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Choe Chung-heon
Choe Chung-heon (최충헌, 1149–1219) was a Goryeo general who seized power in a 1196 coup, founding a military dictatorship that deposed kings and lasted roughly sixty years.
Choe Chung-heon's coup
Choe Chung-heon's coup was the 1196 seizure of power in the Goryeo kingdom by general Choe Chung-heon, who killed the military strongman Yi Ui-min and forced King Myeongjong to abdicate.
Choe Eon-wi
Choe Eon-wi (최언위, 868–944) was a Korean civil official and writer who served Silla, then Goryeo, where he tutored the crown prince and drafted state documents.
Choe family dictatorship
The Choe family dictatorship was a hereditary military government in Goryeo, Korea, ruling through puppet kings from 1196 to 1258 under Choe Chungheon and his heirs.
Choe Han-gi
Choe Han-gi (최한기, 崔漢綺; 1803–1877) was a late Joseon Korean scholar who founded gihak, a qi-based philosophy systematizing Western science, and is regarded as the last Silhak scholar.
Choe Hang
Choe Hang (최항) was the third ruler of the Choe military regime of Goryeo, holding power from 1249 until his death in 1257 and continuing resistance against the Mongol invasions from Ganghwa Island.
Choe Ik-hyeon
Choe Ik-hyeon (최익현; 1833–1906), pen name Myeonam, was a Korean Confucian scholar-official who memorialized against the 1876 Japan–Korea Treaty and the 1905 Eulsa Treaty, and raised an armed uprising in 1906 at age 74.
Choe Je-u
Choe Je-u (최제우, 崔濟愚), pen name Su-un, was a Korean religious leader who founded Donghak in 1860 and was executed by the Joseon state in 1864.
Choe Jin-dong
Choe Jin-dong (최진동) was a Korean independence army commander in Gando, Manchuria, who led the Battle of Bongodong against the Japanese army in June 1920 and died in 1941.
Choe Man-ri
Choe Man-ri (최만리, 崔萬理, died 1445) was a scholar-official of early Joseon Korea who served in the Hall of Worthies under King Sejong and led the 1444 memorial opposing the Korean alphabet.
Choe Mu-seon
Choe Mu-seon (최무선, died 1395) was a Goryeo military official and inventor who established gunpowder production in Korea, founding the Hwatongdogam office in 1377.
Choe Nam-seon
Choe Nam-seon (최남선, pen name Yukdang) was a Korean historian, poet, and publisher who founded Korea's first modern magazine and drafted the 1919 Declaration of Independence.
Choe Rin
Choe Rin (최린, 1878–1958) was a Korean Cheondogyo religious leader, journalist, and politician, a signatory of the 1919 Declaration of Independence who later became a pro-Japanese collaborator.
Choe Ryong-hae (최룡해)
Choe Ryong-hae (최룡해), North Korean politician, KPA General Political Department director 2012-2014, WPK Organization and Guidance Department director 2018, SPA Standing Committee chairman 2019-2026, replaced by Jo Yong-won and dropped from the Central Committee in 2026.
Choe Sa-gyu
Choe Sa-gyu (최사전, 1077–1139) was a royal physician at the Goryeo court who ended the 1126 rebellion of Yi Ja-gyeom by driving a wedge between Yi and his military ally Cheok Jun-gyeong.
Choe Seungno
Choe Seungno (최승로, 927–989) was a civil official and chancellor of early Goryeo, best known for his 28-article Confucian reform memorial submitted to King Seongjong in 982.
Choe Si-hyeong
Choe Si-hyeong (1827–1898) was the second leader of Donghak, a Korean religious movement founded by Choe Je-u, whom he rebuilt in hiding before being executed in 1898.
Choe U
Choe U (최우), later renamed Choe I (최이), was the second ruler of Goryeo's Choe military regime from 1219 to 1249, moving the capital to Ganghwa Island in 1232 to resist the Mongol invasion.
Choe Ui
Choe Ui (died 1258) was the fourth and last ruler of Goryeo's Choe military regime, holding power from 1257 until killed in the Muso coup.
Choe Ui's assassination
Choe Ui's assassination (최의 피살) was the killing of Choe Ui, last ruler of Goryeo's Choe military regime, in 1258 by Kim Jun and Yu Gyeong, ending Choe family rule.
Choe Yeong
Choe Yeong (최영, 1316–1388) was a Goryeo general who repelled Japanese pirate and Red Turban invasions and was beheaded after the Wihwado Return of 1388.
Choe Yeong's campaigns against Japanese pirates
Choe Yeong's campaigns against Japanese pirates (최영의 왜구 토벌) were Goryeo military operations against the waegu raiders, best remembered for Choe Yeong's victory at Hongsan in 1376.
Choe Yong-gon
Choe Yong-gon (최용건) was a North Korean military leader who commanded the unified military headquarters in 1947 and served as Minister of National Defense during the Korean War.
Choe Yu-cheong
Choe Yu-cheong (최유청, 崔惟淸; 1093–1174) was a Goryeo civil official who served Kings Injong, Uijong, and Myeongjong, twice served as envoy, and survived the 1170 military coup.
Choe Yun-deok
Choe Yun-deok (최윤덕, 1376–1445) was a Korean military official of early Joseon who fought Japanese pirates at Tsushima in 1419, defeated the Jurchen in 1433, and served kings Taejong and Sejong.
Chōgen
Chōgen (重源, 1121–1206), also known as Shunjōbō Chōgen, was a Japanese Buddhist monk who served as chief fundraising commissioner for the reconstruction of Tōdai-ji in Nara after its destruction by fire in 1180.
Chögyam Trungpa
Chögyam Trungpa, also known as Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages who fled Tibet in 1959 and taught in the West.
Chohan family murders
Chohan family murders: the February 2003 killing of Amarjit Chohan, his wife Nancy, two infant sons, and Charanjit Kaur in west London by Kenneth Regan, William Horncy, and Peter Rees, who seized Ciba Freight for drug smuggling; whole life orders in 2005.
Choi Hang's coup against Choi Ui
Choi Hang's coup against Choi Ui, also called the Mu-o coup, was the killing of Choi Ui by officials led by Yu Gyeong, Kim Jun, and Im Yeon in 1258.
Choi Kyo-jin
Choi Kyo-jin is a South Korean politician and educator serving as Minister of Education, tapped by President Lee Jae Myung as his first education minister in 2025.