O Yun-gyeom

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O Yun-gyeom
오윤겸
Left State Councillor
In office
21 October 1633 – 25 February 1636
Preceded byKim Ryu
Succeeded byHong Seo-bong
In office
12 October 1627 – 17 August 1628
Preceded bySin Heum
Succeeded byKim Ryu
Chief State Councillor
In office
16 December 1628 – 22 September 1631
Preceded bySim Heum
Succeeded byYun Bang
Right State Councillor
In office
20 November 1626 – 12 October 1627
Preceded bySim Heum
Succeeded byKim Ryu
Personal details
Born1559
Died25 February 1636(1636-02-25) (aged 76–77)
Korean name
Hangul
오윤겸
Hanja
吳允謙
Revised RomanizationO Yun-gyeom
McCune–ReischauerO Yun'gyŏm

O Yun-gyeom (1559–1636) was a Korean scholar-official and Chief State Councillor of the Joseon period.

He was also

Joseon interests in the 2nd Edo period diplomatic mission to the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.[1]

1617 mission to Japan

O Yun-gyeom was the leader selected by the Gwanghaegun of Joseon to head a mission to Japan in 1617.[2] The diplomatic mission functioned to the advantage of both the Japanese and the Koreans as a channel for developing a political foundation for trade.[3]

This delegation was explicitly identified by the Joseon court as a "Reply and Prisoner Repatriation Envoy" (회답겸쇄환사; 回答兼刷還使). The mission was not understood to signify that relations were "normalized."[4]

The Joseon monarch's ambassador and retinue traveled only as far as

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Toby, Ronald P. (1991). State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu, p. 70.
  2. ^ Walraven, Boudewijn et al. (2007). Korea in the middle: Korean studies and area studies, p. 361.
  3. ^ Walker, Brett L. "Foreign Affairs and Frontiers in Early Modern Japan: A Historiographical Essay", Early Modern Japan. Fall, 2002, pp. 48.
  4. ^ Lewis, James Bryant. (2003). Frontier contact between Chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan, pp. 21-24.
  5. ^ Toby, p. 105 n16.

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Preceded by Joseon–Japanese
Edo period diplomacy
2nd mission

1617
Succeeded by