Hwang Sin

Hwang Sin
Hangul 황신
Hanja 黃愼
Revised Romanization Hwang Sin
McCune–Reischauer Hwang Sin

Hwang Sin (1560–1617) was an officer of the Joseon Dynasty Korea in 16th and 17th centuries. In 1588, Hwang took first in the final civil service examination (Mungwa).[1]

He was also Korean diplomat and ambassador, representing Joseon interests in a diplomatic mission to the court of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Japan.

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1596-1597 mission to Japan

In the 23rd year of the reign of King Seonjo, the Joseon Court directed that a diplomatic mission to Japan would be dispatched to Kyoto. The Joseon representatives travelled with the Ming ambassadors who traveled to Kyoto to meet with Hideyoshi. The chief envoy of this Joseon delegation was Hwang sin.[2]

The purpose of this embassy was negotiating end of hostilities on the Korean peninsula and withdrawal of invading Japanese forces.[3] Hwang also hoped to arrange for the repatriation of more than 5,000 prisoners.[4] However, the venture served only to arouse Hideyoshi's anger; and as a consequence, the Japanese forces were increased rather than reduced.[2] Although diplomacy was intended to help move Joseon and Japan towards more normal relations, the mission was not understood to signify that relations were "normalized."[5]

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Notes

  1. ^ Lee, Peter et al. (2000). The Record of the Black Dragon Year, p/ 198.
  2. ^ a b Palais, James B. Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyŏngwŏn and the late Chosŏn Dynasty, p. 83; n.b., this source equates the term "formal ambassador" with "tongsinsa," without reference to signifying "normalized" bilateral relations.
  3. ^ Kang, Etsuko H. (1997). Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century, p. 225.
  4. ^ Lee, p. 48.
  5. ^ Lewis, James Bryant. (2003). Frontier contact between Chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan, pp. 21-24.

References

  • Kang, Etsuko Hae-jin. (1997). Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Basingstoke, Hampshire; Macmillan. 10-ISBN 0-312-17370-9/13-ISBN 978-0-312-17370-8; OCLC 243874305
  • Lee, Peter H., Koryŏ Taehakkyo and Minjok Munhwa Yŏnʼguso. (2000). The Record of the Black Dragon Year. Seoul: Korea University Press. 10-ISBN 8971550503/13-ISBN 9788971550502; OCLC 248417882
  • Lewis, James Bryant. (2003). Frontier contact between chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan. London: Routledge. 10-ISBN 0-700-71301-8/13-ISBN 978-0-700-71301-1
  • Palais, James B. (1995). Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyŏngwŏn and the late Chosŏn Dynasty. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 10-ISBN 0295974559/13-ISBN 9780295974552; OCLC 214839971

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