Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- 하나님의 아들
- Transliteration
- Hananim-ui adeul
- Rejected alternatives
- 환웅식 하늘의 아들
Son Of God
Korea’s own founding myth (the Dangun legend) tells of Hwanung, described as the son of the heavenly god Hwanin, descending to found Korea’s first kingdom — a real but comparatively low-intensity echo (mythological/legendary rather than a living state ideology, unlike historic Chinese or pre-1946 Japanese imperial-divinity doctrines). Full phrase 하나님의 아들 required; avoid any framing that assimilates Christ’s Sonship to this founding-myth pattern of a heaven-descended founder-son.