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Person1863 – 1916

Na Cheol

Also called: Na In-yeong

Plotted with O Gi-ho to kill the five ministers who signed the Eulsa Treaty, and in 1909 founded Daejonggyo, a religion honouring Dangun

In 1907 he formed the Jasinhoe with O Gi-ho and others to assassinate the five ministers who had signed the Eulsa Treaty, but the attempt failed and he was exiled. In 1909 he founded a religion honouring Dangun, renamed Daejonggyo the next year, which became the base of armed independence groups in Manchuria such as the Junggwangdan and the Northern Military Administration. As Japanese repression grew, he took his own life at the Samseongsa shrine on Mount Guwol in 1916.

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2 related events

  1. 1
    1905Eulsa Treatyrelated figure

    On 17 November 1905, with troops surrounding Gyeongungung, Itō Hirobumi forced a treaty stripping the Korean Empire of its diplomatic rights; a Japanese Residency-General was set up and soon meddled in domestic affairs too.

  2. 2
    1911 – 1945National Movements of the Religious Communitiesrelated figure

    Cheondogyo, Daejonggyo, Buddhists, Catholics, Won Buddhism and Protestants joined the national movement through enlightenment campaigns, armed struggle, campaigns to reform daily life and refusal of Shinto shrine worship.

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    From Hanseong Baekje to the June Democratic Struggle — the Han River land every kingdom fought for, and Joseon’s capital for five centuries