Story of royal family in Korea

Hello, this is Junho Lee. Today Since you've not been satisfied with the places that I've been introducing you to so today I'm just I'll introduce a little bit about like next story How especially how our dynasty ended and what happened to this royal family So today I will focus on stories about those royal family in the end of dynasty Okay, so we have to go to main palaces. One is the Changdeokgung, one is the Deokseonggung But first, let's go to Changdeokgung. Let's go. So we're here in Changdeokgung palace This palace is only UNESCO palace in Korea. There are many reasons why it's Designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage site But one of the reason is that this is the well the most well-preserved palace That's because our last king actually have lived here and died here since from 1907 to 1926 So this is the best place if you want to see the lifestyle or of the last king So that's the main reason we came here to see the our last Royal family. Okay, so let's go find out Okay, so we had a king 1907 but he had he was forced to resign by Japanese. So his son Become a king 1907. So the the king who resigned or living in Deokseonggung palace but the His son who later become a king in 1907 actually come to this Changdeokgung palace and be living here Until he passed away in 1926. So I'm right here in a place called Daejojeon is where they actually live Especially when you come here we have to see this building it's called Heungbokjeon This is the place 1910 Right before Korea become colonized by Japan our royal family and all these officers had a meeting right here in this place And 1909 this king actually had to travel all throughout the South Korea for two weeks I think it was also used used by Japan because Japanese wanted to tell everybody That Korea is occupied by Japan and then like Japan is taking care of Like Korea very well, so he had to go travel all those cities in Korea for two weeks But he when he travels there. There's The one who's in charge of Korea the Japanese. His name is Ito Hirobumi He was actually with him so whenever he visits the cities, but he didn't instead of him but the Japanese guy Ito Hirobumi was actually speaking in public Mainly telling people that this king has been taken care of well by this Japanese So do you people don't worry about it Japanese are will take care of Korea very well so he I guess he was used by this guy as a Method to tell people that Korea is okay do you understand I Explain it now, but I don't even know if I understand well, but anyway So that happened so he went to the Seoul station to take a train to visit all the cities in Korea So later we'll visit the Seoul station. I would I'd like to show you Seoul station There's also one of the really important and I come Events took place there in 1920. All right, so Let's go so The place we just visited is called Daejojeon, but there was a fire in 1917 so The king actually escaped so he went to the place called Yeongyeongdang which is located in a garden area Stayed here for several days until this this building is repaired for king to stay So he moved here for for two years until the Daejojeon is fully restored But what happened was when he came to the Yeongyeongdang the place in the garden escaped the fire What happened was he didn't bring anything from the palace. He did not bring any any any anything So he had nothing no no dishware and no clothings. No blanket. So it was very cold So it was the emergency so he had to go The queen's family houses and then the king's father's house Which is the Deoksugung to borrow like dishwares and clothings and blankets So he can survive this Korea brutal winter Do you understand? It's a good place So he stayed here for two years. So let's go see what's Like what it's like to be here for two years. All right, we're gonna go see the real actual place Of Korea, let's go Okay, so we are here inside of Naksunje So this is where Sunjong the last king lived for two years until the Daejojeon main living place is restored But also his stepbrother and his stepsister had to go to Japan and they actually lived there until 1963 and when they come back to Korea, they have no else to stay so that they actually stay here So we have seen these places in Changdeokgung, this is a place where you can see the life of Sunjong which is the last king of our dynasty But also in the end after Korea becoming independent their stepbrother and stepsister actually came back to Korea and lived here So this is the places And so it's a very sad place it's more like a Prison for them because they were not able to do anything except staying here and this palace until they passed away and sometimes When Japanese asked them to do something and then they have to do something Like for example the stepbrother stepsister they didn't want to leave Korea But they have to go to Japan because Japanese forced them to go to Japan and they got married to Japanese as a part of Korea being united to with Japan and also this last king Sunjong like I told you they went to Korea all of the Korea to talk with this guy in charge of the Japanese guy in charge of Korea but also 1917 he had to go to Japan to meet the Japanese Emperor and to pay the visit to the Japanese Emperor the palace this Happened that's