Quick Facts
- Also called:
- Yi Ha-eung
- Formerly spelled:
- Taewŏn-gun
- Born:
- 1821
- Died:
- 1898 (aged 77)
- Notable Family Members:
- son Gojong
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Daewon-gun
Korean regent
Also known as: Taewŏn-gun, Yi Ha-eung
Daewon-gun (born 1821—died 1898) was the father of the Korean king Gojong.
As regent from 1864 to 1873, Daewon-gun inaugurated a far-ranging reform program to strengthen the central administration; he modernized and increased its armies and rationalized the administration. Opposed to any concessions to Japan or the West, Daewon-gun, though out of power, helped organize the anti-Japanese outbreak in 1882. Considered a troublemaker, he was then kidnapped and taken to China for three years. By the time he returned, his power and many of his reforms had been eliminated.
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