기자조선
Historian Kim Jung-bae claims that the association between Jizi and Joseon is wrong. He believed that the existence of Gija Joseon as a state established by Jizi was fabricated during Han Dynasty. He further claims that the "Bamboo Annals", and Confucius's "Analects", which was the earliest extant text that referred to Jizi, did not say anything about his going to Gojoseon. Similarly, the "Records of the Grand Historian", written soon after the conquest of Wiman Joseon by Han, made no reference to Joseon in its discussions about Jizi and no reference to Jizi in its discussions about Joseon.