NOTE
Chosen (The Land of Morning Calm) was the original name of the peninsula kingdom. It is regularly used by Japanese and Koreans today. The name Korea is a perverted form of Koryo. During the Koryo period the ruling house happened to be particularly intimate with China. Cow-oo-li was the name by which the country became familiar to China. This developed into “Corea” and “Korea” which, though not strictly correct, are now in general use.