Sam () 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 Han Eum () also known as Han Do () 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. Since Han Eum had a family name, Han, it is believed t ...

, Sam 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 r ...

) who operated the government of

Wiman Joseon Wiman Joseon (194–108 BC) was a dynasty of Gojoseon. It began with Wiman's (Wei Man) seizure of the throne from Gija Joseon's King Jun and ended with the death of King Ugeo who was a grandson of Wiman. Apart from archaeological data, the ma ...

. He was a

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of Nigye (

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:니계

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 ...

:尼谿) and it was where he based himself for. He was the only one who did not have

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in those 4 members. 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, those three exiles from

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, No In, Han Eum and Wang Gyeop surrendered instantly while leaving the King of Wiman Joseon

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 ...

and Sam was only one who resisted against Han dynasty among those members. However, in BC 108, Sam sent an assassin to Ugeo, killed him and surrendered to Han dynasty. After his surrender, he was nominated as a peerage of Hwae Cheong (

:홰청

:澅清) by Han dynasty. 11 years later, he was arrested on suspicion of hiding the fugitive from Wiman Joseon and died of illness while he was in

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