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King Jun

King of Gojoseon who lost the throne to Wiman and fled south

During the turmoil between the Qin and Han dynasties he trusted Wiman, a refugee from Yan, made him an erudite and set him to guard the western frontier. Wiman gathered other migrants, grew strong and around 194 BCE attacked Wanggeom Fortress and took the throne. Jun is said to have led his followers by sea to the land of Jin in the south, a story tied to the way Gojoseon refugees moving south helped form the Three Han.

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2 related events

1
194 BCWiman Seizes Gojoseonmonarch
Wiman, who had come from Yan with about a thousand followers, ousted King Jun and took the throne; Jun fled south and called himself King of Han.
2
150 BCThe Three Han — Mahan, Jinhan and Byeonhanrelated figure
South of the Han River the small states of Mahan, Jinhan and Byeonhan formed confederations, led by the ruler of Mokji in Mahan.

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Wiman
Refugee leader from Yan who ousted King Jun and took the throne of Gojoseon

Themes this person appears in

Ancient China and India770 BC – AD 220
From the Hundred Schools of the Warring States to the unified empires of Qin and Han, and from the Buddha to the Maurya and Kushan empires — the millennium that shaped East and South Asian civilisation
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
Gimhae150 BC – AD 685
From Guya of Byeonhan to Geumgwan Gaya — centre of the early Gaya league, built on iron and sea routes