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Sunjo of Joseon

1790 - 1834

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Sunjo (Korean: 순조; Hanja: 純祖; 29 July 1790 – 13 December 1834), personal name Yi Gong (이공; 李玜), was the 23rd monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sunjo of Joseon has received more than 712,659 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Sunjo of Joseon is the 1,087th most popular politician (up from 1,887th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from South Korea (up from 32nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular South Korean Politician.

Sunjo of Joseon is most famous for the reforms he enacted during his reign. He was the first to abolish the slave trade, and he instituted a number of other reforms that improved the lives of the common people.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sunjo of Joseon ranks 1,087 out of 15,577. Before him are Ivan Mazepa, John III of Portugal, Basil I, Scipio Aemilianus, Jerry Brown, and Theodoric the Great. After him are Klement Gottwald, Hassan Rouhani, Afonso V of Portugal, Constans II, Jalal Talabani, and Charles XV of Sweden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Sunjo of Joseon ranks 3. Before him are Jean-François Champollion and Leopold I of Belgium. After him are George Everest, August Ferdinand Möbius, John Tyler, Alphonse de Lamartine, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Nicolas Chauvin, John Frederic Daniell, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, and Robert Stirling. Among people deceased in 1834, Sunjo of Joseon ranks 6. Before him are Thomas Robert Malthus, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Pedro I of Brazil, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and Joseph Marie Jacquard. After him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Alois Senefelder, William Carey, Karl Ludwig Harding, and Husein Gradaščević.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Sunjo of Joseon ranks 17 out of 944. Before him are Gojong of Korea (1852), Park Geun-hye (1952), Empress Gi (1315), Sejo of Joseon (1417), Yi Sun-sin (1545), and Roh Tae-woo (1932). After him are Jungjong of Joseon (1488), Gyeongjong of Joseon (1688), Roh Moo-hyun (1946), Seonjo of Joseon (1552), Sunjong of Korea (1874), and Cheoljong of Joseon (1831).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Korea

Among politicians born in South Korea, Sunjo of Joseon ranks 15. Before him are Sukjong of Joseon (1661), Gojong of Korea (1852), Park Geun-hye (1952), Empress Gi (1315), Sejo of Joseon (1417), and Roh Tae-woo (1932). After him are Jungjong of Joseon (1488), Gyeongjong of Joseon (1688), Roh Moo-hyun (1946), Seonjo of Joseon (1552), Sunjong of Korea (1874), and Cheoljong of Joseon (1831).

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