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Yi Man-son

Gyeongsang Confucian scholar who headed the 1881 Yeongnam Memorial of Ten Thousand against A Strategy for Korea

In 1880 Kim Hong-jip, returning from the second mission to Japan, brought back Huang Zunxian's Strategy for Korea, which advised friendship with China and alliance with Japan and the United States to check Russia. In 1881 he led a memorial signed by some ten thousand Yeongnam scholars that opposed ties with America and demanded Kim Hong-jip's punishment. The government exiled him, and the movement to defend orthodoxy and reject heterodoxy spread nationwide.

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    1881Yeongnam Memorial of Ten Thousandleader

    As A Strategy for Korea circulated, more than ten thousand Yeongnam Confucian scholars led by Yi Man-son petitioned against the reforms and relations with America.

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