Sunjong of Korea
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Sunjong, personal name Yi Cheok, also known as the Yunghui Emperor, was the last Korean monarch. He ascended to the throne upon the forced abdication of his father, Emperor Gojong. Hence, Sunjong has
Sunjong in c. 1910
The Emperor, Queen, and Yi On, the Crown Prince, but not the child of the Emperor. The Emperor and his second wife. Image collected in the United States.
Emperor Gojong and then-Crown Prince Cheok
Sunjong wearing the court uniform of the Korean Empire and Japanese honors
Korean Empire
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The Korean Empire, officially the Empire of Korea or Imperial Korea in English and commonly called Taehan Cheguk in Korean, was a Korean monarchical state proclaimed in October 1897 by King Gojong of
Sunjong of Korea
…also a member of the Yeoheung Min clan) from her assassination on 8 October 1895 by the Japanese military. When his father proclaimed Korea as an Empire in 1897, Sunjong was appointed as the Crown Prince of Imperial Korea on 12 October 1897. On 29 June 1898, he was appointed as the Field Marshal of the…
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