Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
King Chinhung of Korea’s Silla Dynasty conceived of a training program to shape the country’s most promising young people into a skilled class to serve the monarchy. The students were drawn from the aristocracy, and originally included girls, until one of the founding members pushed another into a stream and drowned her out of jealousy.
After that, the program was called the Hwarang Boys Academy, which produced the the Hwarang Knights, an elite group of warriors…The post The Metrosexual Knights Who Defended Medieval Korea appeared first on FeedBox.