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Myocheong

Monk of Seogyeong who urged moving the capital there, proclaiming an emperor and attacking Jin, and rebelled in 1135

After Yi Ja-gyeom’s Rebellion he persuaded Injong that the earth energy of Gaegyeong was spent and had the Daehwa Palace built in Seogyeong, but Kim Bu-sik and other Gaegyeong aristocrats opposed the move. In 1135 he rebelled in Seogyeong, naming his state Daewi with the era name Cheongae, but was crushed by the government army under Kim Bu-sik. Sin Chae-ho called it "the greatest event in a thousand years of Korean history".

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    1135 – 1136Myocheong’s Movement to Move the Capital to Seogyeongleader

    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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  • Jeong Ji-sang1135

    Poet-official from Seogyeong who backed Myocheong and was executed in Gaegyeong when the revolt broke out

  • Kim Bu-sik1075 – 1151

    Confucian aristocrat of Gaegyeong who crushed Myocheong’s revolt and compiled the Samguk sagi in 1145

  • King Injong1109 – 1146

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

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    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

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    From Wanggeom-seong of Gojoseon to the inter-Korean summits — capital of Goguryeo, Western Capital of Goryeo, the great city on the Taedong