Yeongjo

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   1721 – 1722Sinim Purgesrelated figure

   Under King Gyeongjong, the Noron and Soron clashed over naming his brother (the future Yeongjo) heir and regent; the Soron drove out and executed the four Noron ministers and others.

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   1728Yi In-jwa’s Rebellionmonarch

   Hard-line Soron and some Southerners, claiming Yeongjo had a hand in Gyeongjong’s death, rose to deny his legitimacy; they seized Cheongju but were soon crushed (the Musin revolt).

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   1734Jeong Seon’s Complete View of the Diamond Mountainsmonarch

   Jeong Seon gathered the peaks of the Inner Diamond Mountains into one circular composition — a true-view landscape with sharp lines for rock and soft ink dots for earthen hills.

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   1742Tangpyeong steleleader

   Yeongjo inscribed his policy of appointing officials impartially, regardless of faction, on a stele at the royal academy.

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   1746Sok daejeon compiledleader

   Yeongjo issued the Sok daejeon, a supplement gathering the laws enacted since the Gyeongguk daejeon; it was followed by Jeongjo’s Daejeon tongpyeon and the Daejeon hoetong of 1865.

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   1750Equalised service taxleader

   The annual military cloth tax on commoner men was halved from two bolts to one, with the shortfall covered by new levies on fisheries, salt and land.

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   1751Jeong Seon’s Inwang jesaekdomonarch

   Jeong Seon painted Mount Inwang as the mist lifts after rain — a masterpiece of “true-view” landscape painting drawn from Korea’s own scenery.

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   1755Naju Wall-Poster Incidentmonarch

   The hard-line Soron official Yun Ji was caught posting writings that slandered the throne in Naju; the affair broke the Soron faction (Eulhae purge).

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   1762Death of Crown Prince Sadomonarch

   Yeongjo deposed the crown prince and locked him in a rice chest in front of Munjeongjeon Hall at Changgyeonggung; Prince Sado died eight days later.

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• Gyeongjong1688 – 1724

  Twentieth king of Joseon, son of Sukjong and Royal Consort Jang, backed by the Soron; he died after four years and was succeeded by his half-brother Yeongjo

• Jeong Seon (Gyeomjae)1676 – 1759

  Painter who pioneered “true-view” landscapes of Korea’s own scenery; his masterpieces include Inwang jesaekdo and Geumgang jeondo

• Yi In-jwa1728

  Leader of the 1728 rebellion of hard-line Soron and Southerners who denied Yeongjo’s legitimacy; he took Cheongju before being defeated

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  Crown Prince Sado1735 – 1762

  Yeongjo's son and Jeongjo's father, who died locked in a rice chest

Themes this person appears in

• 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

• Changes in TaxationAD 755 – 1894

  From land tax, tribute and labour to cash taxes in the Gabo Reform — burdens shifting from people and households to land

• Reformation and Absolutism1517 – 1796

  From Luther’s Ninety-five Theses to Catherine the Great — the wars of religion of a divided Christendom ended at Westphalia, and absolute monarchs armed with divine right, standing armies, bureaucracies and mercantilism, followed by the enlightened despots of eastern Europe, contended for the balance of power among sovereign states

• The Course of Korean PaintingAD 450 – 1897

  From Goguryeo tomb murals to Jang Seung-eop — daily life and guardian deities, Goryeo Buddhist painting, early Joseon landscapes, true-view landscapes and genre painting, literati and folk painting

• Suwon1601 – 1919

  From Jeongjo’s new city of Hwaseong to the tragedy of Jeam-ri — where a king’s filial devotion and reform politics were built into stone walls

• Cheongjuc. 700,000 years ago – 1728

  From the Heungsu child of Durubong Cave to the Jikji — Silla’s secondary capital Seowon, where the oldest surviving metal-type book was printed