Yi Wan-yong

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Yi Wan-yong was a Korean politician and collaborator best known for playing a leading role in facilitating Japan’s annexation of Korea in 1910.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Korean politician
collaborator with Imperial Japan
person
activeInPeriod Korean Empire period
late Joseon period
period of Japanese rule over Korea
alternateName Lee Wan-yong NERFINISHED
Yi Wan-yong NERFINISHED
birthDate 1858-07-17
birthPlace Gyeonggi Province NERFINISHED
Joseon NERFINISHED
burialPlace Seoul NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath illness
collaboratedWith Empire of Japan NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Japanese Korea NERFINISHED
Joseon NERFINISHED
Korean Empire NERFINISHED
deathDate 1926-02-12
deathPlace Japanese Korea NERFINISHED
Keijō NERFINISHED
educatedAt Baejae Hakdang NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Korean
historicalReputation traitor in Korean historiography
knownFor collaboration with Imperial Japan
role in the loss of Korean sovereignty
signing the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty of 1910
languageSpoken Japanese
Korean
memberOf Korean Empire government NERFINISHED
Privy Council of the Korean Empire NERFINISHED
name Yi Wan-yong NERFINISHED
notableEvent Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty of 1910 NERFINISHED
Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 NERFINISHED
notableWork Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty of 1910 NERFINISHED
opposedBy Korean independence activists
Korean nationalist movement NERFINISHED
politicalAlignment pro-Japanese
positionHeld Interior Minister of the Korean Empire NERFINISHED
Minister of Agriculture, Commerce and Industry of the Korean Empire NERFINISHED
Minister of Education of the Korean Empire
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Korean Empire
Prime Minister of the Korean Empire
member of the Privy Council of the Korean Empire
received Count title in the Japanese kazoku peerage
Marquess title in the Korean Empire
Order of the Paulownia Flowers NERFINISHED
Order of the Plum Blossom NERFINISHED
Order of the Rising Sun NERFINISHED
religion Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism
significantEvent forced Emperor Sunjong to sign the annexation treaty
spouse Min Hong-sun NERFINISHED

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Annexation of Korea signedBy Yi Wan-yong