - speaking areas , Korea as a whole is referred to as Chosŏn ( 조선 , Joseon , ( tɕoshʌn ) , , ( 朝鲜 ) , Cháoxiǎn , ( 朝鮮 ) , Chōsen , Triều Tiên ( 朝鮮 ) lit . `` ( 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 Kojoseon ( 고조선 ) , who ruled northern Korea from its legendary prehistory until their conquest in 108 BC by China 's Han Empire . This go is the Hanja 古 and simply means `` ancient '' or `` old '' ; it is a modern usage to distinguish the ancient Joseon from the later dynasty . Joseon itself is the modern Korean pronunciation of the Hanja 朝鮮 but it is unclear whether this was a transcription of a native Korean name ( OC * T ( r ) awser , MC Trjewsjen ) or a partial translation into Chinese of the Korean capital Asadal ( 아사달 ) , whose meaning has been reconstructed as `` Morning Land '' or `` Mountain '' . </P>
<P> In North Korea , China , Japan , Vietnam , and Chinese and Vietnamese - speaking areas , Korea as a whole is referred to as Chosŏn ( 조선 , Joseon , ( tɕoshʌn ) , , ( 朝鲜 ) , Cháoxiǎn , ( 朝鮮 ) , Chōsen , Triều Tiên ( 朝鮮 ) lit . `` ( 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 Kojoseon ( 고조선 ) , who ruled northern Korea from its legendary prehistory until their conquest in 108 BC by China 's Han Empire . This go is the Hanja 古 and simply means `` ancient '' or `` old '' ; it is a modern usage to distinguish the ancient Joseon from the later dynasty . Joseon itself is the modern Korean pronunciation of the Hanja 朝鮮 but it is unclear whether this was a transcription of a native Korean name ( OC * T ( r ) awser , MC Trjewsjen ) or a partial translation into Chinese of the Korean capital Asadal ( 아사달 ) , whose meaning has been reconstructed as `` Morning Land '' or `` Mountain '' . </P>
which nation is know as land of morning calm
which nation is know as land of morning calm
Korea
Korea