Abstract
The purpose of this article is to reveal the reality of the Nakrang kingdom(Nakrang-guk), which was hidden by the Nakrang-gun of the Han Dynasty in our history. In Korean history, there is another political force called Nakrang kingdom in addition to the name of Nakrang-gun, but it is unknown.
 Lee Byung-do, a former member of the Japanese Government-General of Korea, who took control of the Korean history after liberation, made the establishment of Nakrang-gun a fait accompli and claimed that it was in the present Daedong River in Pyongyang.
 This colonial view gave a negative perception of Choi-ri, the king of Nakrang kingdom, in the book ‘Samguk-Sagi’, and made him block the study of Nakrang kingdom.
 Earlier, Shin Chae-ho argued that the Nakrang kingdom and Nakrang-gun of Choi-ri were in different areas. From the same point of view, Lee Ji-rin and Yoon Nae-hyun argued that Pyongyang had a separate “Choi-ri's Nakrang kingdom”. They commonly named this country “Choi's Nakrang kingdom” and viewed it as a successor to Gojoseon.
 Nevertheless, it was not possible to know in detail when and who founded Choi's Nakrang kingdom and how much territory it had. On this issue, a book called ‘BukbuYeo-gi’ reveals that a man named Choi-Soong crossed the sea to Mahan and entered Wanggeomseong Fortress in 195 B.C.
 In addition, the book ‘Taebaek-Ilsa’ reveals that not only Pyongyang but also the Haeseong area of Liaodong was the territory of the Nakrang kingdom.
 Based on these new facts, it will be recognized that it already existed in Pyongyang of the Nakrang kingdom of the Choi clan before the establishment of Nakrang-gun (108 BC).
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