Hong Gyeong-rae's Rebellion

Japanese: 洪景来の反乱 - こうけいらいのはんらん

A popular uprising in 1812 at the end of the Yi Dynasty in Korea. It is also called the Pyongan Province Peasant War. Hong Gyeong-nae was a fallen yangban (a noble family) from Yonggang County, Pyongan Province, and was one of the ringleaders. He worked as a geomancer (fortune teller for burial sites) and spent nearly 10 years preparing for the uprising while wandering around the country gathering comrades. He issued a manifesto calling for the end of discrimination against people from Pyongan Province and for opposition to the autocratic rule of the young king's in-laws and relatives by marriage, and called for the overthrow of the central government. Ideologically, it was a fantasy in which a fictitious character named Jeong Si-su, a saint of the world, led 100,000 iron cavalrymen, the surviving descendants of Ming dynasty ministers, to purge the eastern part of Korea.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

朝鮮の李朝末期，1812年の民衆反乱。平安道農民戦争ともよぶ。洪景来は平安道竜岡郡の没落した両班（ヤンバン）の出身で，その主謀者の一人。地師(葬地を占う)を業とし，各地を放浪しながら同志を糾合して蜂起の準備に10年近くをかけた。平安道出身者に対する差別の打破，幼王の外戚や姻戚らによる専権政治反対を内容とする檄文を発し，中央政府の打倒をよびかけた。イデオロギー的には，済世の聖人鄭始守という架空の人物が，明の世臣遺孫の鉄騎10万を率いて東国(朝鮮)の粛正を行うという空想的なものであった。

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