Person1870 – 1917

Yi Sang-seol

Chief envoy to The Hague who founded the Seojeon Seosuk school in Jiandao and led independence groups in the Russian Far East

He memorialised against the Eulsa Treaty in 1905. In 1906 he founded the Seojeon Seosuk, a school for national education, at Longjing in northern Jiandao. In 1907, on Gojong's secret orders, he went to the Hague Peace Conference with Yi Jun and Yi Wi-jong. In 1910 he organised the Thirteen-Province Righteous Army in the Russian Maritime Province with Yu In-seok and formed the Seongmyeonghoe, which sent declarations against annexation to foreign governments. He founded the Gwoneophoe in 1911, and in 1914 set up the Korean Gwangbokgun Government with Yi Dong-hwi and others, serving as its head.

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1907Secret Emissaries to The Haguediplomat
Gojong sent Yi Sang-seol, Yi Jun and Yi Wi-jong to the Second Hague Peace Conference to declare the 1905 treaty void; Japanese obstruction and the indifference of the powers kept them out of the hall.
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1914Korean Gwangbokgun Governmentleader
Members of the Gwonophoe in Vladivostok set up the Korean Gwangbokgun Government with Yi Sang-seol as president and Yi Dong-hwi as vice-president.

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Yi Jun1859 – 1907
Envoy to The Hague who died there after being refused a seat at the conference
Yi Wi-jong1887
Envoy to The Hague who, fluent in foreign languages, gave the speech "A Plea for Korea" outside the conference
Gojong1852 – 1919
Twenty-sixth king of Joseon and first emperor of the Korean Empire
Homer B. Hulbert1863 – 1949
American teacher at Yugyeong Gongwon who wrote the Hangeul geography "Samin pilji" and, as Gojong’s secret envoy, protested the Eulsa Treaty and aided the Hague emissaries
Yi Dong-hwi1873 – 1935
Vice-president of the Korean Gwangbokgun Government and first Premier of the Provisional Government; founded the Korean Socialist Party