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POV koreanruler| hangul=명성황후| hanja=明成皇后| rr=Myeongseong Hwang-hu| mr=Myŏngsŏng Hwang-hu| Her Majesty#Imperial_monarch.27s_address|Imperial Majesty Empress Myeongseong of Korea (????????????, October 19, 1851 – October 8, 1895), more commonly known as Queen Min (??????), was the last empress of Korea. She is recognized by the Korean people as a heroine, equivalent to France's Joan of Arc. Empress Myeongseong was the wife of Emperor Gojong of Korea| Emperor Gojong of the Joseon Dynasty of the Korean Empire|Daehan Empire. During her life as empress, she strived diplomatically and politically to keep Korea independent of foreign influence. She is credited for introducing new Western technologies, such as trains, telephones, streetcars, and electric light|electrical lights. She also proved herself brilliant when handling foreign affairs, as shown when she summoned the help of Russia and the Qing Dynasty of China to block the Japanese from taking over Korea, which was within considerable influence of Tokyo's japanese expansionism|imperialistic ambitions. The Japanese, Emperor Meiji in particular, viewed her as an obstacle. However, efforts to neutralize her or to remove her from Korea's government continuously failed due to Emperor Gojong's devotion. The Japanese resorted to sending ambassadors to Korea's royal court, but such efforts were eventually repelled, again by Empress Myeongseong. As a result, the Japanese minister to Korea, Miura Goro, faced with losing Korea, hired assassins to invade Gyeongbokgung |Gyeongbok Palace, the Korean imperial residence, and kill the empress in 1895. Two of the Japanese assassins were allegedly Shigeaki Kunitomo and Kakitsu Ieiri. http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200505/kt2005051017071968040.htm Increasingly, other figures that were involved in this event are coming to light. The mercenary killers raped and slaughtered three women suspected of being Queen Min, and when they verified which was the Queen they raped her and they desecrated her body, displayed it in a small circle, cut it to pieces, and then burned the corpse. Other witness accounts indicate she was raped then burned alive. Other accounts claim that she was stabbed and stomped on, or that she was not raped, but instead had her genitals molested posthumously. http://www.kimsoft.com/2002/jp-rape.htm These criminal acts were witnessed by Russian architects and one of the guards named Sabatin and other foreign officials, who protested heavily. To appease these protests, and other growing criticism worldwide, the Japanese government eventually brought Miura Goro and the other assassins to a criminal court. However, all were cleared of murder charges on the grounds of a lack of clear-cut evidence. Emperor Gojong, enraged over the event, posthumously awarded his late wife the title "Myeongseong" and enshrined her in Jongmyo, Korea's state shrine. She is the only empress enshrined in Jongmyo; all other females are queens.
Category:1851 births|Min of Joseon Category:1895 deaths|Min of Joseon Category:Assassinated people|Min of Joseon Category:Empresses|Min of Joseon Category:Joseon rulers|Min of Joseon Category:Murdered royalty|Min of Joseon es:Emperatriz Myeonseong de Joseon ko:???????????? ja:?????? zh:???????????? This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Empress Myeongseong of Korea".
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