Hwandan Gogi

"All just fuckin' over comical works of fiction."

The Hwandan Gogi (환단고기) is a compilation of texts claiming to document ancient Korean history which first appeared all the way back in 1979. It is ultimately a really, really, really stupid book, and is notable for its pseudohistorical contents, which quite a lot of extremely guillible people, termed as Hwanbba, or Hwandan Gogi, have managed to believe. It is the Korean equivalent of Young Earth Creationism and already thoroughly refuted.

What is funny about Hwandan Wingnuts is that they are unsatisfied with the Hwandan Gogi and keep writing novels to reveal the 'real nature' of ancient history. For example, the Hwandan Gogi says that a 79,000-year-old kingdom called Hwanguk was toppled by 100,000 invaders. Apparently, the number of invaders are too few, and the actual number was about a million. That's why the supposed Korean kingdoms keep getting bigger and bigger. In the 1980s, for example, Hwanguk was in Manchuria. Then in Mongolia. Then in China. And now, it has been revealed that the Sumerians were actually Koreans, and returned to Korea in BCE 2000.

It is composed of a very large number of separate books, like another epic of bullshit, and uses suspiciously modern terms (Mongolia, Siberia) for geography. It is also renowned for conflicting with archaeology on the location of every major site until 676 AD, one of the best being that the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, was originally near Beijing.