that thing never happened throughout the Korean history We never ever Korean King ever visited China to pay her to pay his visits But this time Korean King 1917 he went to Japan for almost like two weeks He visited a lot of places It's a very sad history So When we go to Japan he went to Seoul Station and take a train to Busan from there went to Japan So Seoul Station later, we'll go check it out But until now so I've been explaining to you all those put all those history and story. Do you understand? I hope you do We're visiting Deoksugung Palace. We can find some life of our second to the last king which of which his name was Gojong Let's go We came here Deoksugung Palace The palace where you can see the life of our second to the last king whose name was Gojong I'm gonna show you the life of Gojong So we're here in Deoksugung Palace, which is really beautiful palace But let me briefly introduce this palace to you So when we invaded by Japan 400 years ago whole palace was burned So king when left the Seoul and he come when he come back. There's no palaces to live. So he Came here to live. So that's when it become palace, but this was the house of one of the royal family But later the king's wife which was the Queen was assassinated by Japan Then King actually moved to Russian Embassy for one year and then after that he moved To this palace instead of moving back to the main palace, so that's when the history of Deoksugung Palace actually starts So here you can see the life of our second to the last king whose name was Gojong so we're gonna see some of the places where a lot of historical events happen here Let's Go find out. Okay Beautiful palace Let's go Okay, so episode 1 So these kings have tasted coffee, so it was a 1898 Was the birthday of the Gojong the second to the last king So next day a lot of people left but some of the family members still Here in this palace not this place, but this is also place where they have coffee, but not this place, but they said They've come they had a coffee, but immediately people said Oh King, please stop drinking it because the poison it's a poison so But actually they were okay, but except the crown prince at the time who later become the king he lost 18 teeth That's because he drank coffee Kkotbaegi, do you know what Kkotbaegi means? Kkotbaegi means like double like twice more quantity. So he drank the whole coffee So he poisoned coffee, so he lost 18 teeth So when he actually went to Japan to see the Emperor in Japan, so Emperor really they said Emperor was Too caring so they provide the food that is easy to choose because he had a problem with his teeth Do you understand? So Yeah that happened here So this is Hamnyeongjeon, this is where the second to the last king Gojong have lived and died He died actually 1919 January It was very sudden death because they said they had a Dinner and then like he was okay, but all of a sudden he just died at 1 a.m. They said he drank the like a Sikhye, which is a rice punch and he died all of a sudden. So a lot of people actually Believe that he has been murdered. That's because the day before he had a meeting with the people who's going to Japan to celebrate His son another son's wedding. It's getting married to Japanese lady, but he's totally against it So maybe that's why people poison him So anyway, he had a meeting with the people who's going to Japan to celebrate the wedding and then one week later This other son was supposed to get married in Japan, but then he died in here So king passed away so they were they were going to have a funeral 3rd of March in 1919 So two days before 1st of March 1919 There were literally hundreds of people thousands of people here Some people say 15,000 people were here and then about thousand people were inside the palace to see him For the last time so a lot of people are here like crying out loud a lot of people actually holding the flag the flag say Independence of Korea so even some of the people inside like Thought Korea become independent, but it was actually not but anyway, a lot of people were very sad So we came here to see him for the last time Okay. So this is a Seoul station when our king last king went went to all this Cities in Korea and went to Japan He always used to he always come here to take a train to Busan or other cities in Korea. So this is a Seoul station And also one more thing this is a Kang Woo-kyu He is a grandpa, but in 1920 when the third governor of Japanese governor Who's who's coming to Korea from Japan? He was here. He knew that he's coming So he threw the bomb at him, but he missed it. So he survived. So after that he was captured he was sent to The Sodom and prison and he was executed But he was a grandpa, but he know that this is wrong Japan occupying Korea. So he wanted to Punish this governor who's coming to Korea Thank you very much for watching my video, I hope you're satisfied You're not satisfied. I Understand this time. I'm also not satisfied This is like really first time for me to really explain the like a history or like stories about those places It's really not easy to like deliver the stories So I'm not satisfied you're not satisfied this time. Okay, I understand See you again with another place of interest or another story interesting story about Korea. Thank you. Bye