1. ^Watson, Burton, tr. Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty II. Revised edition. New York, Columbia University Press, 1993. p. 225-230.
2. ^*{{cite book|last=Peterson|first=Mark|title=Brief History of Korea|url=https://books.google.com/?id=ByIo1D9RY40C&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-2738-5|page=6}}:"The term was used again by a refugee from the Han dynasty named Wiman, who about 200 B.C.E. set up a kingdom in Korea called Wiman Choson."*{{cite book|last=Cotterell|first=Arthur|title=Asia: A Concise History|url=https://books.google.com/?id=9_vVTWXK5kQC&pg=PT80#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2011 |publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0470825044}}:"The earliest documented event in Korean history involves China. After an unsuccessful rising against the first Han emperor Gaozu, the defeated rebels sought refuge beyond the imperial frontier and one of them Wiman, took control of Choson, a Korean state in the north of the peninsula."*{{cite book|last=Kim|first=Jinwung|title=A History of Korea: From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict|url=https://books.google.com/?id=QFPsi3IK8gcC&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2012 |publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253000248|page=10}}:"For instance, Wiman, a refugee from the Yan dynasty, which then existed around present-day Beijing, led his band of more than 1,000 followers into exile in Old Chosŏn in the early second century bc."*{{cite book|last=Kim|first=Jinwung|title=A History of Korea: From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict|url=https://books.google.com/?id=QFPsi3IK8gcC&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2012 |publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253000248|page=16}}:"Wiman Chosŏn In the fourth century bc Old Chosŏn was bordered on the west, far beyond the Liao River, by the northern Chinese dynasty of Yan."*{{cite book|last=Kim|first=Jinwung|title=A History of Korea: From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict|url=https://books.google.com/?id=QFPsi3IK8gcC&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2012 |publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253000248|page=18}}:"Immediately after destroying Wiman Chosŏn, the Han empire established administrative units to rule large territories in the northern Korean peninsula and southern Manchuria."*{{cite book|last=Xu|first= Stella Yingzi|title=That glorious ancient history of our nation|url=https://books.google.com/?id=YFYVwaS8N58C&pg=PA220#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2007 |publisher=University of California, Los Angeles|isbn=9780549440369|page=220}}:"Here, Wiman was described as a "Gu Yanren 故燕人"or a person from former Yan. It is confusing because there were two Yans around this period. The first was the Yan state, which was one of the seven states during the Warring States period, and the second was the vassal state of Yan of the Han dynasty."*{{cite book|last=Holcombe|first=Charles|title=The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.-A.D. 907|url=https://books.google.com/?id=XT5pvPZ4vroC&pg=PA165#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2001 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-2465-5|page=165}}:"One of his ex-subordinates in Yan, named Wiman, together with some 1000 followers, sought refuge elsewhere among the old Qin fortifications in what is now Korea."*{{cite book|last=Holcombe|first=Charles|title=The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.-A.D. 907|url=https://books.google.com/?id=XT5pvPZ4vroC&pg=PA166#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2001 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-2465-5|page=166}}:"Wiman is probably most accurately understood to have simply been a man from Yan."*{{cite book|last=Dyson Walker|first=Hugh|title=East Asia　A New History|url=https://books.google.com/?id=GBvRs-za0CIC&pg=PA100#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2012|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=978-1-47726-517-8|page=100}}:"One of Lu Wan's generals, Wei Man (K, Wiman), defected from Yan, led his forces to Korea where he defeated Ko-Choson, ousted king Chun (who may have fled south), and established his own state with his capital at Wanggom (P'yongyang)."*{{cite book|last=Shin|first=Michael D.