The House of Yi, also called the Yi dynasty, was the royal family of the Joseon dynasty and later the imperial family of the Korean Empire, descended from the Joseon founder Yi Seong-gye. All of his descendants are members of the Jeonju Yi clan.
Portrait for Taejo of Joseon, a 1872 copy painted by Cho Chungmuk
Emperor Gojong in 1898, painted by Hubert Vos
Korean Imperial family circa 1915. The image is a compilation of individual photographs taken since the Japanese did not allow them to all be in the same room at the same time, and some were forced to leave Korea. From left: Yi Kang, Sunjong, Yi Un, Gojong, Empress Sunjeong, Deogindang Gimbi and Yi Geon. The seated child in the front row is Princess Deokhye.
Crown Prince Yi Un with Itō Hirobumi, 1907
The Korean Empire, officially the Empire of Korea or Imperial Korea, was a Korean monarchical state proclaimed in October 1897 by King Gojong of the Joseon dynasty. The empire stood until Japan's annexation of Korea in August 1910.
Hwangudan in 1906
State funeral of Min Young-hwan who committed suicide in protest of the Eulsa Treaty
Soldiers of the Korean Imperial Army, 1898
KIS Yangmu, the first naval ship of the Imperial Korean Navy
