The Prosperous Bronze Age of Goryeong

As you saw from the rock art, agrarian culture prospered here since the Bronze Age of the Korean Peninsula.

This was because this area was gifted by nature. This area is a basin that is surrounded by mountains. A water stream from the mountain formed fertile farming soil here. Based on this type of productivity, people were able to form a nation.

But the nation established back then did not flourish much. Because of isolation, diverse cultures from the outside could not reach here.

There were a number of small nations here back then. These nations formed a type of political confederacy, and it was called "Gaya." As time progressed, Goryeong became the central region of Gaya based on its fertile environment. We speculate that this was when the name "Dae Gaya" began to be used.