|title=Korean History in Maps|url=https://books.google.com/?id=46OTBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107098466|page=20}}:"195 BCE: Wiman flees the state of Yan and arrives in Joseon where he is made responsible for the defense of the Western border."*{{cite book|last=Penny|first=Benjamin|title=Religion and Biography in China and Tibet|url=https://books.google.com/?id=bZWsklhXlnsC&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2013 |publisher=Routledge; Reissue edition|isbn=978-0415861588|page=101}}:"Wei Man (K. Wi Man), a man from the state of Yan who made himself king of Chaoxian (Choson) when Qin conquered Yan, by leading refugees from Yan and Qi into Northern Korea."*{{cite book|last=SHIM|first=JAE-HOON|title=Journal of Asian History Vol. 40|url=|year=2008|publisher=O. Harrassowitz|isbn=978-1-4051-5303-4|page=35}}:"Choson underwent another period of turmoil the usurpation by Wiman, a refugee from Yan, circa 194 B.C."*{{cite book|last=J. Gordon|first=Melton|title=A History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/?id=bI9_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA221#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2014 |publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-61069-025-6|page=221}}:"Wiman, a general from the state of Yan, one of the last states to submit to the control of the Han Dynasty in China, left for Korea where he receives a new position assisting King Jun, the ruler of Gojoseon."*{{cite book|last=Lee|first=Peter H.|title=Sourcebook of Korean Civilization|url=https://books.google.com/?id=ZU1uLvWyRJYC&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2013|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0231079129|page=9}}:"Wiman, the king of Choson (Ch'ao-hsien), came originally from the state of Yen."*{{cite book|last=Ho-Min|first=Sohn|title=The Korean Language|url=https://books.google.com/?id=Sx6gdJIOcoQC&pg=PA37#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521369435|page=37}}:"According to Samguk Yusa, the Kica Cosen period was initiated around 1120 BC by Kica, a scion of the fallen Shang Dynasty of China who fled to Ancient Cosen and the Wiman Cosen period was begun around 194 BC by Wiman, a Chinese military leader of Yen who fled to Ancient Cosen and usurped the throne."*{{cite book|last=Hyung|first=Hyung Il|title=Constructing "Korean" Origins|url=https://books.google.com/?id=QxztLeLoVkQC&pg=PA141#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2000 |publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674002449|page=141}}:"`The Account of Zhao- xian` relates the circumstances of a certain Wiman, a lieutenant of the state of Yan, who later became the king of Choson."*{{cite book|last=Hyung|first=Hyung Il|title=Constructing "Korean" Origins|url=https://books.google.com/?id=QxztLeLoVkQC&pg=PA142#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2000 |publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674002449|page=142}}:"This interpretation of Wiman as the Leader of a Yan refugee group who became a Choson ruler is generally accepted as the starting point of Korean state formation in historical times."*{{cite book|last=Miyake|first=Marc Hideo|title=Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction|url=https://books.google.com/?id=1bp_AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA109#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn= 978-0415305754|page=109}}:"Weiman (Korean Wiman) of the northeastern Chinese state of Yan took over the northern part of the peninsula circa the third century CE."*{{citebook|last=Tudisco|first=A.J|title=Asia Emerges|year=1967|publisher=Diablo Press|ASIN=B0006BT5YK|page=366}}:"In 193 BC, a rebellion against the Kija Dynasty was led by Wiman, a Manchurian who had deserted the Chinese army and was serving Kija as a border guard."*{{cite book|last=Tennant|first=Roger|title=History Of Korea|url=https://books.google.com/?id=SlGnq9flYdMC&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=1996|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0710305329|page=18}}:"Retaliation by the Han then brought in refugees from Yan, the most notable of whom was a war lord, Weiman ('Wiman'in Korean), who somewhere about 200 BC led his followers into the territory held by Choson."*{{cite book|last=Seth|first=Michael J.