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Imperial Heir of Sadong Palace | |
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Successor of Prince Imperial Ui, Yi Kang | |
Period | 11 September 1961 – present |
Predecessor | Yi Gon |
Born | Deoksu Palace, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea | 11 September 1961
Spouse | Kim, Sung Ja |
Issue | Yi Bum Yi Baek |
Father | Yi Gon |
Mother | Hwang, Gyeong Saeng |
Yi Jun | |
Hangul | 이 |
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Revised Romanization | I Jun |
McCune–Reischauer | Yi Jun |
Yi Jun (Korean: 이준; 11 September 1961) is a great-grandson of the Emperor Gojong of Korea and the first grandson of Prince Imperial Ui, Yi Kang. He is the successor of Sadonggung-the palace of Prince Imperial Ui.
He has worked as senior engineer at several multinational medical equipment manufacturers. He was born as the eldest son of Yi Gon, the heir of Prince Imperial Ui, Yi Kang at Deoksu Palace, Seoul.
After the death of Yi Ku, Yi Jun was one of the candidate to be adopted to Yi Ku along with his younger cousin brother, Yi Won. Since Yi Jun had to inherit the imperial lineage of Prince Imperial Ui, the second prince of Emperor Gojong, Yi Won-Yi Jun's younger cousin brother-was adopted heir to Yi Ku by the Jeonju Lee Royal Family Association
Prince Imperial Ui Memorial Foundation
editAs head of the Prince Imperial Ui's family, along with the eldest member of the Korean Imperial Family and Yi Jun's aunt, Yi Haegyeong, Yi Jun founded Prince Imperial Ui Memorial Foundation (의친왕기념사업회) in 2022. The mission statement of the foundation is to host a series of museum exhibitions of the imperial artifacts, art performances, and academic forums and symposiums to discover his grandfather, Prince Imperial Ui's independence movement activities.
One of the most important mission statements of the foundation is to restore Sadonggung Palace- the palace of Prince Imperial Ui, built in 1905 but destroyed in 2005 to build a public parking space in Insadong area by Seoul metropolitan government.
From October 2022 to January 2023, Yi Jun and his cousin brother, Yi Young-joo has collected a large number of imperial artifacts by Prince Imperial Ui around the world and organized a special exhibition titled <His Imperial Highness Prince Imperial Ui and the independence movement against Japanese colonization by Korean imperial family> at Kyungwoon Museum.
Kyungwoon Museum is the first high-school founded museum that was owned by Gyeonggi Girls High School, founded by the emperor Sunjong of Korea.
On the 24 of October 2022, Yi Jun has organized an academic symposium titled <Prince Imperial Ui and the imperial family's independence movement by Korean Imperial Family>.
There were six presenters; Professor Lee, Taejin at Seoul National University, Professor Jeon, Byeong-jun at Ewha Women's University, Professor Ban, Byeong-ryul at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, HRH Yi Jun, HRH Yi Haegyeong, and Yi Young-joo, secretary general of Prince Imperial Ui Memorial foundation.
Prince Imperial Ui Memorial Foundation forms a group of descendents of Korean Imperial Family to promote the imperial culture to the general public in Korean and to the world.
Family
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Yi Jun is the successor of Prince Imperial Ui, the second prince of Emperor Gojong. Prince Imperial Ui had 12 sons and 9 daughters.
Sons 1. Yi Geon was naturalized as Japanese citizen in 1947 and changed the name to Momoyama Kenichi(桃山虔一). 2. Yi U was adopted as the heir to Yi Junyong 3. Yi Bang was adopted as the heir to Crown Prince Soheon 4. Yi Chang was adopted as the heir to Prince Eunjeon. 5. Yi Ju was adopted as the heir to Grand Prince Inpyeong. 6. Yi Gon is Yi Jun's father and is the successor of Prince Imperial Ui 7. Yi Gwang was adopted as the heir to Prince Namyeon. 8. Yi Hyun 9. Yi Gap, his son Yi Won was adopted as heir to Yi KU 10. Yi Seok 11. Yi Hwan 12. Yi Jeong
Daughters 1. Yi Hae-wan 2. Yi Hae-won 3. Yi Hae-chun 4. Yi Hae-suk 5. Yi Hae-gyeong 6. Yi Hui-ja 7. Yi Hae-ran 8. Yi Hae-ryun 9. Yi Chang-hui
Yi Jun's 9th uncle, Yi Gap's son, Yi Won was adopted to Yi Ku, the son of Prince Imperial Yeong, third prince of Emperor Gojong.
Yi Jun has two sons- Yi Bum and Yi Baek and lives with his family in an apartment in Sanggye-dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul, South Korea.
Ancestry
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Patrilineal descent
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See also
editReferences
editExternal links
edit- Yi Jun, the chairman of Prince Imperial Ui Memorial Foundation is to reveal the forgotten history of his grandfather.
- Prince Imperial Ui foundation to cooperate with the city of Sejong to make a royal heritage city.
Category:House of Yi
Category:1961 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Seoul
Category:Korean princes
Category:Korea National Open University alumni