The work offered to the reader is a continuation of the publication of the earliest surviving monument of Korean historiography - Samguk sagi (Samkuk sagi, “Historical Records of Three States”), compiled and published in 1145 by the court historiographer of the Goryeo state, Kim Busik. Thirty years have passed since the publication in 1959 of the first volume of the Russian edition of this monument in the series “Monuments of Literature of the Peoples of the East” - a period that was marked by a significant increase in scientific research by Soviet scientists in the field of Korean studies in general and the history of early Korea in particular. Not only such generalizing works as the two-volume collective “History of Korea” appeared, but also special monographs and studies devoted to important problems of the early history of Korea - issues of ethnogenesis and ethnic history of the Korean people (R.Sh. Dzharylgasinova and Yu.V. Ionova), the role of archaeological sources for understanding the ancient and ancient history of Korea (academician A.P. Okladnikov, Yu.M. Butin, M.V. Vorobyov, etc.), the problems of mythology and spiritual culture of early Korea (L.R. Kontsevich, M. I. Nikitina and A.F. Trotsevich), as well as art history (O.N. Glukhareva), etc. I would like to think that the beginning of publication in Russian of the main written source on the early history of Korea - the Samguk sagi of Kim Busik - to some extent contributed to the emergence of interest and attention to the problems of the history of Korea of this period. (File without tables and original text) p>