More Korean swords

[Mike McKinney]

Here is another korean sword website it has some great pics of old and new korean swords as well as some info on korean military tactics

Here is the link.
http://www.swords.pe.kr

[Mike McKinney]

heres another pic

[Mike McKinney]

I think this one is my favorite.
Anybody know where I can get one of these in the U.S.?

[Wu Tuan]

looks like we are going to have to learn korean.

i wonder how much one of those shinkendo would cost.

[Brian Chan]

looks like a really informative compilation
if only I could read it

I like the double edged korean sword with the hollow pommel.

thanks!

[Tomi K.]

That is a great site. Thank you for the link.
You can translate the site with altavistas babelfish, allthough the translation is quite bad it's better than nothing:

http://babelfish.altavista.com

[Thomas Chen]

Hi All

Thanks for the link.

My sincerest compliments to the website content designer for a wonderfully researched website....I had learnt a lot on various aspects of Korean warfare. Outstanding website !!!

However, though he/she had listed my website on the references / bibliography page, this fella just blatantly plagarised my website pics and research content wholesale and Scott Rodell's as well without asking.....

But, if it serves to educate the Korean-speaking public about Chinese, Korean and Japanese swords and help raise their awareness levels and connoisseurship skills, I guess I will close one eye and not ask a hacker friend of mine to deface the website and flood their mailbox with 500,000 spam emails

BTW, these cool-looking korean swords really look like they can kick some ass....I like 'em...

[Mike McKinney]

Hears a link to a manufacturer that I found on the site.
http://www.swordart.co.kr/

Check out this sword!

[Mike McKinney]

heres one of a slightly different style.

[Mike McKinney]

finnaly from the original site a pair of korean Mio Dao I suppose.

[Thomas Yuan]

Wow! Those were what katana's were based off of right?

[Bruce W Sims]

What a great site, Mike! Many thanks for the tip. Of course you know this means you guys are going to have to learn Korean, but of course, that was right up close to the top of your "to-do" list, right? (Yeah, right after "secure World peace for the foreseeable future".) I am not sure who is sponsoring the site, though. SEHYUN ( the one pic is a standard of SEHYUN advertising) has its own website. I wonder if this is some sort of advocacy group for the revitalized Korean sword industry. I'll have to have my teacher look in and give me his take on it. Once again, nice job, Mike.

Best Wishes,

Bruce

[Alina Boyden]

Originally posted by Wu Tuan
looks like we are going to have to learn korean.

i wonder how much one of those shinkendo would cost.

It looks like one of them is listed as 1.2 million won. That's about 1000 US dollars.

Alina

Edit: Most of them appear to be cheaper between 400,000 and 700,000 won. So more like 400-600 dollars.