Kojong

Kojong

▪ Korean emperor
original name  Yi H'ui 
born Sept. 8, 1852, Seoul, Korea [now in South Korea]
died Jan. 21, 1919, Seoul

      26th monarch of the Chosŏn (Yi) dynasty and the last to effectively rule Korea.

      Kojong became king of Korea while still a young boy. During the first years of his reign, power was in the hands of his father, Taewŏn-gun, who as regent attempted to restore and revitalize the country. When Taewŏn-gun was kidnapped and taken to China in 1882, power passed to Kojong's queen, Min, who opposed all modernization efforts. She was assassinated by the Japanese in 1895. Two years later, in an effort to save the country, Kojong elevated himself from king to emperor and changed the name of the country from Chosŏn to Taehan (“Great Han”), actions symbolic of his independence from China.

      During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, however, Japan invaded Korea and forced the emperor to sign a treaty allowing the Japanese to use the country as a military base and to place advisers in the government. After the war, Japan set up a protectorate in Korea. In 1907 the king was forced to abdicate in favour of his son, after it came to light that he had dispatched emissaries to plead Korea's case at the second Hague Convention. Three years later Japan officially annexed Korea. Kojong's death in 1919 sparked rumours that he had been poisoned by the Japanese, and his funeral served as the impetus for the March 1st independence movement.

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