Kim Yu-sin

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1. 1
   AD 576Hwarang Made a State Institution; Five Precepts for Secular Liferelated figure

   King Jinheung abolished the wonhwa and made the hwarang a state institution; later the monk Wongwang gave the hwarang the Five Precepts for Secular Life.

2. 2
   AD 647Bidam’s Rebellioncommander

   The chief minister Bidam rebelled, claiming a queen could not rule, and was crushed by Kim Yu-sin and Kim Chun-chu.

3. 3
   AD 654Accession of King Muyeolrelated figure

   On Queen Jindeok’s death Kim Chun-chu took the throne — the first king from the jingol rank after the seonggol line died out.

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   AD 660Battle of Hwangsanbeolcommander

   Gyebaek met Kim Yu-sin’s 50,000 Silla troops with 5,000 picked men, won four clashes and finally fell.

5. AD 660Fall of Baekjecommander

   Allied Silla and Tang forces took the capital Sabi, and King Uija surrendered, ending Baekje.

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   AD 670 – AD 676Silla–Tang War and Unificationrelated figure

   Silla drove out the Tang armies that sought to rule the peninsula and unified the land south of a line from the Taedong River to Wonsan Bay.

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   AD 700Tomb of Kim Yu-sin, Gyeongjurelated figure

   A Unified Silla tomb said to be Kim Yu-sin’s. Its retaining stones are carved with the twelve zodiac guardians in civilian dress holding weapons.

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• King Muyeol (Kim Chun-chu)AD 603 – AD 661

  Twenty-ninth king of Silla, who forged the Tang alliance, became the first jingol king and conquered Baekje

• Queen JindeokAD 654

  Twenty-eighth ruler and last "hallowed-bone" monarch of Silla, enthroned during Bidam’s revolt, under whom the Silla–Tang alliance was made and the Jipsabu set up

• King JinheungAD 534 – AD 576

  Twenty-fourth king of Silla, who took the Han River basin and Daegaya, raised border steles and organized the hwarang

• Wongwang

  Silla monk who, back from Sui China, gave Gwisan and Chuhang the Five Precepts for Secular Life and drafted the plea for Sui troops

• Kim Dae-mun

  True-bone scholar under King Seongdeok who recorded Silla traditions in the Hwarang segi, Goseungjeon and Hansangi

• Sadaham

  Silla hwarang who was first through the gate in the conquest of Daegaya in 562

• BidamAD 647

  Silla chief minister whose revolt against the queen was crushed by Kim Yu-sin

• Queen SeondeokAD 647

  Twenty-seventh ruler and Silla's first queen, under whom Cheomseongdae and the nine-storey pagoda of Hwangnyongsa were built

Themes this person appears in

• Wars of Korean UnificationAD 598 – AD 676

  From Goguryeo's wars with Sui and Tang to Silla's unification — eighty years of East Asian war on the peninsula

• Sui, Tang and the East Asian WorldAD 317 – AD 979

  From the divided Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Gupta age through the Sui and Tang empires to the founding of the Song — the age when an East Asian world sharing law codes, Buddhism, Confucianism and Chinese characters took shape, and Korea and Japan built their states on its model

• Changes in Tombs2000 BC – 1374

  From dolmens to the tomb of King Gongmin — stone-mound, stone-mound wooden-chamber, stone-chamber and brick tombs, and how burial changed by kingdom and age

• GongjuAD 475 – 1894

  From Ungjin, Baekje’s second capital, to Ugeumchi — the town on the Geum River that became the heart of Chungcheong

• Buyeo2000 BC – 1376

  From the Songguk-ri village to Sabi, Baekje’s last capital — the Geum River town where Baekje culture bloomed and fell

• Gyeongju57 BC – 1860

  Silla’s capital for a thousand years — tombs, pagodas, temples and bells from every age of Silla, and the birthplace of Donghak