북방 기마민족의 가야ㆍ신라로 동천에 관한 연구

A Study on the Immigration of Northern Nomads to the KayaㆍShilla areas

The author explained the hypothesis that the Huns who triggered the Germanics Great Migration in A.D. 375 might have been the same race as Ancient Koreans. The Huns who attacked the vast area of Europe have been longtime supposed to be Hsiung-Nu. Both the Huns and the Hsiung-Nu were not so much strange for Koreans as enemy or friends in the far east asian history because they all had racial and cultural similarities among them. Author also explained the huns who lived in Mongolia area, north-east of China were separated into two groups and the one advanced far into the south-east Europe and the other pushed toward the west-ward. What is more interesting is a theory that some of the wast-ward hun tribes penetrated into The Korean Peninsula, eventually arriving in the southern region of it, KayaㆍShilla. What is the main object of the Immigration of Northern Nomads to the KayaㆍShilla areas. Huns were the cavalry tribe with an improved kind of saddle and steel stirrups, bows, lances and swords. So Iron mine was very important factor to find the adjective area for huns. KayaㆍShilla area was the suitable areas because these areas had the good and abondant Iron ores.