General who led the military coup of 1170 and ruled through the Jungbang until killed by Gyeong Dae-seung
He resented the contempt shown to military officers, such as the civil official Kim Don-jung burning his beard. In 1170 at Bohyeonwon he and his allies slaughtered civil officials, drove out Uijong and enthroned Myeongjong. He held power through the Jungbang, the council of generals, until the young general Gyeong Dae-seung killed him in 1179.
Generals including Jeong Jung-bu, Yi Ui-bang and Yi Go, long slighted by civil officials, struck at Bohyeonwon, killing civil officials and deposing King Uijong; military regimes ruled for the next century.
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General who led the military coup of 1170 with Jeong Jung-bu and Yi Go and then held power
Eighteenth king of Goryeo, deposed by the military coup of 1170 and killed in 1173
Nineteenth king of Goryeo, enthroned by the generals; his reign saw military infighting and uprisings until Choe Chung-heon deposed him
General who killed Jeong Jung-bu in 1179 and took power, first creating the private guard Dobang
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
From Wang Geon, lord of Songak, to the Kaesong Industrial Complex — Gaegyeong, Goryeo’s capital for five centuries, and home of the Song merchants