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Military Academy Of Korean Empire
Military Academy of the Korean Empire was a military academy of the Korean Empire established in 1896. However, as a result of shrink in military force of Imperial Korea by Japanese influence, the academy was disbanded in 1909. Establishment After the establishment of Hunryeondae as part of the Gabo Reform, Hunryeondae Military Academy was established to educate officers. However, after the assassination of Queen Min, Hunryeondae and the military academy was dissolved too in September 1895. The need for a military academy led to the establishment of Military Academy of Korean Empire. On 11 January 1896, Gojong established the academy with his imperial decree. Korean Empire However, after the Gojong's exile to the Russian legation, the military academy was not able to operate properly as an academy. After Gojong's return to the palace, Minister of Military Yi Jong-geon asked for the establishment of the military academy in March 1898. By the imperial decree, old academy, tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean Empire
The Korean Empire () was a Korean monarchical state proclaimed in October 1897 by Emperor Gojong of the Joseon dynasty. The empire stood until Japan's annexation of Korea in August 1910. During the Korean Empire, Emperor Gojong oversaw the Gwangmu Reform, a partial modernization and westernization of Korea's military, economy, land system, education system, and of various industries. In 1905, the Korean Empire became a protectorate of the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese annexation in 1910, the Korean Empire was abolished. History Formation Following the Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War, Joseon won independence from the Qing dynasty. Proclaiming an empire was seen by many politicians as a good way to maintain independence. At the request of many officials, Gojong of Korea proclaimed the Korean Empire. In 1897, Gojong was crowned in Hwangudan. Gojong named the new empire ''Dahan'' and changed the regnal year to ''Gwangmu'', with 1897 being the first year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jinwidae
Jinwidae (Hangul: 진위대, Hanja: 鎭衛隊) was an organization of the Imperial Korean Army established in September 1895 by Gojong of Korea when he knew that Hullyeondae was part of the assassination of Empress Myeongseong. History Jinwidae was a force deployed in the countryside. At first, two battalions were formed. One was deployed in Jeonju, and the other one was deployed in Pyongyang. One battalion included less than 500 men, including the officers. In 1897, 10,000 Won was deployed for Jinwidae. In July 1900, Jinwidae was reassigned with 6 regiments. Jibangdae, which comprised an old-style army, joined Jinwidae in September 1900. By August 1901, Jinwidae had 6 regiments of 18 battalions which is 18,000 men in total. 1 Regiment included about 2,000 men. However, after Russo-Japanese War ended with the victory of Empire of Japan, Jinwidae was shrinking in Numbers. Eighteen battalions shrank to 8 battalions, making it less than 3,000 men. Dissolution Jinwidae was planne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 Establishments In Korea
Events January–March * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation (later known as X-rays). * January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope, for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. * January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook. * January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. * January 17 – Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British redcoats enter the Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed. * January 18 – The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time. * January 28 – Walter Arnold, of East Peckham, Kent, England, is fined 1 shilling for speeding at (exceeding the contemporary speed limit of , the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ji Cheong-cheon
Ji Cheong-cheon (25 January 1888 – 15 January 1957), also known as Yi Cheong-cheon, was a Korean independence activist during the period of Japanese rule (1910–1945). He later became a South Korean politician. His name was originally Ji Seok-gyu , but he took the nom de guerre Ji Cheong-cheon, meaning "Earth and Blue Sky", while leading Korean guerrilla forces against the Japanese. He also went by Ji Dae-hyoung, Ji Su-bong, Ji Eul-gyu, Lee Cheong-Cheon, and Lee Dae-hyoung to hide his identity from Japanese forces while conducting military independence activities. Used the pen name Baeksan, meaning White (Bright, Clear, Snowy) Mountain. He was a 1914 graduate of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy; however, he defected to the Korean guerrilla forces in 1919, bringing with him knowledge of modern military techniques when he was a lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army. His skills were appreciated by the Korean guerrilla forces who made him the superintendent of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Pal-gyun
Shin Pal-gyun (, May 19, 1882 – July 2, 1924) or Shin Dong-chun () was an independence activist of Korea. His wife Im Su-myung () was an independence activist also. Biography Shin Pal-gyun was born in Seoul on May 19, 1882. His great-great-grandfather Shin Hong-ju, grandfather Shin-hun, and father Shin Seok-hee were all high-ranking military officers. Especially his father Shin Seok-hee was the officer that negotiationed Treaty of Ganghwa and Joseon-America Treaty. So Shin Pal-hyun naturally grew up a soldier of Korean Empire. He graduated the Military Academy and he became a military officer in 1903. In 1907, the Korean army was disorganizationed by Japan. In 1909, he decided to start the independence movement. After Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty, fled to Manchuria and Primorsky Krai, and settled in West Jiandao. He joined Shinheung Military Academy. He worked there as an instructor and he trained many independence activists. At the same time he graduated Imperial Japanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Chwa-chin
