This report compiles the iron manufacturing sites discovered across different historical periods on the Korean Peninsula, with a total count of 288 sites. Among these, there were 316 smelting furnaces, 190 smithing furnaces, 71 melting furnaces, and 1 parching furnace. In terms of historical epochs, 161 sites date back to the Proto-Three Kingdoms era and the Three Kingdoms era, 37 are from the Unified Silla/Goryeo era, and 86 belong to the Joseon era.
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