PersonAD 663

Boksin

Baekje royal who led the restoration movement and brought Prince Buyeo Pung back from Wa

Said to be a nephew of King Mu, he raised a restoration army at Juryu Fortress with the monk Dochim after Baekje fell in 660. The movement once recovered some two hundred fortresses and besieged the Tang garrison in Sabi. But in a struggle for power he killed Dochim, and in 663 he was himself killed by Buyeo Pung. Split at the top, the movement collapsed with the defeat at Baekgang that same year.

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AD 660 – AD 663Baekje Restoration Movementleader
Boksin, Dochim and Heukchi Sangji rose at Juryu and Imjon fortresses, crowned Prince Buyeo Pung, recalled from Wa, and fought the Silla–Tang allies.

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Heukchi SangjiAD 630 – AD 689
Baekje general who led restoration forces at Imjon Fortress before surrendering to Tang
Buyeo Pung
Son of King Uija, brought back from Wa as king by the Baekje restoration forces, who fled to Goguryeo after the defeat at Baekgang
DochimAD 661
Baekje monk who raised the Baekje restoration movement at Juryuseong with Boksin, who later killed him

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Wars of Korean UnificationAD 598 – AD 676
From Goguryeo's wars with Sui and Tang to Silla's unification — eighty years of East Asian war on the peninsula
Buyeo2000 BC – 1376
From the Songguk-ri village to Sabi, Baekje’s last capital — the Geum River town where Baekje culture bloomed and fell