Person1570 – 1652

Kim Sang-heon

Also called: Cheongeum

Westerner who led the call to fight on against Qing at Namhansanseong in the Second Manchu Invasion and was taken to Shenyang

In the Second Manchu Invasion he followed Injo into Namhansanseong and opposed peace to the end; he is said to have torn up the letter of surrender drafted by Choe Myeong-gil. After the surrender he withdrew to Andong, but for opposing Qing demands for Joseon troops against Ming he was taken to Shenyang and held for several years. On his return he was revered as the symbol of resistance to Qing. He left a sijo beginning "I go now, Mount Samgak; Han River, let us meet again".

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1636 – 1637Second Manchu Invasion of Koreaparticipant
Qing invaded Joseon. King Injo held out at Namhansanseong before surrendering at Samjeondo.

Related works

Film: The FortressDramatizedFilm · 2017 · Hwang Dong-hyuk
Book: The FortressDramatizedBook · 2007 · Kim Hoon · Hakgojae

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Injo1595 – 1649
Sixteenth king of Joseon, enthroned by coup; endured two Manchu invasions and surrendered at Samjeondo
Hong Taiji1592 – 1643
Khan of the Later Jin and first emperor of Qing, who invaded Joseon twice
Choe Myeong-gil1586 – 1647
Westerner who helped stage the Injo Restoration and led the case for making peace with Qing in the Second Manchu Invasion; also versed in Yangming learning

Themes this person appears in

Ming, Qing and Edo Japan1500 – 1800
The age when the Ming, shaken by northern raiders, southern pirates and the silver economy, fell to Li Zicheng’s rebels, and the Manchu Qing reached its greatest extent and prosperity under Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong — as Japan was unified out of the Warring States into the Edo shogunate’s bakuhan order and closed country, and Joseon, after two great wars, met its neighbours through embassies to Edo and the Northern Learning
Islamic Empires and the Atlantic World1500 – 1800
Three centuries in which the Ottomans of Suleiman I, the Mughals of Akbar and the Safavids of Abbas I flourished and then faltered, while across the Atlantic the slave trade and colonies transformed the Americas, leading to American independence
Reformation and Absolutism1517 – 1796
From Luther’s Ninety-five Theses to Catherine the Great — the wars of religion of a divided Christendom ended at Westphalia, and absolute monarchs armed with divine right, standing armies, bureaucracies and mercantilism, followed by the enlightened despots of eastern Europe, contended for the balance of power among sovereign states
Seoul18 BC – 1988
From Hanseong Baekje to the June Democratic Struggle — the Han River land every kingdom fought for, and Joseon’s capital for five centuries
Ganghwa Island1000 BC – 2011
From dolmens to the Treaty of Ganghwa — Goryeo’s refuge capital and the stage of Korea’s opening, the island the kingdom fell back on in every crisis