# Joseon Annals: King's Choice — Rule 500 years as 27 kings

> Rule 500 years as 27 kings (iPhone/iPad app by Jaehyuk Ko.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/joseon-annals-kings-choice/id6810510913 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jaehyuk Ko](https://appshunter.io/developer/1502522891)
- Category: Games, Family, Simulation
- Price: $3.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 13 MB
- Languages: Korean
- Released: 2026-09-16
- Data updated: 2026-10-31

## What is Joseon Annals?

Your child does not memorize history here. They govern.

■ BECOME THE KING OF JOSEON

Rule five hundred years as 27 kings, from Taejo who founded the dynasty in 1392
to Sunjong, its last emperor. Name the new country. Choose where the capital
will stand. Decide whether the new letters a king invented should be given to
every commoner, over the objections of his own court.

Every one of these events is drawn from the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty,
the day-by-day record its court historians kept for five centuries.


■ THEN THE HISTORIAN COMES

After you choose, the court historian takes up his brush:

  "In the actual annals, it is written thus."

Match what really happened and you earn a fragment of the record.
Choose differently and you see the Joseon that might have been.

History is never a gate your child has to pass. It is the reward for playing.


■ A COUNTRY THAT CARRIES OVER

Four measures — People, Treasury, Defense, Culture — pass to the next king
exactly as you leave them. A prosperous people pay taxes; a change of rulers
scatters some of what the last reign built. Your child watches one king inherit
another king's ruin, and feels why history connects, without being told.


■ WHAT REMAINS

At the end of 27 reigns, every decision your child made has been written down
in the historian's voice — their own volume of annals, which they can save
as a picture.


■ WHAT IS INSIDE

· 27 kings, Taejo through Sunjong
· 97 events, every one from the historical record
· 73 figures to collect — Jang Yeong-sil, Yi Sun-sin, Heo Jun, Jeong Yak-yong and more
· 97 record fragments
· 179 word explanations, each in one plain sentence
· Read-aloud, for readers still working on longer text
· Korean and English


■ FOR PARENTS

· No ads
· No in-app purchases
· No account, no sign-up
· Works entirely offline
· Collects no personal data whatsoever
· No game over — your child can choose freely without fear of failing

Written at an elementary grades 3–6 reading level.


■ ON THE HISTORY

Every sentence is newly written from the factual record. Only mainstream
scholarship is included. There are no graphic scenes and no disparagement of
any nation or people. Where historians disagree about a figure, this game sets
out what they did and what followed, and leaves the judgment to your child.

This is an independent game, not affiliated with any government institution.

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## Is Joseon Annals safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Joseon Annals.

## Is Joseon Annals legit?

Joseon Annals: King's Choice appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Joseon Annals is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-27

All 97 events now have a picture.
After you choose, it opens with the historian's record to show what really happened.

■ New

· Classroom mode — open it from Settings. Put one event on the classroom screen, count the hands for each choice, then open the Annals. Start from any of the 97 events; nothing is added to the saved record.
· Reign review — when a reign ends, each event is listed side by side: the path you chose, and the path the Annals record.
· The historian's verdict — reigns are now judged Peace (泰), Plenty (豊), Steady (安) or Upheaval (激) instead of letter grades. There are no wrong answers here, so it should not look like a report card.
· Parent summary — "Ask at dinner tonight" (one recent decision and one question to talk about) and a king-by-king list of the events decided so far
· The magpie — in Korean folk painting the tiger is never drawn alone, so Beomi now has his magpie. When you earn a record, the magpie flies in first with the news.

■ Easier to read

· Each event carries a small mark for the kind of matter it is — war, taxes, learning, the people and twelve more
· Long passages are broken up, and the historian's record leads with its conclusion
· How far the people, treasury, defense and culture moved is shown as a bar
· A slim band shows where you stand in the 519 years, and a small map marks the place when it matters
· All twenty-seven kings carry their own seal in the codex, and each king is newly drawn on the coronation screen
· Beomi's verdict at the end of a reign now stands large in the middle of the screen

■ Fixed

· The app quit when saving a scroll picture to Photos by long-pressing it
· Going back from "The history I missed" could leave you stuck
· Beomi's speech bubble could cover the source line or follow you to the next screen
· The tutorial's Next button moved up and down from page to page
· Event cards were cramped on iPad in landscape

■ Also

· With Reduce Motion on, animations and effects are toned down
· Korean now appears in the app's listed languages

Every event was rewritten from facts recorded in the Annals.
No ads, no purchases, no accounts.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-17

No release notes.

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