History Lives - Baekje Edition: Episode 16: The People Who Read the Heavens and Saved Lives - Baekje's Calendar Doctor and Medical Doctor

1. Baekje had state-certified specialist posts: the calendar doctor, who calculated the stars to make calendars, and the medical doctor, who treated the sick.
2. In 553, medical doctor Wang Yureungta and others were dispatched, in 554 a calendar doctor was sent to Japan, and in 602 the monk Gwalleuk crossed over carrying a calendar book.
3. These records are preserved in the Nihon Shoki, and while the epitaph of Muryeongwangneung matches the Wonga calendar, lending credibility, some scholars urge caution over the possibility of embellishment.

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