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Biography of Yngjo
Name: Yngjo
Birth Date: October 31, 1694
Death Date: April 22, 1776
Place of Birth: Korea
Nationality: Korean
Gender: Male
Occupations: king
Yngjo
Yngjo (1694-1776) was a Korean king who ruled from 1724 to 1776. His reign was the longest and one of the most brilliant of the Yi dynasty.The formal name of Yngjo was Yi Kum; in the years before acceding to the throne he was known as Prince Yning. His first posthumous name was Yngjong, but this was changed to Yngjo in 1889. Born on Oct. 31, 1694, he was the fourth son of King Sukchong (reigned 1674-1720) and the younger half brother of King Kyngjong (1720-1724). From his childhood, it was evident that Yngjo was the most intelligent and capable of Sukchong's sons. Kyngjong's four-year reign was torn by constant political crises. Because he was childless, Yngjo was made his heir in 1720; later he became in addition prince regent, sharing authority with the dowager queen. He became king on Oct. 16, 1724, five days after Kyngjong's suspiciously sudden death.His AchievementYngjo's greatest achievement was the restoration of political order, …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…the conventions often used in interpreting posthumous names, can mean "Contritely Lamented Prince." The bizarre method of execution, strange even in consideration of the traditional Korean prohibition against the shedding of royal blood, and the tardy and oddly sudden remorse combine to suggest Yngjo's disturbed personality.Yngjo lived for nearly 14 years after Sado's death, and some of his most famous enactments date from this period. Yngjo died on April 22, 1776, in Kynghui Palace in Seoul. Further Reading There is no biography of Yngjo in English. The events of his reign can be perused in survey histories such as Takashi Hatada, A History of Korea, translated and edited by Warren W. Smith and Benjamin H. Hazard (1969), and Woo-keun Han, The History of Korea, translated by Kyung-sik Lee and edited by Grafton Mintz (1970). Much of interest concerning the reigns of both Yngjo and Kyngjong can be found in Chao-ying Fang, The Asmai Library (1969).
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