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Goryeo-Song Diplomacy (1120s)

Type Event Region East Asia Time 1123–1130

In the 1120s, after Northern Song was pressed by Jin and Bianjing fell (1127), Goryeo's Injong court maintained envoys and tributary ties with Song w…

Timeline

  1. 1123–1124Kaesong · KaesongAfter Yejong died in 1122, Injong acceded. Between 1123 and 1124 Goryeo sent envoys to Song to announce the succession and continue tributary exchanges. As the Song-Jin war intensified, Goryeo probed Jin's stance while maintaining traditional overlord-vassal ties with Song.
  2. 1127–1128Lin'an (Southern Song court) · Southern SongAfter Bianjing fell and Northern Song perished in 1127, the Song court moved south. Despite already submitting to Jin, Goryeo still sent envoys to the Southern Song court to congratulate Emperor Gaozong's accession and present tribute, showing a pragmatic balancing strategy between Song and Jin.
  3. 1129–1130Korean Peninsula and Southern Song sea routes · Yellow SeaAround 1130, Goryeo and Southern Song still maintained intermittent envoy exchanges, sharing frontier intelligence and maritime trade information. Goryeo-Song relations formally continued the tributary system, but in substance were constrained by the new Jin-dominated Northeast Asian order.

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