The Authentic Orthography
Founder of Korea, First King · Lord of the sandalwood
Unicode restoration and ASCII comparison
단군 (檀君)
The name in its original Korean form. Dangun (단군 (檀君)) is attested in the source tradition — “Lord of the sandalwood”. Its original diacritics and script distinctions carry the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
dangun
The plain dangun form is identical to the Unicode restoration. Because this name is already written in Latin letters, no diacritics, stress, or script information were lost — only capitalization differs.
Dangun
The Unicode restoration does not need to recover lost marks for Dangun. Its value is canonical spelling and consistent cataloguing, not the reconstruction of erased orthography. The domain is readable as-is to both DNS and humanity.
Dangun.com → dangun.com
The non-ASCII characters in Dangun are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Dangun.
How Dangun travels from ancient script to the modern URL
Owned, ideal, and ASCII forms of Dangun
Dangun
Restores 단군 (檀君). The full Unicode restoration. dangun.com is not in the PuniCodex collection — it is watched for release; if it drops, this temple upgrades to an owned flagship.
How Dangun was spoken
founder of Gojoseon and first ancestor of the Korean people
Dangun is the legendary founder of Gojoseon and the first ancestor of the Korean people in Korean tradition. The name means "Lord of the sandalwood" and belongs to the domain "Founder of Korea, First King." Dangun is the son of Hwanung, the heavenly prince who descended to earth, and Ungnyeo, a bear who became a woman after enduring one hundred days in a cave eating garlic and mugwort. He is said to have founded the state of Gojoseon at Asadal in 2333 BCE, an event commemorated on National Foundation Day, 3 October.
Dangun is the mythic first king whose reign marks the beginning of Korean statehood.
His birth unites heavenly descent with the transformed earth-animal, modelling cosmic and terrestrial harmony.
The sacred capital where Dangun established law, agriculture, and the ordering of the people.
After his long reign Dangun became a mountain spirit, still invoked for protection and prosperity.
Stories of Dangun
The mythology of Dangun is preserved in Korean oral tradition, shamanic ritual texts, and classical sources such as the Samguk Yusa. The narratives are not merely stories; they encode social values, ritual obligations, and relationships between humans, nature, and the sacred. Some details vary by region and by shamanic lineage.
Hwanung tested a bear and a tiger by locking them in a cave with only garlic and mugwort. The tiger gave up, but the bear endured one hundred days and became a woman named Ungnyeo. Hwanung then took her as his wife, and she bore Dangun.
Dangun established the capital at Asadal and ruled over Gojoseon for one thousand five hundred years. The date traditionally given for the founding, 3 October 2333 BCE, is celebrated as National Foundation Day.
At the end of his reign Dangun left the affairs of state and withdrew into the mountains, where he became a sansin, a mountain deity who continues to protect the land and its people.
Dangun invites reflection on the relationship between name, place, and identity. The restoration of the capitalised scholarly form is a small act of recognition: it marks the name as a proper noun of continuing significance in Korean culture and resists the flattening effect of ASCII-only domain names.
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