Park Yeong-hyo

Where they went

5 related events

1. 1
   1870 – 1879Rise of Enlightenment Thoughtparticipant

   Park Gyu-su, O Gyeong-seok, Yu Hong-gi and others, heirs of the Northern Learning school who absorbed knowledge of the West reaching Korea through Qing, argued for opening the country and making it rich and strong. Their students Kim Ok-gyun, Park Yeong-hyo, Yu Gil-jun and others became the Enlightenment Party.

2. 2
   1882Treaty of Jemulpodiplomat

   Pressing claims over the legation burned in the Imo Incident, Japan won an indemnity and the right to station legation guards in Seoul.

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   1884Gapsin Coupleader

   Kim Ok-gyun and other radical reformers staged a coup at the banquet opening the new post office; Qing troops intervened and it collapsed in three days.

4. 1894 – 1896Gabo Reformparticipant

   A deliberative council abolished the class system and the civil service exam and overhauled government; the cabinet of Kim Hong-jip led it under Japanese pressure.

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   1894Proclamation of the Fourteen Articles (Hongbeom 14-jo)leader

   Gojong went to the royal ancestral shrine and proclaimed the Fourteen Articles setting out the course of reform — the charter of the second Gabo Reform.

People who appear alongside

• Kim Hong-jip1842 – 1896

  Prime minister who led the Gabo Reform; killed by a crowd after the king fled to the Russian legation

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  Gojong1852 – 1919

  Twenty-sixth king of Joseon and first emperor of the Korean Empire

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  Kim Ok-gyun1851 – 1894

  Radical reformer who led the 1884 coup, fled to Japan and was assassinated in Shanghai

• Hong Yeong-sik1855 – 1884

  Radical reformer and head of the Post Office, at whose opening banquet the Gapsin Coup began; he was killed when the coup failed

• Yu Gil-jun1856 – 1914

  Studied in Japan and the US after the 1881 inspection mission and the 1883 mission to America; wrote "Observations on a Journey to the West" and took part in the Gabo and Eulmi reforms

• Park Gyu-su1807 – 1877

  Grandson of Park Ji-won; as governor of Pyeongan he burned the General Sherman, later urged opening to trade and taught the reformers

• O Gyeong-seok1831 – 1879

  Interpreter who brought back from Qing books on Western affairs such as the Haiguo tuzhi and Yinghuan zhilüe, a pioneer of enlightenment thought

• Yu Hong-gi1831

  Daechi. A chungin physician who studied enlightenment ideas with O Gyeong-seok and guided young reformers such as Kim Ok-gyun, earning the name "prime minister in plain clothes"

Themes this person appears in

• Changes in TaxationAD 755 – 1894

  From land tax, tribute and labour to cash taxes in the Gabo Reform — burdens shifting from people and households to land

• Central Government Through the AgesAD 250 – 1899

  From the noble councils of the Three Kingdoms to the State Council, the Border Defense Council and the Gabo cabinet — how central government shifted between aristocratic consensus and royal power

• 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

• The Opening of East Asia1839 – 1901

  From the Opium War to the Boxer Protocol — sixty years in which China, Japan and Korea, forced open by Western gunboats, each tried to reform and went separate ways

• 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