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Kim Bu-sik

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

Holding to Confucian views of serving the great power, he opposed Myocheong's calls to move the capital to Seogyeong, proclaim an emperor and attack Jin; when Myocheong rebelled in 1135, he led the government army and took Seogyeong the next year. The Samguk sagi, compiled by order of King Injong, is a history in the annals-and-biographies format and the oldest surviving Korean history. It is regarded as written from a rational Confucian standpoint with a strong sense of Silla as Goryeo's predecessor.

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  1. 1
    1135 – 1136Myocheong’s Movement to Move the Capital to Seogyeongcommander

    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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    1145Kim Bu-sik Compiles the Samguk sagiauthor

    By order of King Injong, Kim Bu-sik and others compiled the Samguk sagi, a 50-volume annals-and-biographies history of Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla and the oldest surviving Korean history.

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

  • Jeong Ji-sang1135

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

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