Ch'oe Cheu
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Ch'oe Cheu, art name Suun, was a Korean religious leader. He was the founder of Donghak, a religious movement which was empathetic to the hardships of the minjung, opposed Catholicism and its associat
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Son Byong-hi
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Son Byong-hi was a Korean religious leader and independence activist. His religious name was Uiam. He was the third leader of Donghak, an indigenous religious movement founded from 1860 to 1864.
Ch'oe Cheu
…control. Haewol evaded capture for four years but was finally executed in 1898. In the wake of this disaster, the movement was drastically reorganized by Son Byong-Hi (Uiam, 1861–1922), who modernized Donghak in line with Western standards, which he had learned during a five-year exile in Japan (under an assumed…
Son Byeong Hui