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Lee Wan-yong (Korean: 이완용; pronounced [iː wɐȵoŋ]; 17 July 1858 – 12 February 1926), also spelled Yi Wan-yong or Ye Wan-yong, was a Korean politician who served as the 7th Prime Minister of Korea. He was pro-Japanese and is best remembered for signing the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, which placed Korea under Japanese rule in 1910.
The five officials were Education Minister Lee Wan-yong, Army Minister Yi Geun-taek, Interior Minister Yi Ji-yong [ ko], Foreign Affairs Minister Pak Chesoon, and Agriculture, Commerce, and Industry Minister Gwon Jung-hyeon . Initially, all of the ministers were against signing the treaty.
Lee Wan-yong, also spelled Yi Wan-yong or Ye Wan-yong, was a Korean politician who served as the 7th Prime Minister of Korea. He was pro-Japanese and is best remembered for signing the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, which placed Korea under Japanese rule in 1910.
Jun 12, 2008 · Lee Wan-yong is an infamous name every South Korean child knows. A royal court minister at the turn of the last century who helped Imperial Japan annex Korea as a colony, he is Korea’s No. 1...
Jun 11, 2008 · As every South Korean schoolchild knows, Lee Wan Yong was the infamous turn-of-the-century royal minister who helped Imperial Japan annex Korea as a colony - national traitor No. 1. The...
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Sep 20, 2023 · In a meeting of the party’s Supreme Council at the National Assembly Wednesday, Park said, “It was revealed that Shin defended the traitor Lee Wan-yong (Yi Wan-yong), who signed the forced Eulsa Treaty, saying, ‘In a way, he had no choice.’.
Jul 14, 2010 · Among those named in the commission's five-volume report is Lee Wan Yong, who signed the Japan-Korea Protectorate Treaty in 1905 that brought the peninsula under the control of Tokyo,...
