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Gojong of Korea

1852 - 1919

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Gojong (Korean: 고종; Hanja: 高宗; MR: Kojong; 8 September 1852 – 21 January 1919), personal name Yi Myŏngbok (이명복; 李命福), later Yi Hui (이희; 李㷩), also known as the Gwangmu Emperor (광무제; 光武帝), was the penultimate Korean monarch. He ruled Korea for 43 years, from 1864 to 1907, first as the last king of Joseon, and then as the first emperor of the Korean Empire from 1897 until his forced abdication in 1907. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gojong of Korea has received more than 1,763,968 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Gojong of Korea is the 902nd most popular politician (up from 980th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from South Korea (down from 10th in 2019) and the 10th most popular South Korean Politician.

Gojong of Korea is most famous for being the last king of Korea. He was the son of King Kojong and Queen Min, who was a concubine. He became the king after his father died in 1907.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gojong of Korea ranks 902 out of 15,577Before him are Michael III, Tullus Hostilius, Şah Sultan, Władysław III of Poland, Artaxerxes II of Persia, and Ptolemy V Epiphanes. After him are Julius Streicher, Helmut Schmidt, Andronikos II Palaiologos, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Hafizullah Amin, and Cambyses I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Gojong of Korea ranks 7Before him are Antoni Gaudí, Henri Becquerel, Emperor Meiji, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Emil Fischer, and Henri Moissan. After him are Albert A. Michelson, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, William Ramsay, Francisco Tárrega, Joseph Joffre, and Charles Taze Russell. Among people deceased in 1919, Gojong of Korea ranks 10Before him are Ernst Haeckel, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Emil Fischer, Karl Liebknecht, Alfred Werner, and Emiliano Zapata. After him are John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Andrew Carnegie, Ruggero Leoncavallo, William Crookes, Carl Larsson, and Yakov Sverdlov.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Gojong of Korea ranks 11 out of 944Before him are Syngman Rhee (1875), Kim Dae-jung (1924), Yeongjo of Joseon (1694), Chun Doo-hwan (1931), Ban Ki-moon (1944), and Sukjong of Joseon (1661). After him are Park Geun-hye (1952), Empress Gi (1315), Sejo of Joseon (1417), Yi Sun-sin (1545), Roh Tae-woo (1932), and Sunjo of Joseon (1790).

Among POLITICIANS In South Korea

Among politicians born in South Korea, Gojong of Korea ranks 10Before him are Moon Jae-in (1953), Syngman Rhee (1875), Kim Dae-jung (1924), Yeongjo of Joseon (1694), Chun Doo-hwan (1931), and Sukjong of Joseon (1661). After him are Park Geun-hye (1952), Empress Gi (1315), Sejo of Joseon (1417), Roh Tae-woo (1932), Sunjo of Joseon (1790), and Jungjong of Joseon (1488).