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Pak Yŏnghyo
Pak Yŏnghyo (; 12 June 1861 – 21 September 1939) was a Korean politician from the Joseon period, an enlightenment activist, diplomat, and Korean collaborators with Imperial Japan, pro-Japanese collaborator. He was one of the organizers of the 1884 Kapsin Coup, in which progressive political elements attempted to overthrow the conservative Korean government. He become Prince Consort Geumneung through his marriage to Princess Yeonghye, Cheoljong of Joseon, King Cheoljong's daughter. Early life and education Pak Yŏnghyo was born in Suwon, south of Seoul, Hanseong. He was the third son of Pak Won-yang and his mother was Lady Yi of the Jeonui Yi clan. By birth, he also had a distant connection with the Royal Family: his 7th great-grandfather was Pak Se-gyo (; 1611–1663), the only son of Seonjo of Joseon, King Seonjo's 5th daughter, Princess Jeongan (; 1590–1660), and Pak Mi, Prince Consort Geumyang (; 1592–1645). Pak Yŏnghyo was also an adoptive 16th great-grandson o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Prime Ministers Of The Korean Empire
This is a list of Prime Minister of Imperial Korea, prime ministers, including those of the Joseon and the Korean Empire, from when the first Korean prime minister (in the modern sense) took office in 1895, and during the early years of being Korea under Japanese rule, under Japanese rule until 1910. List of prime ministers of Korea See also * List of presidents of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea * List of prime ministers of North Korea * List of prime ministers of South Korea References {{DEFAULTSORT:Korea, List of Prime Ministers of Lists of prime ministers by country Lists of Korean people, Prime Ministers Prime ministers of Korea, id:Daftar Perdana Menteri Korea Selatan#Perdana Menteri Selama Masa Kerajaan (1895-1910) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Inseong
Queen Inseong (; 28 October 1514 – 16 January 1578), of the Bannam Park clan, was a posthumous name bestowed to the wife and queen consort of Yi Ho, King Injong. She was queen consort of Joseon from 1544 until her husband's death in 1545, after which she was honoured as Queen Dowager Gongui (). Biography Lady Park was born into the Bannam Park clan on 28 October 1514 to Park Yong and his third wife, Lady Kim of the Uiseong Kim clan. She was the only child and daughter therefore, and although her father had two sons with his concubine, her father adopted a cousin from her immediate family. Through her great-great-great-grandmother, Lady Park was also a great-great-great-grandniece of Yi Saek. The 10-year-old Lady Park became Crown Princess Consort in March 1524 when she married the 9-year-old Crown Prince Yi Ho (the future King Injong). That same year in the summer, her father died. Her mother was given the royal title of "Internal Princess Consort Munso" () and her father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heungseon Daewongun
Heungseon Daewongun (; 24 January 1821 – 22 February 1898) was the title of Yi Ha-eung, the regent of Joseon during the minority of Emperor Gojong in the 1860s. Until his death, he was a key political figure of late Joseon Korea. He was also called the Daewongun (, sometimes translated as "regent"), Guktaegong, or later Internal King Heonui, and also known to contemporary western diplomats as Prince Gung. ''Daewongun'' literally translates as "prince of the great court", a title customarily granted to the father of the reigning monarch when that father did not reign himself (usually because his son had been adopted as heir of a relative who did reign). While there had been three other Daewonguns during the Joseon dynasty, none were as dominant as Yi Ha-Eung, so the term Daewongun usually refers specifically to him. Joseon was going through changes in many aspects during this period, but was for the most part unable to keep up with the rapidly changing situation the country foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Pyongyang (1894)
The Battle of Pyongyang (; zh, 平壤之戰) was the second major land battle of the First Sino-Japanese War. It took place on 15 September 1894 in Pyongyang, Korea between the forces of Meiji government, Meiji Japan and Qing dynasty, Qing China. It is sometimes referred to archaically in Western sources as the "Battle of Ping-yang". About 20,000 Chinese troops of the Huai Army under overall command of General Ye Zhichao had arrived in Pyongyang on 4 August 1894. They had made extensive repairs to its ancient city walls, feeling itself secure in its superior numbers and in the strength of the defenses. The Huai Army had China's best troops, and they were equipped with modern weaponry, including Mauser breechloader rifles, Krupp artillery pieces, and a large quantity of ammunition. The Chinese military command intended that Pyongyang would be their headquarters in Korea. Prince Yamagata Aritomo's First Army (Japan), First Army, of the Imperial Japanese Army, converged on Pyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incheon
Incheon is a city located in northwestern South Korea, bordering Seoul and Gyeonggi Province to the east. Inhabited since the Neolithic, Incheon was home to just 4,700 people when it became an international port in 1883. As of February 2020, about 3 million people live in the city, making it South Korea's third-most-populous city after Seoul and Busan. The city's growth has been assured in modern times with the development of its port due to its natural advantages as a coastal city and its proximity to the South Korean capital. It is part of the Seoul Metropolitan Area, along with Seoul itself and Gyeonggi Province, forming the world's fourth-largest List of metropolitan areas by population, metropolitan area by population. Incheon has since led the economic development of South Korea by opening its port to the outside world, ushering in the modernization of South Korea as a center of industrialization. In 2003, the city was designated as South Korea's first free economic zon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryu Hyeok-ro
