Yu Gil-jun

Where they went

4 related events

1. 1
   1870 – 1879Rise of Enlightenment Thoughtparticipant

   Park Gyu-su, O Gyeong-seok, Yu Hong-gi and others, heirs of the Northern Learning school who absorbed knowledge of the West reaching Korea through Qing, argued for opening the country and making it rich and strong. Their students Kim Ok-gyun, Park Yeong-hyo, Yu Gil-jun and others became the Enlightenment Party.

2. 2
   1881Inspection Mission to Japanparticipant

   Park Jeong-yang, Eo Yun-jung, Hong Yeong-sik and others travelled secretly to Japan to study its government and industry; Yu Gil-jun stayed on to study.

3. 3
   1885 – 1887Geomundo Incidentrelated figure

   Claiming to block Russia’s southward advance, the Royal Navy occupied the island of Geomundo without Korea’s consent, leaving after two years through Qing mediation.

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   1894 – 1896Gabo Reformparticipant

   A deliberative council abolished the class system and the civil service exam and overhauled government; the cabinet of Kim Hong-jip led it under Japanese pressure.

People who appear alongside

• Park Yeong-hyo1861 – 1939

  Radical reformer and son-in-law of King Cheoljong who led the Gapsin Coup with Kim Ok-gyun and headed a coalition cabinet with Kim Hong-jip in the second Gabo Reform

• Hong Yeong-sik1855 – 1884

  Radical reformer and head of the Post Office, at whose opening banquet the Gapsin Coup began; he was killed when the coup failed

• Park Gyu-su1807 – 1877

  Grandson of Park Ji-won; as governor of Pyeongan he burned the General Sherman, later urged opening to trade and taught the reformers

• O Gyeong-seok1831 – 1879

  Interpreter who brought back from Qing books on Western affairs such as the Haiguo tuzhi and Yinghuan zhilüe, a pioneer of enlightenment thought

• Yu Hong-gi1831

  Daechi. A chungin physician who studied enlightenment ideas with O Gyeong-seok and guided young reformers such as Kim Ok-gyun, earning the name "prime minister in plain clothes"

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  Kim Ok-gyun1851 – 1894

  Radical reformer who led the 1884 coup, fled to Japan and was assassinated in Shanghai

• Park Jeong-yang1841 – 1905

  Member of the 1881 inspection mission to Japan and first minister to the US; attended the 1898 joint assembly as acting prime minister

• Kim Hong-jip1842 – 1896

  Prime minister who led the Gabo Reform; killed by a crowd after the king fled to the Russian legation

Themes this person appears in

• 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

• Central Government Through the AgesAD 250 – 1899

  From the noble councils of the Three Kingdoms to the State Council, the Border Defense Council and the Gabo cabinet — how central government shifted between aristocratic consensus and royal power

• The Opening of East Asia1839 – 1901

  From the Opium War to the Boxer Protocol — sixty years in which China, Japan and Korea, forced open by Western gunboats, each tried to reform and went separate ways

• Imperialism and the Partition of the World1839 – 1914

  From the Tanzimat to Sarajevo — seventy-five years in which the powers carved up West Asia, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Pacific, and the peoples there answered with reform and resistance