Yoo Gil-choon

Japanese: 兪吉濬 - ユ・ギルチュン

Year of death: September 30, 1914
Year of birth: Cheoljong 7.9.25 (1856.10.23)
An enlightened politician in the late Joseon Dynasty of Korea. His Japanese name is Yu Kishun. His pen name was Kokudang. He studied under Park Gye-su and was devoted to enlightened thought, studying in Japan and the United States. He returned to Korea in 1885, but was imprisoned as a member of the enlightened movement. During this time, he wrote "The Travels to the West," an introduction to Western affairs based on his experience studying abroad. During the Gabo Reforms (1894), he was a central figure in the Kim Hong-jip cabinet and worked hard for the reforms. When the Kim Hong-jip cabinet collapsed with Gojong's escape to the Russian embassy in 1896, he went into exile in Japan, and after returning to Korea in 1907, he launched a patriotic enlightenment movement outside of the government through the Heungsadan and Hanseong Buminhwae. He was awarded a baronial title when Korea was annexed by Japan in 1910, but declined. A politician who was frustrated by his ideal of enlightening Korea. <Works> "Yu Gil-jun Complete Works" <References> "The Reform Thoughts of Modern Korea" by Kang Jae-eun

(Moriyama Shigenori)

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没年：大正3.9.30(1914)
生年：哲宗7.9.25(1856.10.23)
朝鮮李朝末期の開化派政治家。日本語読みは「ゆ・きっしゅん」。号は矩堂。朴珪寿に師事して開化思想に傾倒し,日本・アメリカに留学する。高宗22(1885)年に帰国するが,開化派の一味として幽閉される。この間,留学経験をもとに西洋事情を紹介した『西遊見聞』を著す。甲午改革(1894)では金弘集内閣の中心人物として,改革に尽力した。高宗のロシア公使館への脱出(1896)で金弘集内閣が崩壊するや日本に亡命し,隆煕1(1907)年に帰国後は在野で興士団,漢城府民会を通じて愛国啓蒙運動を展開した。日韓併合(1910)の際に男爵を授与されたが辞退した。朝鮮の開化を理想として挫折した政治家。<著作>『兪吉濬全書』<参考文献>姜在彦『近代朝鮮の変革思想』

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