A collection of Hye-Jung Museum of Kyung Hee University, ‘the rubbing of the
inscription on the gravestone of Gwanggaeto the Great(廣開土王)’ was opened to the
public. And it led me to shed new light on the meaning of the inscription. The content
of the inscription of Gwanggaeto the Great was full of unconfirmed information, which
cannot be found in the Bibliographic data, including ‘The Chronicles of the Three States(三
國史記)’. If the inscription of Gwanggaeto the Great was not existed, it would be more
difficult to understand the Three Kingdom Period, including the relation between
Goguryeo(高句麗) and Baekje(百濟), the location of Baekje which was occupied by
Gwanggaeto the Great. The content of the inscription of Gwanggaeto the Great was replete
with new information not found in the Bibliographic data. In the inscription of Gwanggaeto
the Great, the warfare record has the most importance.
And through the record, Goguryeo’s advance to Yimnagara(任那加羅), Paryeo(稗麗)
conquest, protest in Baeksintokok(帛愼土谷), Dongbuyeo(東夫餘) conquest proved to be
true. It was great content beyond imagination with the Bibliographic data. Furthermore, I
can give an assessment of opening a new horizon of the ancient relation between Korea
and Japan, including the relation between Goguryeo and Wae(倭). Even though there were
divergent opinions about the so-called Sinmyo year(辛卯年) of 391(Sinmyo being a year
designator in the sexagenary cycle that characterizes the traditional Sino-oriented East
Asian calendar), I set new theory through Hye Jung Museum’s collection. Therefore, the
significance still remains in its degree.