Person1546 – 1592

Sin Rip

General who made a back-to-the-river stand at Tangeumdae, Chungju, early in the Imjin War and died when routed by Konishi Yukinaga

Passing the military examination under Seonjo, he made his name on the northern frontier of Hamgyeong and in 1583 drove back the Jurchen incursion led by Nitanggae. When the Imjin War broke out in 1592 he was made commander for the three southern provinces and went to stop the Japanese advance. Abandoning the narrow Joryeong pass, he deployed his cavalry on the open ground before Tangeumdae in Chungju with the Namhan River at his back, and was routed. The defeat opened the road to Hanyang, sent Seonjo fleeing north and exposed the weakness of the jeseung bangnyak defence system.

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3 related events

  1. 1
    1457Jingwan defence systemrelated figure

    King Sejo set up the jingwan system, grouping the troops of nearby counties under a key garrison town in each province for self-defence. The central army was reorganised into the Five Guards.

  2. 1592 – 1598Imjin Warcommander

    A seven-year war that began with Japan's invasion of Joseon in 1592 and lasted until 1598. Ming China sent troops, turning it into an East Asian international war.

  3. 2

    Sin Rip made a stand with a river at his back at Tangeumdae, Chungju, against Konishi Yukinaga’s Japanese army, but was routed and died. When Chungju fell, King Seonjo fled the capital.

People who appear alongside

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    Chief State Councillor who directed the war effort during the Imjin War, proposed the Hullyeon Dogam, and wrote the Jingbirok

  • Sejo (Grand Prince Suyang)1417 – 1468

    Seized power in the 1453 coup and took the throne from his nephew Danjong

  • King Seonjo1552 – 1608

    Fourteenth king of Joseon; fled to Uiju and asked Ming for help

  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi1537 – 1598

    Unified Japan and launched the invasion of Korea

  • Yi Sun-sin1545 – 1598

    Admiral of the Joseon navy, victorious at Okpo, Hansando and Myeongnyang

  • Hyujeong (Seosan Daesa)1520 – 1604

    Buddhist master who, as supreme commander of monks, raised monk soldiers across the country in the Imjin War and joined the recapture of Pyongyang

  • Yujeong (Samyeong Daesa)1544 – 1610

    Hyujeong's disciple who led monk soldiers in the Imjin War and after the war went to Japan to negotiate and bring captives home

  • Konishi Yukinaga1558 – 1600

    Led the first Japanese division from the Busan landing up to Pyongyang

Themes this person appears in

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    From the Japanese invasion to the Battle of Noryang — the righteous armies, Yi Sun-sin at sea, and Ming intervention

  • 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

  • Military Systems Through the AgesAD 685 – 1907

    From the Nine Oath Banners to the Two Armies and Six Guards, the Five Commands and garrison system, the Five Army Camps and the Board of Marshals — armies rebuilt at every crisis

  • 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

  • ChungjuAD 450 – 1895

    From the Goguryeo stele to Tangeumdae — Jungwon, the middle of the Namhan River route that the Three Kingdoms fought over