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Yi Seong-gye

Type Figure Region Korean Peninsula Time 1335–1408 Also known as Li Jundu、Taejo (Joseon)

Yi Seong-gye (1335–1408), born into a local strongman family in northeastern Goryeo, grew up amid late-Yuan–Goryeo turmoil, became a renowned late-Go…

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  1. 1341–1350Hamhung · Hamgyeong ProvinceIn the 1340s Yi Seong-gye grew up in a Hamgyeong local strongman environment; his father Yi Jachun (Li Zhichun) was a wanhu, and the family accumulated military and local resources in the northeastern Goryeo frontier society at the end of the Yuan.
  2. c. 1360–1392Korean Peninsula · GoryeoAfter the 1360s Yi Seong-gye took up a military career, winning repeated merits and gradually becoming the most powerful general of late Goryeo; in 1392 he launched a coup to establish the Joseon dynasty.

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