|title=A Concise History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/?id=5URKAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA17#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1442235175|page=17}}:"In 195 BCE, the Yan king revolted and went over to the Xiongnu, a steppe nomad people.One of his lieutenants, Wiman (Chinese: Weiman), is recorded in the Shiji as having fled with 1,000 followers to Chosŏn, where the ruler Chun appointed him a frontier commander."*{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=Insup|title=Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese|url=https://books.google.com/?id=WDw4gBaPjZgC&pg=PA186#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2014|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company|isbn=978-9027218100|page=186}}:"In 194 BC Old Chosön became Wiman Chosön when it was overthrown by the leader of a group of Chinese refugees, Wiman."*{{cite book|last=Lee|first=Kenneth B.|title=Korea and East Asia: The Story of a Phoenix|url=https://books.google.com/?id=XrZQs-6KswMC&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=1997|publisher=Praeger|isbn=978-0275958237|page=11}}:"In 108 B.c., the Han emperor Wu Ti destroyed Wiman and established four Han provinces."*{{cite book|last=Bowman|first=John Stewart|title=Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/?id=cYoHOqC7Yx4C&pg=PA193#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2000|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0231110044|page=193}}:"After a period of decline, Old Choson falls to Wiman, an exile from the Yan state in northern China. Wiman proves to be a strong ruler, but his ambitious program of expansion eventually brings him into conflict with the Han dynasty of China. The Han defeats Wiman Choson and establishes a protectorate over northern Korea in 108 b.c. Resistance to Chinese hegemony, however, is strong, and China reduces the territory under its active control to Nang-nang colony with an administrative center near modern Pyongyang."*{{cite book|last=Buckley|first=Patricia|title=Pre-Modern East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History, Volume I: To 1800|url=https://books.google.com/?id=ou-hq_FlQY4C&pg=PA100#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2008|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=978-0547005393|page=100}}:"Sima Qian's Historical Records, written around 100 B.C.E., records that in 195 B.C.E., when the king of the Han Dynasty state of Yan (in the region of modern Beijing) rebelled, one of his lieutenants named Weiman (Wiman in Korean) fled east to Choson (Chaoxian in Chinese) with a thousand followers."*{{cite book|last=Kim|first=Djun Kil|title=The History of Korea|url=https://books.google.com/?id=h4WhAna6dlMC&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2005|publisher=Greenwood|isbn=978-0313332968|page=19}}:"The Han Chinese triumph was possible because the political solidarity of Wiman Joseon, which was nothing more than a loose tribal confederation, was not centralized enough to hold back external invasion. In this region, Wudi established four prefectures: Lelang, Zhenfan, Lintun, and Xientu."*{{cite book|last=Savada|first=Andrea Matles|title=EARLY KOREA[Excerpted from North Korea: A Country Study. Washington, DC: Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress]|url=|year=1993}}:"As the Yen gave way in China to the Qin (221-207 B.C.) and the Han dynasties (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), Chosn declined, and refugee populations migrated eastward. Out of this milieu, emerged Wiman, a man who assumed the kingship of Chosn sometime between 194 and 180 B.C. The Kingdom of Wiman Chosn melded Chinese influence, and under the Old Chosn federated structure--apparently reinvigorated under Wiman--the state again expanded over hundreds of kilometers of territory. Its ambitions ran up against a Han invasion, however, and Wiman Chosn fell in 108 B.C."*{{cite book|last=Silberman|first=Neil Asher|title=The Oxford Companion to Archaeology|url=https://books.google.com/?id=xeJMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA161#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn= 9780199735785|page=161}}:"According to the Shijing (Book of Odes), after Yan was defeated by the Jin state in 221 BC, Weiman, a former Yan officer, invaded KoChosun and founded a principality with its capital near P'yongyang around 194 BC."