King U

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6 related events

1. 1
   1376Battle of Hongsanmonarch

   Choe Yeong routed Japanese pirates at Hongsan in Buyeo.

2. 2
   1377Establishment of the Hwatong Dogammonarch

   At Choe Mu-seon’s urging, Goryeo set up an office to make gunpowder and firearms, producing eighteen kinds of weapons, including the daejanggun cannon, for use against the pirates.

3. 3
   1380Battle of Jinpomonarch

   A Goryeo fleet under Na Se, Sim Deok-bu and Choe Mu-seon burned some 500 pirate ships at Jinpo with cannon — the first naval battle in Korean history fought with gunpowder artillery.

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   1380Battle of Hwangsanmonarch

   Yi Seong-gye crushed the pirates who, having lost their ships at Jinpo, were ravaging the interior, at Mount Hwangsan in Unbong, Namwon.

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   1387The Sacheon Incense-Burial Stele and the Hyangdomonarch

   In 1387, late in Goryeo, some 4,100 people at Sacheon formed a pact, buried incense wood and raised a stele. The hyangdo, the religious bodies behind such rites, later became village community groups.

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   1388Wihwado Retreatmonarch

   When the Ming claimed the land north of Cheollyeong, King U and Choe Yeong launched an expedition against Liaodong, but Yi Seong-gye turned the army back at Wihwado, ousted Choe Yeong and seized power.

People who appear alongside

• Choe Yeong1316 – 1388

  General who fought the Red Turbans and Japanese pirates, won at Hongsan in 1376, and was executed after the Wihwado retreat

• Choe Mu-seon1325 – 1395

  Inventor who learned to make gunpowder, built cannon at the Hwatong Dogam and burned the pirate fleet at Jinpo

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  Taejo (Yi Seong-gye)1335 – 1408

  Founder and first king of Joseon, formerly a general who fought Japanese pirates and the Red Turbans

Themes this person appears in

• Song, Ming and Samurai JapanAD 960 – 1500

  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

• Science and Technology HeritageAD 633 – 1861

  From Cheomseongdae to the Daedong yeojido — instruments and maps that measured the sky, kept time, gauged rain and charted the land

• Buyeo2000 BC – 1376

  From the Songguk-ri village to Sabi, Baekje’s last capital — the Geum River town where Baekje culture bloomed and fell