General who led the military coup of 1170 with Jeong Jung-bu and Yi Go and then held power
After the coup he killed his fellow plotter Yi Go and held power through the Jungbang, marrying his daughter to the crown prince. In 1174 he crushed a rising of monks from Gwibeopsa and other doctrinal temples in Gaegyeong, and at the end of that year, as Jo Wi-chong’s revolt raged, he was killed by Jeong Jung-bu’s son Jeong Gyun.
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.
Against the military regime, Kim Bo-dang rose in the northeast in 1173 to restore Uijong, and Jo Wi-chong, governor of Seogyeong, rose in 1174; both were suppressed.
Eighteenth king of Goryeo, deposed by the military coup of 1170 and killed in 1173
General who led the military coup of 1170 and ruled through the Jungbang until killed by Gyeong Dae-seung
Nineteenth king of Goryeo, enthroned by the generals; his reign saw military infighting and uprisings until Choe Chung-heon deposed him
General who killed Jeong Jung-bu in 1179 and took power, first creating the private guard Dobang
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
From Wanggeom-seong of Gojoseon to the inter-Korean summits — capital of Goguryeo, Western Capital of Goryeo, the great city on the Taedong
From Wang Geon, lord of Songak, to the Kaesong Industrial Complex — Gaegyeong, Goryeo’s capital for five centuries, and home of the Song merchants