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Dae Insu, also known as King Seon (r. 818–830) was the 10th king of the kingdom of
King Seon concentrated heavily on the empire's territorial expansion, and led campaigns that resulted in the absorption of many northern
The extension of Balhae empire under King Mun and King Seon
The 5 capitals and the 16 prefectures of Balhae under King Seon reign in 820
{{s-end 830 deaths Balhae rulers Mohe peoples 9th-century rulers in Asia Year of birth unknown
Balhae
Balhae ( ko, 발해, zh, c=渤海, p=Bóhǎi, russian: Бохай, translit=Bokhay, ), also rendered as Bohai, was a multi-ethnic kingdom whose land extends to what is today Northeast China, the Korean Peninsula and the Russian Far East. It wa ...
. He restored national strength, and is remembered today as the last of the great Balhae rulers
Balhae ( ko, 발해, zh, c=渤海, p=Bóhǎi, russian: Бохай, translit=Bokhay, ), also rendered as Bohai, was a multi-ethnic kingdom whose land extends to what is today Northeast China, the Korean Peninsula and the Russian Far East. It wa ...
before its fall.
Background
Dae Insu was a 4th-generation descendant ofDae Joyeong
Dae Joyeong (died 719) (; or in Korean) or Da Zuorong (大祚榮, 大祚荣, in Chinese), also known as King Go (; in Korean; Gao in Chinese), established the state of Balhae, reigning from 699 to 719.
Life Early life
Dae Joyeong wa ...
's younger brother, Dae Ya-bal. In spite being from the collateral branch, he succeeded to the throne during the years of 817 and 818. He reestablished royal authority, and strengthened the military tremendously.
Reign
King Seon concentrated heavily on the empire's territorial expansion, and led campaigns that resulted in the absorption of many northern Malgal
The Mohe, Malgal, or Mogher, or Mojie, were an East Asian Tungusic people who lived primarily in the modern geographical region of Northeast Asia. The two most powerful Mohe groups were known as the Heishui Mohe, located along the Amur River, a ...
tribes including Heishui Mohe
The Heishui Mohe (; mnc, Sahaliyan i Aiman or ), also known as the , rendered in English as Blackriver Mohe or Blackwater Mohe, were a tribe of Mohe people in Outer Manchuria along the Amur River () in what is now Russia's Khabarovsk Krai, Amur Ob ...
. Southwest Little Goguryeo
Little Goguryeo (; ko, 소고구려; alternatively Lesser Goguryeo, Little Gaogouli or Lesser Gaogouli) is the name of a state thought to have existed on the Liaodong Peninsula, proposed by the Japanese scholar Kaizaburo Hino ( :ja:日野開三 ...
in Liaodong
The Liaodong Peninsula (also Liaotung Peninsula, ) is a peninsula in southern Liaoning province in Northeast China, and makes up the southwestern coastal half of the Liaodong region. It is located between the mouths of the Daliao River (the ...
was absorbed into Balhae, and also he ordered southward expansion towards Silla
Silla or Shilla (57 BCE – 935 CE) ( , Old Korean: Syera, Old Japanese: Siraki2) was a Korean kingdom located on the southern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula. Silla, along with Baekje and Goguryeo, formed the Three Kingdoms of K ...
.
During his 12-year reign, he dispatched embassies five times to Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
, which was aimed at establishing diplomatic relations as well as increasing trade between the two kingdoms. Balhae emissaries were treated favorably even though Japan wanted Balhae to restrict the size of the embassies due to the costs associated with hosting them. The trade routes established across the Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it h ...
led to Balhae becoming one of Japan's most important trading partners.
He died in 830 and his grandson Dae Ijin
Dae Ijin (r. 830–857) was the 11th king of the Balhae kingdom, which existed from AD 698 to 926 and occupied parts of Manchuria and northern Korea. The era name of his reign was ''Hamhwa'' (咸和, 함화).New Book of Tang,北狄,"子新德蚤 ...
succeeded to the throne.
See also
*List of Korean monarchs
This is a list of monarchs of Korea, arranged by dynasty. Names are romanized according to the South Korean Revised Romanization of Korean. McCune–Reischauer romanizations may be found at the articles about the individual monarchs.
Gojoseon
G ...
*History of Korea
The Lower Paleolithic era in the Korean Peninsula and Manchuria began roughly half a million years ago.
Christopher J. Norton, "The Current State of Korean Paleoanthropology", (2000), ''Journal of Human Evolution'', 38: 803–825.
The earlies ...
*List of Administrative divisions of Balhae
The Balhae (or Bohai) kingdom controlled the northern Korean Peninsula, the area from the Amur River (''Heilong Jiang'') to the Strait of Tartary, and the Liaodong Peninsula. Similar to the workings of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, the administratio ...
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The extension of Balhae empire under King Mun and King Seon
The 5 capitals and the 16 prefectures of Balhae under King Seon reign in 820
{{s-end 830 deaths Balhae rulers Mohe peoples 9th-century rulers in Asia Year of birth unknown