Jungjong coup

Coup of 1506
Date 2 September 1506 Location Hanyang, Joseon (now Seoul, South Korea) Result Successful Coup King Yeonsan deposed and exiled to Ganghwado. Grand Prince Jinseong assumes the throne as King Jungjong. Jang Nok-su and other officials sympathetic to the King are executed. Reopening the Seonggyungwan, royal university, and the Office of Censors.
Belligerents
Joseon Insugrents led by Park Won-jong and Seong Hui-ahn	Joseon Government
Commanders and leaders
Park Won-jong Seong Hui-ahn Yoo Soon-jeong Hong Gyeong-ju	King Yeonsan Jang Nok-su  Im Sa-hong † Yoo Ja-gwang (defected)

In 1506, the 12th year of King Yeonsan, a group of officials – notably Park Won-jong, Seong Hui-ahn, Yoo Soon-jeong and Hong Gyeong-ju plotted against the despotic ruler. They launched a coup on 2 September 1506, deposing the king and replacing him with his half-brother, Grand Prince Jinseong. The king was demoted to prince, and sent into exile on Ganghwado, where he died the same year after only a few weeks.^[1] Consort Jang Nok-su, who was regarded as a 'femme fatale' who had encouraged Yeonsangun's misrule, was beheaded, Yeonsangun's young sons were also killed.

See also

• Injo coup

References