Person1842 – 1915
Yu In-seok
Confucian loyalist who raised the 1895 righteous army at Jecheon and later led the Thirteen-Province Army in the Russian Maritime Province
A disciple of Yi Hang-no, he carried on the ideology of defending orthodoxy and rejecting heterodoxy. In 1895 he raised a righteous army at Jecheon against the Eulmi Incident and the topknot decree, and his forces took Chungju fortress. After the king's flight to the Russian legation, when Gojong rescinded the decree and urged the armies to disband, he moved to western Jiandao. In 1910 he organised the Thirteen-Province Righteous Army in the Russian Maritime Province with Yi Sang-seol and others and was named its commander-in-chief, but after the annexation Russian suppression ended its activities.