*{{citebook|last=Mark E Byington |first=Project Director of the Early Korea Project|title=Early Korea 2: The Samhan Period in Korean History|url=|year=2009|publisher=Korea Institute, Harvard University|isbn=978-0979580031|page=98}}:"In fact, of the entire contents of the Han Account, only three portions are believed to contain information of a historical nature. The first portion states that in the early-second century B.C. (between 194 and 180 B.C.), King Chun of Chosön was attacked by Wei Man, an exile from Yan China, and fled to the Han territory, accompanied only by a few court officials, where he called himself the King of Han."*{{cite book|last=KBS|first=Radio Korea International (RKI)|title=History of Korea|year=1995|publisher=Jung Moon, Seoul|isbn=978-8986625004|page=18}}:"Wiman: A government official of the Chinese Yan Empire, Wiman fled to Kojoson with a band of his followers."*{{cite book|last=Sohn|first=Ho-Min|title=Korean Language in Culture And Society|url=https://books.google.com/?id=H4CsWDEi52IC&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2005|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0824826949|page=45}}:"The only deduction we can make is that practical knowledge of Chinese and the Chinese script in Korea dates back to 194 B.C., when Wiman, from Yen in China, founded a primitive Korean state in the northwestern part of the peninsula.":"Subsequently, the establishment by China's Han dynasty of their four commanderies on the soil of Wiman' s Ancient Choson in 108 B.C. must have familiarized the resident Koreans with Chinese and the Chinese script."*{{cite book|last=Hiltebeitel|first=Alf|title=Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures|url=https://books.google.com/?id=PRPymT12c40C&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=1998|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-0791437421|page=113}}:"The Chaoxian (Korea) chapter of this Chinese history describes the origin of the first recorded Korean state, called in Korean "Wiman Choson." Wiman, the founder of the new state, had lived in the northeastern Chinese state of Yan but fled to Korea due to shifting political alliances.":"These tombs are associated with the Lelang commandery, which was established by the Han dynasty of China, successor to the Qin. Han generals conquered the armies of Wiman's grandson Ugo and established control over the northern part of the Korean peninsula."*{{cite book|last=Yu|first=Chai-Shin|agency=Radio Korea International (RKI)|title=The New History of Korean Civilization|url=https://books.google.com/?id=RzVkgoq7npYC&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2012|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-1462055593|page=19}}:"At this time a large number of people migrated to the Chosŏn fleeing from the Liaoning region on account of the chaos and confusion in China that was produced by the fall of the Chinese Qin Dynasty and the rise of the Han Dynasty. Among these migrants was a man named Wiman who was ordered by King Chun to guard Chosŏn's borders."*{{cite book|last=Yu|first=Chai-Shin|agency=Radio Korea International (RKI)|title=The New History of Korean Civilization|url=https://books.google.com/?id=TYKNdiDCGLAC&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2012|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-1462055593|page=21}}:"The Han established 'four commanderies' (Chin. sijun, Kor. sagun) in the conquered territories of Wiman Chosŏn, The commanderies were named Lelang (Kor. Nangnang), Zhenfan (Kor. Chinbon), Lintun (Kor. Imdun), and Xuantu (Kor. Hyéna'o)."*{{cite book|last=|first=|title=The Review of Korean Studies Vol.10|url=|year=2007|page=222}}:"This was the beginning of Wiman Joseon. Some view Wiman Joseon as a colonial dynasty of China because of the origin of Wiman, but it is accepted theory to include Wiman Joseon as part of Gojoseon."*{{cite book|last=Kang|first=Jae-eun|title=The Land of Scholars: Two Thousand Years of Korean Confucianism|url=https://books.google.com/?id=iB8R0oEH3kEC&pg=PA29#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2006|publisher=Homa & Seka Books|isbn=978-1931907309|page=29}}:"Wiman (衛滿), a leader of Yan, chased King Jun (準王) of Gojoseon out of the throne in 194 BC. This is the so-called Wissi Joseon (衛氏朝鮮), the first state of ancient Korea historically verifiable."