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Jeong Ji-sang

Poet-official from Seogyeong who backed Myocheong and was executed in Gaegyeong when the revolt broke out

Considered the finest poet of his day, he is best known for "Parting" (Songin), a poem of farewell. A native of Seogyeong, he joined Myocheong in invoking geomancy to urge moving the capital to Seogyeong and proclaiming an emperor. When Myocheong rebelled in 1135, Kim Bu-sik had him executed in Gaegyeong first.

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    Myocheong and Jeong Ji-sang of the Western Capital urged moving the capital there, proclaiming an emperor and attacking Jin; rebuffed, they rebelled in Seogyeong and were crushed within a year by government forces under Kim Bu-sik.

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  • Myocheong1135

    Monk of Seogyeong who urged moving the capital there, proclaiming an emperor and attacking Jin, and rebelled in 1135

  • Kim Bu-sik1075 – 1151

    Confucian aristocrat of Gaegyeong who crushed Myocheong’s revolt and compiled the Samguk sagi in 1145

  • King Injong1109 – 1146

    Seventeenth king of Goryeo, who faced the revolts of Yi Ja-gyeom and Myocheong and commissioned the Samguk sagi

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    The age when the civil-minded Song bought peace from Liao, Western Xia and Jin while the lower Yangtze boomed and Neo-Confucianism took shape, and the Ming, having driven out the Yuan, rebuilt the East Asian order through imperial autocracy, the sea ban and tribute — as Japan passed through the Kamakura and Muromachi warrior governments into the Warring States era, and Korea from Goryeo to Joseon

  • Pyongyang194 BC – 2007

    From Wanggeom-seong of Gojoseon to the inter-Korean summits — capital of Goguryeo, Western Capital of Goryeo, the great city on the Taedong