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Tibet is not geographical concept. It is also not possible to ἀx historical territorial boundary. It is one of the reconstruction of image by Western. The start of reconstruction is Lost Horizon by James Hilton in 1933. Shanggri-La in this novel is the first symbol of ‘the Empire of Myth, Tibet’. It means a paradise was lost by modernized western. The second symbol is Dalai Lama, an exile from China in 1950. He symbolized the Savior can separate the Tibet from China. The move of Seven Years in Tibet makes him as a Savior decisively. The last one of symbol of ‘Tibet’ is China. China take a place as a symmetry axis of good. IT means an axis of evil. China made Tibet as a losted paradise. ‘The Empire of Myth, Tibet’ constitute of three symbols, Shanggri-La, Dalai Lama, and China, was completed in the exile of Dalai Lama in 1959.The exile of Dalai Lama in 1959 was the start point reproduction of the Tibet myth by western in Korea. Many popular travellers, novelists, religious persons and scholars have reproduce the western Tibet myth in Korea from 1959. Now Korean historical writers of Tibet is confronted with need of reconstruction of the western system of Tibet myth. Making history of Tibet is the start point. It makes us faced up with the ideology of hegemony groups in Korean popular society.