Tusi se faʻaauau mo lenei parakalafa - O le Nationalist historiography e faʻamanatuina manumalo eseese o "Koreans" i luga o "tagata mai fafo" e aofia ai le Goguryeo<unk>Sui War (612), Goguryeo<unk>Tang War (645), Goryeo<unk>Khitan War (1018), Korea-Jurchen taua (1107), Mongol osofaʻiga o Korea
(1231<unk>73), ma osofaʻiga a Iapani i Korea (1592<unk>1598). O lea la, o toa o le militeli e pei o Eulji Mundeok o Goguryeo<unk> ma o taʻitaʻi uma o malo e tolu i aso nei o Goguryeo, Baekje, ma Silla<unk> ua tofiaina se masani, "atunuu" faasinomaga o Korea. Ae peitaʻi, e tusa ai ma upu a John Duncan, e "matua lē mafai" ona iloa e tagata o na malo, "se vaega toʻatele o tagata 'Korea' e lē o ni tagatānuu ma e lē o ni tagatānuu". Yi Sang-ryong, o le na finau o le talafaasolopito "na siitia ai le mamalu o le atunuu ma faafaileleina le lotonuu" ("kungmin chŏngshin") na ia faapea mai i le taimi o le "talafaasolopito i matu" o tagata Korea i Manchuria, mai le taimi o Dangun i Balhae, o le Sushen ("Suksin") ma tagata Iapani sa i lalo o Dangun.