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Jeong Yeo-rip

Easterner from Jeonju who formed the Daedonggye; accused of treason, he killed himself, setting off the purge of 1589

A student of Yi I and Seong Hon, he was at first close to the Westerners, but after Yi I died he went over to the Easterners and earned the Westerners' enmity. Leaving office, he went home to Jeonju and kept a study at Jukdo in Jinan. He is said to have declared that the realm is public property with no fixed master. After his death the Westerner Jeong Cheol ran the inquiry, and the Easterners suffered heavily.

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1589 – 1591Jeong Yeo-rip Treason Case and the Gichuk Purgerelated figure
Accused of plotting rebellion, the Easterner Jeong Yeo-rip took his own life, and the purge led by the Westerner Jeong Cheol struck down some thousand Easterners.

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Jeong Cheol (Songgang)1536 – 1593
Master of gasa verse who wrote the Gwandong byeolgok and Samiingok; as a Westerner he ran the Jeong Yeo-rip treason inquiry

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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
JeonjuAD 685 – 1894
From Wansanju, capital of Later Baekje, to the ancestral seat of the Joseon royal house — where the Annals were saved and the Donghak army took the fortress