Person1109 – 1146

King Injong

Seventeenth king of Goryeo, who faced the revolts of Yi Ja-gyeom and Myocheong and commissioned the Samguk sagi

When Yi Ja-gyeom, his maternal grandfather and father-in-law, monopolised power, Injong's failed attempt to remove him triggered Yi Ja-gyeom's Rebellion in 1126; he then won over Cheok Jun-gyeong and ousted Yi. Seeking reform, he drew close to the Seogyeong faction of Myocheong and Jeong Ji-sang and built the Daehwa Palace there, but Myocheong rebelled in 1135 and Kim Bu-sik crushed the revolt. In 1145 he had Kim Bu-sik compile the Samguk sagi.

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1100Goryeo Plain Celadonrelated figure
Influenced by Song celadon, Goryeo potters made clear blue-green plain celadon in the 11th century, reaching a peak in the early 12th century praised as “kingfisher colour”.
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1126Yi Ja-gyeom’s Rebellionmonarch
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.
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1135 – 1136Myocheong’s Movement to Move the Capital to Seogyeongmonarch
Myocheong and Jeong Ji-sang of the Western Capital urged moving the capital there, proclaiming an emperor and attacking Jin; rebuffed, they rebelled in Seogyeong and were crushed within a year by government forces under Kim Bu-sik.
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1145Kim Bu-sik Compiles the Samguk sagimonarch
By order of King Injong, Kim Bu-sik and others compiled the Samguk sagi, a 50-volume annals-and-biographies history of Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla and the oldest surviving Korean history.

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Kim Bu-sik1075 – 1151
Confucian aristocrat of Gaegyeong who crushed Myocheong’s revolt and compiled the Samguk sagi in 1145
Yi Ja-gyeom1126
Head of the Gyeongwon Yi clan, father-in-law to two kings, who rebelled in 1126 and fell
Cheok Jun-gyeong1144
General who joined Yi Ja-gyeom’s revolt, then turned on him at the king’s urging
Myocheong1135
Monk of Seogyeong who urged moving the capital there, proclaiming an emperor and attacking Jin, and rebelled in 1135
Jeong Ji-sang1135
Poet-official from Seogyeong who backed Myocheong and was executed in Gaegyeong when the revolt broke out

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
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
Changes in Korean Ceramics8000 BC – 1900
From comb-pattern pottery to blue-and-white porcelain — earthenware, Goryeo plain and inlaid celadon, buncheong, white porcelain and blue-and-white
Pyongyang194 BC – 2007
From Wanggeom-seong of Gojoseon to the inter-Korean summits — capital of Goguryeo, Western Capital of Goryeo, the great city on the Taedong
GaeseongAD 901 – 2003
From Wang Geon, lord of Songak, to the Kaesong Industrial Complex — Gaegyeong, Goryeo’s capital for five centuries, and home of the Song merchants