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Han Eum () also known as Han Do () was one of the four members (
No In No In () was one of the four members (No In, Han Eum, Sam of Gojoseon, Sam and Wang Gyeop) who operated the government of Wiman Joseon. His position was a chancellor and he was in charge of politics of Wiman Joseon. Since No In had a family name, i ...
, Han Eum,
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and
Wang Gyeop Wan Gyeop () was one of the four members (No In, Han Eum, Sam and Wang Gyeop) who operated the government of Wiman Joseon. His position was a general. Since Wang Gyeop had a family name, it is believed that he was an exile from China or person rel ...
) who operated the government of Wiman Joseon. His position was a
chancellor Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ...
. Since Han Eum had a family name, Han, it is believed that he was an exile from
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
or person related to China. Just like his master
Ugeo Ugeo (, died 108 BC) was the last king of Wiman Joseon, the last remnant of Gojoseon. He was a grandson of Wi Man. Ugeo was killed by an assassin sent by a faction advocating surrender. Even after the death of Ugeo, Gojoseon resisted the Han ...
who was the last king of Wiman Joseon. In BC 109 to 108, when
Han dynasty The Han dynasty (, ; ) was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD), established by Liu Bang (Emperor Gao) and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–207 BC) and a warr ...
attacked Wiman Joseon, he was surrendered instantly together with those exiles from China, No In and Wang Gyeop, while leaving the King of Wiman Joseon Ugeo. After his surrender, Han dynasty nominated him as a peerage of Jeok ja (
Hangul The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The let ...
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Hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, wh ...
:荻苴). He died after 19 years without a successor.


See also

* Han conquest of Gojoseon


References


Source

* *{{Cite book, author= National Institute of Korean History, script-title=ko:漢書>朝鮮傳>古朝鮮>左將軍이 이미 두 군대를 합병한 뒤, url=http://db.history.go.kr/item/level.do;jsessionid=51C52795591776D724BEA2AA2C2BB88E?levelId=jo_002r_0010_0010_0100, ref={{Harvid, National Institute of Korean History} 註 042 Wiman Joseon people Korean people of Chinese descent Korean politicians Year of birth unknown 89 BC deaths 2nd-century BC Korean people 1st-century BC Korean people