Balhae features in the Korean film Shadowless Sword, about the last prince of Balhae, and Korean TV drama Dae Jo Yeong, which aired from September 16, 2006 to December 23, 2007, about its founder.
Balhae |
Dongdan Kingdom, puppet kingdom established by the Khitan to rule the realm of the Balhae Kingdom in Eastern Manchuria
"Geum-ran" (alternately spelled Geumlan) is the character in Dae Jo Yeong (TV series), the adopted sister of Mimosa, later becoming the meritorious retainer of Balhae.
Balhae's aggressive expansion triggered frictions with Tang China, Silla of southern Korea, the Khitans, the Xi, the Göktürks, and several Mohe tribes.
Indeed, troubled by an increasingly confrontational Balhae (which had actually launched a seaborne attack against Tang in 733), in 733 the Tang emperor Xuanzong enfeoffed King Seongdeok as Military Commander of Ninghai (Ninghai junshi 寧海軍使) with orders to chastise the Balhae/Malgal state.
His excavation report for the Balhae projects won an award from the National Social Science Fund and the Guo Moruo Chinese History Prize.