Gwanghaegun

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6 related events

1. 1
   1592King Seonjo Flees Northparticipant

   At news of the defeat at Chungju, King Seonjo left Hanyang in the rain before dawn on the 30th. He went by Gaeseong and Pyongyang to Uiju on the Yalu and asked Ming for help.

2. 2
   1608Daedong lawmonarch

   Tribute in local goods was replaced by a tax in rice levied on land; begun in Gyeonggi, it took a century to cover the whole country.

3. 3
   1609Treaty of Giyumonarch

   After the Imjin War Joseon reopened trade with Japan through a treaty with Tsushima, opening only the port of Busan and limiting trade ships to twenty a year.

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   1610Dongui bogam completedmonarch

   Heo Jun completed the 25-volume medical encyclopedia Dongui bogam, drawing on Korean herbs and remedies; it is on UNESCO’s Memory of the World register.

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   1619Gwanghaegun’s Neutral Diplomacymonarch

   At Ming request Joseon sent an army under Gang Hong-rip against the Later Jin; when the Ming were routed at Sarhu, Gang surrendered, and Gwanghaegun kept Joseon neutral between Ming and Jurchens.

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   1623Injo Restorationrelated figure

   The Westerner faction deposed Gwanghaegun and enthroned Prince Neungyang as King Injo; the new pro-Ming stance soured relations with the Later Jin.

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People who appear alongside

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  King Seonjo1552 – 1608

  Fourteenth king of Joseon; fled to Uiju and asked Ming for help

• Ryu Seong-ryong1542 – 1607

  Chief State Councillor who directed the war effort during the Imjin War, proposed the Hullyeon Dogam, and wrote the Jingbirok

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  Yi Won-ik1547 – 1634

  Chief state councillor who proposed the Daedong tax reform

• Kim Yuk1580 – 1658

  Chief State Councillor under Hyojong who extended the Uniform Land Tax Law and urged adoption of the Shixian calendar and minting of coins

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  Heo Jun1539 – 1615

  Royal physician who compiled the Dongui bogam

• Gang Hong-rip1560 – 1627

  Commander of the Joseon army sent at Ming request against the Later Jin in 1619, who surrendered to the Jurchens after the defeat at Sarhu

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  Injo1595 – 1649

  Sixteenth king of Joseon, enthroned by coup; endured two Manchu invasions and surrendered at Samjeondo

• Choe Myeong-gil1586 – 1647

  Westerner who helped stage the Injo Restoration and led the case for making peace with Qing in the Second Manchu Invasion; also versed in Yangming learning

Themes this person appears in

• Factional Politics in Joseon1498 – 1863

  From the literati purges to in-law government — how Sarim factions moved from coexistence and checks to purges and one-faction rule, then through Tangpyeong to the dominance of a few clans

• Changes in TaxationAD 755 – 1894

  From land tax, tribute and labour to cash taxes in the Gabo Reform — burdens shifting from people and households to land

• Ming, Qing and Edo Japan1500 – 1800

  The age when the Ming, shaken by northern raiders, southern pirates and the silver economy, fell to Li Zicheng’s rebels, and the Manchu Qing reached its greatest extent and prosperity under Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong — as Japan was unified out of the Warring States into the Edo shogunate’s bakuhan order and closed country, and Joseon, after two great wars, met its neighbours through embassies to Edo and the Northern Learning

• Printing and Documentary HeritageAD 751 – 2011

  From the Dharani Sutra to the May 18 archives — woodblock and metal-type printing, and the records inscribed on the Memory of the World

• Busan1443 – 1979

  Port of the Japan House and of the 1876 opening — Korea’s gateway to Japan, and wartime capital in the Korean War