King Myeongjong

Where they went

5 related events

1. 1
   1170Military Coup of 1170related figure

   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.

2. 2
   1176 – 1177Uprising of Mangi and Mangsoimonarch

   Mangi and Mangsoi of Myeonghak-so in Gongju rose up against the discrimination and exactions suffered by "so" districts; the government tried to placate them by upgrading the district to a county.

3. 3
   1193 – 1194Uprising of Kim Sa-mi and Hyo-simmonarch

   Kim Sa-mi of Unmun (Cheongdo) and Hyo-sim of Chojeon (Ulsan) joined forces in Gyeongsang, in the largest peasant uprising of the military era.

4. 4
   1193Yi Gyu-bo’s Lay of King Dongmyeongmonarch

   Yi Gyu-bo retold the story of King Dongmyeong (Jumong), founder of Goguryeo, as a long narrative poem.

5. 5
   1196 – 1258Choe Chung-heon and the Choe Military Regimemonarch

   Choe Chung-heon killed Yi Ui-min and seized power, founding a Choe family regime that lasted four generations and some sixty years, with the Directorate of Decree Enforcement as its supreme organ.

People who appear alongside

• Jeong Jung-bu1106 – 1179

  General who led the military coup of 1170 and ruled through the Jungbang until killed by Gyeong Dae-seung

• Yi Ui-bang1174

  General who led the military coup of 1170 with Jeong Jung-bu and Yi Go and then held power

• King Uijong1127 – 1173

  Eighteenth king of Goryeo, deposed by the military coup of 1170 and killed in 1173

• Gyeong Dae-seung1154 – 1183

  General who killed Jeong Jung-bu in 1179 and took power, first creating the private guard Dobang

• Mangi

  Resident of Myeonghak-so in Gongju who rose up with his brother Mangsoi in 1176

• Mangsoi

  Resident of Myeonghak-so who rose up with his brother Mangi

• Kim Sa-mi1194

  Leader of the 1193 peasant uprising at Unmun (Cheongdo), allied with Hyo-sim of Chojeon

• Hyo-sim

  Leader of the 1193 peasant uprising at Chojeon (Ulsan), allied with Kim Sa-mi of Unmun

Themes this person appears in

• Song, Ming and Samurai JapanAD 960 – 1500

  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

• Writing Korean HistoryAD 375 – 1931

  From the Seogi, Guksa and Sinjip to the Joseon sanggosa — history-writing as royal display, Confucian record, assertion of independence and nationalist scholarship

• GaeseongAD 901 – 2003

  From Wang Geon, lord of Songak, to the Kaesong Industrial Complex — Gaegyeong, Goryeo’s capital for five centuries, and home of the Song merchants

• GongjuAD 475 – 1894

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

• JinjuAD 685 – 1923

  Centre of western Gyeongsang — site of the sieges of Jinju, the 1862 peasant uprising and the butchers’ equality movement