King Hyeonjong

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1. AD 993 – 1019Khitan Invasions of Goryeomonarch

   The Khitan Liao invaded Goryeo three times between 993 and 1019. Goryeo repelled them through Seo Hui’s diplomacy and Gang Gam-chan’s victory at Gwiju.

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   AD 995 – 1018Two Armies, Six Guards and the Provincial Forcesmonarch

   Goryeo’s central army consisted of the Two Armies and Six Guards, and its provincial forces of the juhyeongun in the five circuits and the jujingun in the two frontier regions.

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   1009Gang Jo’s Couprelated figure

   Gang Jo marched on Gaegyeong from the northwest, destroyed Kim Chi-yang’s faction, deposed King Mokjong and enthroned Hyeonjong; the Khitans used this as a pretext for their second invasion.

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   1010 – 1011Second Khitan Invasionmonarch

   Emperor Shengzong of Liao invaded with 400,000 men and took Gaegyeong; King Hyeonjong fled to Naju, and Yang Gyu harried the retreating enemy and freed captives.

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   1011 – 1087Carving the First Tripitakamonarch

   Hoping the Buddha’s power would repel the Khitans, Goryeo began carving the Buddhist canon under Hyeonjong and finished it decades later; the blocks burned in the Mongol invasion of 1232.

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   1013 – 1034Compilation of the Annals of Seven Reignsmonarch

   After Gaegyeong burned in the second Khitan invasion and the records were lost, the annals of the seven kings from Taejo to Mokjong were compiled anew from Hyeonjong’s reign and completed under Deokjong.

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   1018Five Circuits and Two Frontier Regionsmonarch

   Under Hyeonjong the provinces were reorganized around four protectorates and eight governorships, and a capital region (Gyeonggi) was set up around Gaegyeong; the five circuits and the two military frontier regions took shape thereafter.

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   1023 – 1308Sacheondae and Seoungwan — Astronomy in Goryeomonarch

   Goryeo set up the Sacheondae as its astronomical office and later merged it with the Taesaguk into the Seoungwan.

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People who appear alongside

• King SeongjongAD 960 – AD 997

  Sixth king of Goryeo, who adopted Choe Seung-ro’s 28-article memorial and built a Confucian central and local administration

• Yang Gyu1011

  Defender of Heunghwajin who harried the retreating Khitans in 1011, freeing some 30,000 captives before he fell

• Emperor Shengzong of LiaoAD 971 – 1031

  Khitan emperor who personally led 400,000 troops into Goryeo in 1010, using Gang Jo’s coup as a pretext

• Gang Jo1010

  Northwestern commander who deposed Mokjong in 1009; captured and killed by the Khitans at Tongju in 1010

• Seo HuiAD 942 – AD 998

  Statesman who negotiated with Xiao Sunning in 993 and won the six garrisons east of the Yalu

• Gang Gam-chanAD 948 – 1031

  Commander-in-chief who won the Battle of Gwiju in 1019 and proposed the outer wall of Gaegyeong

• King MokjongAD 980 – 1009

  Seventh king of Goryeo, deposed and killed in Gang Jo’s coup

• King Chungseon1275 – 1325

  Twenty-sixth king of Goryeo, who founded the Mangwondang library in Dadu where Goryeo and Yuan scholars met

Themes this person appears in

• Song, Ming and Samurai JapanAD 960 – 1500

  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

• Local Administration Through the AgesAD 250 – 1896

  From the five regions of the Three Kingdoms through nine provinces, the five circuits and two frontiers and the eight provinces to the thirteen — how directly the centre came to rule the regions

• Military Systems Through the AgesAD 685 – 1907

  From the Nine Oath Banners to the Two Armies and Six Guards, the Five Commands and garrison system, the Five Army Camps and the Board of Marshals — armies rebuilt at every crisis

• Writing Korean HistoryAD 375 – 1931

  From the Seogi, Guksa and Sinjip to the Joseon sanggosa — history-writing as royal display, Confucian record, assertion of independence and nationalist scholarship

• Printing and Documentary HeritageAD 751 – 2011

  From the Dharani Sutra to the May 18 archives — woodblock and metal-type printing, and the records inscribed on the Memory of the World