General who joined Yi Ja-gyeom’s revolt, then turned on him at the king’s urging
A general who won distinction in Yun Gwan's Jurchen campaign. In 1126 he joined Yi Ja-gyeom in burning the palace and threatening Injong, but after falling out with Yi he accepted the king's overtures and arrested him. He was later impeached and sent into exile.
Yi Ja-gyeom, King Injong’s maternal grandfather and father-in-law, burned the palace with Cheok Jun-gyeong and held the king captive; Injong won Cheok over and removed Yi.
Head of the Gyeongwon Yi clan, father-in-law to two kings, who rebelled in 1126 and fell
Seventeenth king of Goryeo, who faced the revolts of Yi Ja-gyeom and Myocheong and commissioned the Samguk sagi
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 Wang Geon, lord of Songak, to the Kaesong Industrial Complex — Gaegyeong, Goryeo’s capital for five centuries, and home of the Song merchants