If you accept this task, there will be no turning back. If you let impatience get control of you as it did your father, your kind will forever be cursed as untrustworthy and no man or animal shall think of you as a friend.

The powers I give you shall be yours until Choson becomes a sovereign kingdom and its people become masters of their own destiny. When they achieve their goal my old friend, you shall achieve yours. I cannot tell you how long that will take, that is up to them.

Spreading his arms outward toward the valleys below, he added, “All they need is here.”

Tangun gave him his name, the Tiger of Shinshi , and set forth the tasks he has been fulfilling for more than three-thousand years. Had the ancient tiger known what the future held for him and the Korean people, he might not have been so eager to accept the challenge. But accept it he did and he has kept his word to this day.

He is the Tiger of Shinshi, the Warden of Three Thousand Li, Defender of Choson, and Guardian of the Golden Thread. He is the strength and cunning the Korean people have used to defend their homeland. He protects and keeps alive the long and ancient history of Korea and his teachings pass this legacy to each new generation.

He is the comforter who brings peace to the spirits of Korea’s ancestors and who safeguards and protects the Golden Thread, that which ties and binds the Korean people together throughout time, a thread that must never be broken.