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Yi Eonjeok

Yi Eonjeok, known by his pen name Hoejae (1491–1553), was a Joseon Neo-Confucian scholar and Left State Councillor who passed his li-centered doctrine to Yi Hwang.

Yi Eve Sun

Yi Eve Sun (孙毅) is a neuroscientist who studies neural stem cells and Rett syndrome, and created the first gene-edited monkey model of the disorder in 2017.

Yi Gae

Yi Gae (이개, 1417–1456) was a Joseon scholar-official in the Hall of Worthies who tutored King Danjong and was executed in 1456 for plotting his restoration.

Yi Go

Yi Go (이고), died 1171, was a Goryeo military officer who helped lead the 1170 coup that overthrew King Uijong and began military government; killed by Yi Ui-bang.

Yi Gok

Yi Gok (이곡, 1298–1351) was a late Goryeo scholar-official who served both Goryeo and Yuan, known for his 1335 memorial against tribute girls and father of Yi Saek.

Yi Gwal

Yi Gwal (이괄, 李适) was a Joseon military commander who, resenting his reward for the 1623 Injo coup, raised 10,000 troops in rebellion in 1624.

Yi Gwang (Joseon general)

Yi Gwang (이광, 李洸, 1541–1607) was a Joseon civil official and governor of Jeolla Province who led a three-province army defeated at the Battle of Yongin in 1592, then helped halt the Japanese drive into Honam.

Yi Gyu-bo

Yi Gyu-bo (이규보, 1168–1241) was a Goryeo civil official, chancellor, and poet, regarded as the dynasty's foremost writer, who drafted Goryeo's diplomatic letters to the Mongols in the 1230s.

Yi Hang-bok

Yi Hang-bok (이항복, Baeksa, 1556–1618) was a Joseon civil official who served as Chief State Councillor and bore much of the burden of wartime diplomacy with Ming China.

Yi Hang-ro

Yi Hang-ro (이항로; pen name Hwaseo, 1792–1868) was a Joseon-dynasty Neo-Confucian scholar whose wijong cheoksa thought, defending Confucian orthodoxy against the West, later fed Korea's independence movement.

Yi Hoe-young

Yi Hoe-young (이회영, pen name Udang) was a Korean independence activist who co-founded Sinminhoe, led his family into exile in Manchuria, and died in Japanese custody in 1932.

Yi Hou

Yi Hou is a perovskite solar cell researcher and Presidential Young Professor at the National University of Singapore, known for record perovskite/organic tandem cell efficiencies.

Yi Huang Tang

易黄汤 (Yi Huang Tang, Yellow-Transforming Decoction) is a Qing-dynasty TCM formula from Fu Shan's Fu Qing Zhu Nu Ke for kidney-deficiency damp-heat vaginal discharge, composed of stir-fried Chinese yam, euryale seed, phellodendron, plantain seed, and ginkgo seed.

Yi Hwang

Yi Hwang (이황), pen name Toegye, was a Joseon dynasty civil official and Neo-Confucian philosopher (1501 to 1570) who advised King Seonjo and, with Yi I, ranks among Korea's two most honored Confucian thinkers.

Yi I

Yi I (이이, 1536–1584), pen name Yulgok, was a Korean Joseon Neo-Confucian scholar and statesman who served King Seonjo and won first place in nine state examinations.

Yi I-myeong

Yi I-myeong (이이명, 李頤命, 1658–1722), pen name Sojae, was a Joseon civil official and scholar who served as Chief State Councillor and was executed in the 1722 Sinim sahwa purge.

Yi Ik

Yi Ik (이익, 1681–1763), pen name Seongho, was a Korean Confucian scholar of the late Joseon dynasty and a leading figure of the reform-minded Silhak movement.

Yi In-im

Yi In-im (이인임, ?–1388) was a Goryeo civil official who became the dominant power after King Gongmin's 1374 assassination, installing the boy King U and directing diplomacy toward Ming China and the Northern Yuan.

Yi In-jik

Yi In-jik (이인직, 1862–1916), pen name Gukcho, was a Korean novelist and journalist known for Tears of Blood (1906), regarded as the first sinsoseol in Korean literature.

Yi In-jwa

Yi In-jwa (이인좌, 1695–1728) was a Korean royal descendant who led the Musin Rebellion of 1728, an attempt to depose King Yeongjo and entrone Milpung-gun Yi Tan; captured within two weeks, he was executed for treason.

Yi In-jwa Rebellion

The Yi In-jwa Rebellion (이인좌의 난), also called the Musin Rebellion, was a failed 1728 attempt by excluded factions to overthrow King Yeongjo of Joseon.

Yi In-yeong

Yi In-yeong (이인영, 李麟榮, 1867–1909) was a Korean righteous-army commander born in Yeoju who led the Thirteen Provinces alliance of 1907 and was hanged at Gyeongseong Prison in 1909.

Yi Ja-chun

Yi Ja-chun (이자춘, 李子春), also known by the Mongol name Ulus Bukha, was a late Goryeo frontier general who recovered Ssangseong in 1356 and fathered King Taejo, founder of Joseon.

Yi Ja-gyeom

Yi Ja-gyeom (이자겸) was a Goryeo civil official who, as the maternal grandfather of King Injong, dominated the court from 1122 to 1126 and fell to a military coup.

Yi Ja-gyeom's Rebellion

Yi Ja-gyeom's Rebellion (이자겸의 난) was a 1126 revolt in Korea's Goryeo dynasty, in which the royal in-law Yi Ja-gyeom seized the palace and confined King Injong before being exiled.

Yi Je-hyeon

Yi Je-hyeon (이제현, 1287–1367) was a Goryeo scholar-official, statesman, and poet who served four terms as head of government and stopped Yuan plans to absorb Goryeo.

Yi Jeong

Yi Jeong (이정, 李霆; pen name Taneun) was a mid-Joseon dynasty poet, calligrapher, and painter, a great-great-grandson of King Sejong and the most renowned Korean master of ink bamboo painting.

Yi Ji-ran

Yi Ji-ran (이지란, 1331–1402), originally the Jurchen Kurun Turan Temur, naturalized in Goryeo in 1371 and became a founding merit subject of the Joseon dynasty under Yi Seong-gye.

Yi Jian Mei: Boat Crossing Wujiang

"Yi Jian Mei: Boat Crossing Wujiang" (一剪梅·舟过吴江) is a ci poem by Southern Song poet Jiang Jie, written after his boat passed through Wujiang county near Lake Tai.

Yi Jianlian (易建联)

Yi Jianlian (易建联), Chinese 7-foot power forward born 1987, sixth pick of the 2007 NBA Draft (Bucks, Nets, Wizards, Mavericks), 7-time CBA champion with Guangdong, four-time Olympian, retired August 2023.