Kim Chwa-jin or Kim Jwa-jin (December 16, 1889 – January 24, 1930), sometimes called by his pen name Baegya, was a Korean general, independence activist, and anarchist who played an important role in the early attempts at development of anarchism in Korea. Biography Kim was born in Hongseong County, Chungcheong Province on December 16, 1889 as the second son of Kim Hyeong-gyo. He was part of a wealthy family of the Andong Kim lineage. Kim was described as a broad-minded and intelligent child. When he was 3 years old, his father died, and he grew up under strict education by his mother, Hansan Yi. In 1904, he married Oh Sook-geun. Kim Chwa-chin moved to Seoul in 1905 in order to attend an Army Military Academy, later establishing the Namyeon School in 1907, where modern academic disciplines were taught. When Kim was 18, he released 50 families of slaves when he publicly burned the slave registry and provided each family with enough land to live on. This was the first emancip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Seung-hwan
Park Seung-hwan was a Korean major, war hero and independence activist of the Korean Empire. He was known for organizing the Battle of Namdaemun after his suicide as a response to the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907 and the abdication of Emperor Gojong. Biography He was born on September 7, 1869, in Hanseong, Gyeonggi as the eldest of three children of Park Joo-pyo and Namyang Hong. In 1887, he took the exam in Mugwa and on September 28, 1896, he entered the . During his education at the academy, Yi Hak-gyun, a Korean nationalist Major, was the principal, which made Park to shape himself as a nationalist soldier. He graduated on March 21, 1897, and was commissioned as a Second-Lieutenant in the Imperial Korean Guards. Afterwards, on November 11, 1899, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the army and was appointed as the platoon commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Siwi Regiment and on July 23, 1900, he was promoted to the rank of captain and took the command of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yi Dong-hwi
Yi Donghwi (; August 2, 1873 ~ January 31, 1935) was a prominent Communist politician of Korea, and the second Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. In 1911, Yi was exiled in Manchuria and moved to Primorsky Krai. From 1919 to 1921, he was the defense minister of the government in exile in Shanghai. Yi died in 1935 in Shinhanchon, Vladivostok, Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ..., and was reinterred in South Korea in 2007. References External links Brief Biography of Yi Donghwi(Korean) 1873 births 1935 deaths Korean politicians Korean socialists Korean expatriates in the Soviet Union {{Korea-bio-stub Imperial Korean military personnel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Righteous Army
Righteous armies, sometimes called irregular armies or militias, are informal civilian militias that have appeared several times in Korean history, when the national armies were in need of assistance. The first righteous armies emerged during the Khitan invasions of Korea and the Mongol invasions of Korea. They subsequently rose up during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598), the first and second Manchu invasions, and during the Japanese occupation and preceding events. During the long period of Japanese intervention and annexation from 1890 to 1945, the disbanded imperial guard, and Confucian scholars, as well as farmers, formed over 60 successive righteous armies to fight for Korean freedom on the Korean peninsula. These were preceded by the Donghak movement, and succeeded by various Korean independence movements in the 1920s and beyond, which declared Korean independence from Japanese occupation. During the Japanese invasions under Hideyoshi of Korea The righteo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yangban
The ''yangban'' () were part of the traditional ruling class or gentry of dynastic Korea during the Joseon Dynasty. The ''yangban'' were mainly composed of highly educated civil servants and military officers—landed or unlanded aristocrats who individually exemplified the Korean Confucian form of a " scholarly official". They were largely government administrators and bureaucrats who oversaw medieval and early modern Korea's traditional agrarian bureaucracy until the end of the dynasty in 1897. In a broader sense, an office holder's family and descendants, as well as country families who claimed such descent, were socially accepted as ''yangban''. Overview Unlike noble titles in the European and Japanese aristocracies, which were conferred on a hereditary basis, the bureaucratic position of ''yangban'' was granted by law to ''yangban'' who meritoriously passed state-sponsored civil service exams called ''gwageo'' (). This exam was modeled on the imperial examinations first s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial Japanese Army Academy
The was the principal officer's training school for the Imperial Japanese Army. The programme consisted of a junior course for graduates of local army cadet schools and for those who had completed four years of middle school, and a senior course for officer candidates. History and background Established as the ''Heigakkō'' in 1868 in Kyoto, the officer training school was renamed the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1874 and relocated to Ichigaya, Tokyo. After 1898, the Academy came under the supervision of the Army Education Administration. In 1937 the Academy was divided, with the Senior Course Academy being relocated to Sagamihara in Kanagawa prefecture, and the Junior Course School moved to Asaka, Saitama. The 50th graduation ceremony was held in the new Academy buildings in Sagamihara on 20 December 1937, and was attended by the Shōwa Emperor (Emperor Hirohito) himself. In 1938, a separate school was established for military aviation officers. During World War II, the sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabo Reform
The Gabo Reform, also known as the Kabo Reform, describes a series of sweeping reforms suggested to the government of Korea, beginning in 1894 and ending in 1896 during the reign of Gojong of Korea in response to the Donghak Peasant Revolution. Historians debate the degree of Japanese influence in this program, as well as its effect in encouraging modernization. The name Gabo (갑오, 甲午) comes from the name of the year 1894 in the traditional sexagenary cycle.Gabo Reforms at Nate Britannica Korea Background The disarray and blatant corruption in the Korean government, particularly in the three main areas of revenues – land tax, military service, and the state granary system – weighed heavily on the Korean ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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