*{{cite book|last=Pratt|first=Keith|title=Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea|url=https://books.google.com/?id=1Gui8CdUfVoC&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2006|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=978-1861892737|page=10}}:"108 BC: Han armies invade Wiman Choson; Chinese commanderies are set up across the north of the peninsula"*{{cite book|last=Pratt|first=Keith|title=Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea|url=https://books.google.com/?id=1Gui8CdUfVoC&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2006|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=978-1861892737|page=18}}:"In the process they re-examined Chinese and Korean historical records and came up with two better authenticated alternatives to Tan'gun as founders of their kingdom, the aforesaid Kija, and Wiman (Ch. Wei Man). Both were apparently of Chinese origin and had founded Chinese-style statelets to set the peninsula on its historical path."*{{cite book|last=Nelson|first=Sarah Milledge|title=The Archaeology of Korea|url=https://books.google.com/?id=sANORB_MSRUC&pg=PA167#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=1993|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521407830|page=167}}:"According to the Wei Ji, groups of ethnic Chinese were already living in Korea when Wiman, a general from a nearby Chinese state, "adopt the mallet shaped hairdo and dress of the eastern barbarians", and fled into the peninsula with about a thousand followers."*{{cite book|last=Kim|first=Choong Soon|title=Voices of Foreign Brides: The Roots and Development of Multiculturalism in Korea|url=https://books.google.com/?id=QxztLeLoVkQC&pg=PA60#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2011|publisher=AltaMira Press|isbn=978-0759120358|page=60}}:"The elevation of Tan'gun to historical status is a direct challenge to Kija, a Shang aristocrat enfeoffed in Choson at the time of the fall of the Shang dynasty. Kija was later followed by Wiman, a general from the state of Yan who arrived around 195—194 BC to set up Wiman Choson and whose descendants later contested Han emperor Wu's invasion in 108 BC. Thus, the traditionally accepted dynastic state sequence of the Sam Choson of Kochoson, Kija Choson, and Wiman Choson has been overturned in the revised Korean ancestral state lineage."*{{cite book|last=|first=|title=Sino-Japanese Studies, Vol.14～Vol.15|year=2002|publisher=Sino-Japanese Studies Group|page=49}}:"One of Lu Guan's generals, Wiman, escaped with one thousand of his followers to northeastern Korea and became a ruler there in about 194 B.C.E. Wiman's Choson was eventually overthrown by the Han empire in 108 B.C.E."* {{citation|last=Ch'oe|first=Yŏng-ho|title=An Outline History of Korean Historiography|journal=Korean Studies|volume=4|year=1980|pages=1–27|doi=10.1353/ks.1980.0003}}:"The Shih chi, mentioned earlier, and the Han shu [History of Han], written in the first century A. D., limit the treatment of Korea in their respective biography sections to descriptions of the establishment of Wiman (Weiman in Chinese) Choson and the military campaigns waged by Emperor Wu ti of Han to subdue this ancient Korean dynasty."*{{cite book|last=Wells|first=Kenneth M|title=Korea: Outline of a Civilisation|url=https://books.google.com/?id=6zoLCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2015|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-9004299719|page=13}}:"Historical knowledge becomes firmer from the second century BC, when the dominant political force in the region was of Chinese origin. This brings us to Wiman Chosŏn."*{{cite book|last=Wells|first=Kenneth M|title=Korea: Outline of a Civilisation|url=https://books.google.com/?id=6zoLCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA14#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2015|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-9004299719|page=14}}:"Among these refugees was one called Wiman, or Wei-man in Chinese, a general of the state of Yan, who managed to flee with around 1000 of his soldiers."*{{cite book|last=Wells|first=Kenneth M|title=Korea: Outline of a Civilisation|url=https://books.google.com/?id=6zoLCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2015|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-9004299719|page=15}}:"The Chinese emplaced three commanderies in Wiman Chosŏn territory, the chief of which was called Lo-lang (Nangnang in Korean)."*{{cite book|last=Meyer|first=Milton W.|title=Asia: A Concise History|url=https://books.google.com/?id=DbQcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=1997 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=978-0847680634|page=118}}:"Around 190 B.C., a man called Wiman (Wei Man in Chinese), who was either of Chinese background or a Korean in Chinese employ, usurped the throne of Choson."