Wihwado Retreat
Event · 11 June 1388 · North Korea, North Korea
In 1388 the general Yi Seong-gye, ordered to invade the Liaodong peninsula held by Ming China, turned back at Wihwa island in the Amnok (Yalu) river to Kaesong and staged a coup d’état1; four years later he founded the Joseon dynasty2. Wikipedia, Wihwado Retreat, “instead decided to turn back to Kaesong and stage a coup d'état”. ↩ Jane Portal 2000, p. 109. ↩ Literatur Jane Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000. Wikipedia, Wihwado Retreat: Anon., Wihwado Retreat, in: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wihwado_Retreat (zuletzt abgerufen am 30.10.2026).