Empress Myeongseong Memorial Hall

Local name명성황후기념관
LocationYeoju, South Korea

Empress Myeongseong or Empress Myung-Sung, known informally as Queen Min, was the first official wife of Gojong, the twenty-sixth king of Joseon and the first emperor of the Korean Empire.

The government of Meiji Japan considered Empress Myeongseong an obstacle to its overseas expansion. Efforts to remove her from the political arena, orchestrated through failed rebellions prompted by the father of King Gojong, the Heungseon Daewongun, compelled her to take a harsher stand against Japanese influence.After Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War, Joseon Korea came under the Japanese sphere of influence. The Empress advocated stronger ties between Korea and Russia in an attempt to block Japanese influence in Korea. Miura Gorō, the Japanese Minister to Korea at that time and a retired army lieutenant-general, backed the faction headed by the Daewongun, whom he considered to be more sympathetic to Japanese interests.

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Funeral Procession… @ Frank and Francis Carpenter Collection

More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Myeongseong

Official Website http://korean1.visitkorea.or.kr/kor/bz15/where/where_main_search.jsp?cid=130327

Phone +82 031-887-3578

Coordinates 37°15'38.169" N 127°39'24.069" E

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