*{{cite book|last=Hulbert|first=H. B.|title=The History of Korea|url=https://books.google.com/?id=WdusAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2000 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0700707003|page=21}}:"On the other hand, the “refugee” who came to Choson shortly after 200 b.c. is called by his Korean name, Wiman, rather than the Chinese form, Wei-man, because he became a part of the Korean community."*{{cite book|last=Yi|first=Hun-gu|title=A History of Land Systems and Policies in Korea|year=1929 |publisher=University of Wisconsin--Madison|page=1}}:"His descendants governed the people until Kija, a wise Chinese philosopher came to the country. Later in 193 B.C. King Kijun was overthrown by his subject Wiman, a refugee from China, and fled to the southern part of the Korean peninsula."*{{cite book|last=Grayson|first=James H.|title=Korea - A Religious History|url=https://books.google.com/?id=iUf8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0700716050|page=16}}:"One of these refugees, Wiman, led a revolt in 190 BC, usurping the throne and establishing a state called Wiman Choson."*{{cite book|last=Linduff|first=Katheryn M.|title=Are All Warriors Male?: Gender Roles on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe|url=https://books.google.com/?id=Xd5bAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA123#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2008|publisher=AltaMira Press|isbn=978-0759110748|page=123}}:"Chinese accounts relate that the state of Chosun, whose ruler was named King Chun, was overthrown by a renegade Chinese from Liaodong named Wiman.":"Horse and chariot burials from the 2nd century BCE which are earlier than the Chinese commandery of Lelang (called Nangnang in Korean), which was established in 108 BCE, have also been found in the vicinity of Pyongyang and thus would date from the time of Wiman Chosun.""*{{cite book|last=Kim|first=Sun Joo|title=Marginality and Subversion in Korea|url=https://books.google.com/?id=yHmKU9XgW-cC&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2015|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0295996042|page=16}}:"Historical records reveal a more detailed and clearer picture of the history of the northwest region after Wiman (Ch.: Wei Man), a refugee from the Chinese state of Yan (?–222 B.C.E.), usurped the throne from King Chun of the old Choson kingdom sometime between 194 and 180 B.C.E.":"Wiman Choson fell in 108 B.C.E. to the Chinese Han dynasty (194 B.C.E.– 220 C.E.), which subsequently set up commanderies, including lelang commandery (Kor.: Nangnang, 108 B.C.E.–313 C.E.) in the former Choson territory."*{{cite book|last=Eckert|first=Carter J.|title=Korea Old and New: A History|url=|year=1991|publisher=Ilchokak Publishers|isbn=978-0962771309|page=13}}:"During this turbulent period refugee populations migrated eastward, and among them a leader by the name of Wiman emerged, who succeeded in driving King Chun of Old Choson from his throne (sometime between 194 and 180 B.C.)"*{{cite book|last=Vreeland|first=Nena|title=Area handbook for North Korea|year=1976 |publisher=American University|asin= B001IPXYN6|page=11}}:"In 194 B.C. Wiman, a tribal chieftain of Chinese origin, overthrew the Han family and established the kingdom known as Wiman Choson."*{{cite book|last=Grayson|first=James H.|title=Myths and Legends from Korea|url=https://books.google.com/?id=Ns23Q7rguGcC&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2000|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0700712410|page=40}}:"We know that this state, at whatever period it actually originated, was conquered in 195 BC by a figure called Wiman who established a new dynasty while continuing the use of the name of the state."*{{cite book|last=Grayson|first=James H.|title=Myths and Legends from Korea|url=https://books.google.com/?id=Ns23Q7rguGcC&pg=PA27#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2000|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0700712410|page=27}}:"Ancient Korean history is {{sic|comprised |hide=y|of}} the following states, Former Choson, Later Choson, Wiman Choson, the Four Commanderies, the Three Han states, Silla, Koguryo, Later Koguryo, Paekche, Later Paekche, and Parhae."
3. ^{{cite book |title=New History of Korea |author1=Lee Hyun-Hee |author2=Park Sung-Soo |author3=Yoon Nae-Hyun |publisher=Jimundang |year=2005}}