Ryu Hyeok-ro (; March 9, 1851 – May 15, 1945) was a Korean officer during the age of Late Joseon Dynasty, and Korea under Japanese rule. Life Being born as a child of a soldier of Joseon Dynasty, Ryu passed the military civil service examination in 1876. As a result of Kim Ok-gyun's actions, Ryu and his father started to assimilate to the Gaewha ideologies. In 1882, Ryu visited Japan as a Aide-de-camp to Park Yung-hyo with Bak Jungyang, Cho Byeong-jik, O Yun-jung, etc. Opposing the Qing intervention to Korea, Ryu participated in the Gapsin Coup. He played the role of reconnaissance, and communications between the members of the Coup. When the coup was suppressed by the Qing forces in Korea, Ryu fled to Japan with Kim Ok-gyun. During his years in Japan, Ryu used Japanese name, Yamada Yuichi (山田唯一). He returned to Korea in 1894 with Park Yung-hyo. In 1895, Ryu was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and posted as the first Director of Artillery of Ministry of Military, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Kyu-wan
Yi Kyuwan (; November 15, 1862 – December 15, 1946) was a politician, philosopher, and revolutionist during Korea's Joseon period. His Japanese names were Asada Ryo () and Asada Ryoichi (). In 1884, he was one of several military leaders in the brief Gapsin Coup, a Japanese-supported attempt to overthrow the royal palace in Seoul. Biography Yi was born in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, Joseon. He had ancestry in the royal family of the Joseon dynasty, descending from Prince Limyoung, the fifth son of Sejong the Great. Yi had a somewhat distant relationship with his family; his father was in the process of moving to Seoul from Guangzhou, and worked as a woodcutter, while his mother died early on in his life, which led his father to remarry. In Yi's youth, he came under the influence of reformist politicians Park Young-hyo and Seo Jae-pil, who arranged for him study in Japan in 1883. In 1884 he returned to Korea and was appointed to a junior military post. In December 1884, he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Occupation Of Gyeongbokgung Palace
The Japanese occupation of Gyeongbokgung Palace () or the Gabo Incident occurred on 23 July 1894, during the ceasefire of the Donghak Peasant Revolution and the beginning of the First Sino-Japanese War. Imperial Japanese forces led by Japanese Minister Plenipotentiary to Korea Ōtori Keisuke and Ōshima Yoshimasa occupied Gyeongbokgung palace to restore King Gojong's father Heungseon Daewongun and establish a pro-Japanese government under Kim Hong-jip and the Enlightenment Party's administration. Background On 1 June 1894, rumors reached the Donghaks that the Chinese and Japanese were on the verge of sending troops, and so the rebels agreed to a ceasefire with the Joseon government to remove any grounds for foreign intervention. On 2 June, the Japanese cabinet decided to send troops to Korea if China did the same. In May, the Chinese took steps to prepare for the mobilization of their forces in the provinces of Zhili, Shandong, and Manchuria. However, those actions were plann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kobe
Kobe ( ; , ), officially , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population of around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's List of Japanese cities by population, seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Port of Tokyo, Tokyo and Port of Yokohama, Yokohama. It is located in the Kansai region, which makes up the southern side of the main island of Honshu, Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay. It is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. The Kobe city centre is located about west of Osaka and southwest of Kyoto. The earliest written records regarding the region come from the , which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in AD 201.Ikuta Shrine official website – "History of Ikuta Shrine" (Japanese) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Korean Flags
This is a list of flags used by South Korea, North Korea, and their predecessor states. Korean reunification flag National Political flags Governmental flags North Korea South Korea Military Korea North Korea South Korea See also * List of North Korean flags * List of South Korean flags References {{DEFAULTSORT:Korean Flags Lists and galleries of flags Korea-related lists, Flags National symbols of Korea, Flags Flags of Korea, *List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fukuzawa Yukichi
was a Japanese educator, philosopher, writer, entrepreneur and samurai who founded Keio Gijuku, the newspaper ', and the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases. Fukuzawa was an early advocate for reform in Japan. His ideas about the organization of government and the structure of social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the Meiji period. He appears on the 10,000-Japanese yen banknote from 1984 to 2024, replacing Prince Shotoku. Early life Fukuzawa Yukichi was born into an impoverished low-ranking samurai (military nobility) family of the Okudaira Clan of Nakatsu Domain (present-day Ōita, Kyushu) in 1835. His family lived in Osaka, the main trading center for Japan at the time. His family was poor following the early death of his father, who was also a Confucian scholar. At the age of 5 he started Han learning, and by the time he turned 14, he had studied major writings such as the ''Analects'', ''Tao Te Ching'', ''Zuo Zhu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring Prefectures of Japan, prefectures, is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 41 million residents . Lying at the head of Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is part of the Kantō region, on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. It is Japan's economic center and the seat of the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers Tokyo's central Special wards of Tokyo, 23 special wards, which formerly made up Tokyo City; various commuter towns and suburbs in Western Tokyo, its western area; and two outlying island chains, the Tokyo Islands. Although most of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
