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An ancient Persian epic poem, the Kushnameh, contains detailed descriptions of Silla.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.mei.edu/content/1500-years-contact-between-korea-and-middle-east|title=1,500 Years of Contact between Korea and the Middle East|work=Middle East Institute|access-date=2017-04-13|language=en|archive-date=2017-03-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319190534/http://www.mei.edu/content/1500-years-contact-between-korea-and-middle-east|url-status=live}}</ref> Former South Korean president [[Park Geun-hye]] said during a festival celebrating Iran and Korea's 1,500 years of shared cultural ties, "The Kushnameh, that tells of a Persian prince who went to Silla in the seventh century and got married with a Korean princess, thus forming a royal marriage.”<ref name="Cultural ties put Iran, S Korea closer than ever for cooperation - Tehran Times">{{Cite news|url=http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/301161/Cultural-ties-put-Iran-S-Korea-closer-than-ever-for-cooperation|title=Cultural ties put Iran, S Korea closer than ever for cooperation|date=2016-05-05|work=Tehran Times|access-date=2017-04-13|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413071519/http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/301161/Cultural-ties-put-Iran-S-Korea-closer-than-ever-for-cooperation|url-status=live}}</ref>

 

 

Silla was also a place of interest by the Japanese as the [[Nihon Shoki]] and the [[Kojiki]] both claim that the Japanese god, [[Susanoo]] (brother of [[Amaterasu]]) first emerged from the kingdom of Silla after being banished from the heavens, but soon left the peninsula for the [[Japanese archipelago]] after being dissatisfied with the land. He was also used as a means of spreading propaganda through [[Nissen dōsoron]] that Susanoo once reigned over Silla and that the modern Koreans are his descendants (in turn the Japanese), ultimately using him to justify the [[Japanese occupation of Korea]].