Yun Ung-nyeol

This is a Korean name; the family name is Yun.
Yun Ung-nyeol

Yun Ung-nyeol (left) and a friend attired in traditional Korean clothing. The two are engaged in a game of "Go-ban" (oriental chess) in one of the rooms of Yun's home in Seoul c. 1903.
Korean name
Hangul 윤웅렬
Hanja
Revised Romanization Yun Ung-nyeol
McCune–Reischauer Yun Ungnyŏl
Pen name
Hangul 반계
Hanja
Revised Romanization Bangye
McCune–Reischauer Pangye
Courtesy name
Hangul 영중
Hanja
Revised Romanization Yeongjoong
McCune–Reischauer Youngjung
General Yun Ung-nyeol is seated, wearing the western uniform of the Korean Empire. This photograph shows the general with his family c. 1910. Standing next to the old general is his son, Yun Chi-ho.

General Yun Ung-nyeol or Yun Woong Niel[1] (also known as Yun Ung-ryeol (윤웅렬, 1840-1911), was Joseon Dynasty and Korean Empire's solder and politicians. a member of Party Gaehwa(개화당;開化黨).

a Pro-Japanese scholar-bureaucrat of Joseon Dynasty and the Korean Empire in the late 19th-century and the early 20th-century. a penname was Bangye(반계, 磻溪).

Biography

Yun Ung-nyeol (1880s)

Yun Ung-nyeol was a member of one of the prominent yangban families of Korea. His family was considered wealthy.[2] but he was illegitimate child of his father. In 1857, Yun passed the military examination(무과; 武科).

he was long times Movementing of member Party Gaehwa with Kim Ok-gyun and Hong Yeongsik.

In 1904, Yun Ung-nyeol was the Korea's Minister of War.[3] 1911 died, aged 71.

In modern Korean historiography, General Yun has been designated one of the Chinilpa or pro-Japanese activists of the 1900s (decade).[4]

Notes

  1. Emory University, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL): Yun Ch'i-ho papers, 1883-1943
  2. "100 Koreans Freed; But Baron Yun Chi-ho and Other Prominent Men Are Found Guilty," New York Times. March 21, 1913.
  3. Speer, Robert E. (1905). "Korea, Japan and Russia," p. 60.
  4. (Korean) 2006년도 조사보고서 II - 친일반민족행위결정이유서, p. 257~262 친일반민족행위진상규명위원회, 11-1560010-0000002-10, 2006; n.b., investigative report II - pro-Japanese anti-national act decisive reasons, p. 257~262 pro-Japanese anti-national act truth close examination committees.

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