Yemaeks

Goguryeo (37 BC – 668 AD) (; ; Old Korean: Guryeo) also later known as Goryeo (; ; Middle Korean: 고ᇢ롕〮, kwòwlyéy), was a Korean kingdom which was located on the northern and central parts of the Korean peninsula and the southern and central parts of modern-day Northeast China (Manchuria). At its peak of power, Goguryeo encompassed most of the Korean peninsula and large parts of Manchuria, along with parts of eastern Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and modern-day Russia.

Buyeo or Puyŏ (; ), also rendered as Fuyu () in Chinese, was an ancient kingdom that was centered in northern Manchuria in modern-day northeast China. It had deep ties to the Yemaek people, who are considered to be the ancestors of modern Koreans. It is also called Northern Buyeo () according to its founding legend.

Okjeo () was an ancient Korean tribal state which arose in the northern Korean peninsula from perhaps the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE.

former state

Yemaek (濊貊) were a people of Koreans who resided in ancient Manchuria. Whether they were: homogenous; heterogenous of Ye 濊 and Maek 貊; or whether Yemaek were a branch of Maek remains debated. However, the most accepted model is that they were ethnolinguistically identical but remained socially and politically disparate identities. The first Yemaek state to appear were 朝鮮 Old Chosŏn that fell in 108 BC. They were renamed Old Chosŏn after Joseon were later founded in 1392 AD: ostensibly as a successor state to Old Chosŏn. Yemaek together with Han 韓 acted as the foundations for the formation of t

ancient Koreanic language of Manchuria