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General Yun Ung-nyeol or Yun Woong Niel (also known as Yun Ung-ryeol(윤웅렬, 1840-1911), was Joseon Dynasty and Korean Empire's soldier and politician. a member of Party Gaehwa(개화당;開化黨).
a Pro-Japanese scholar-bureaucrat of Joseon Dynasty and the Korean Empire in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. a penname was Bangye(반계, 磻溪).
Biography
Yun Ung-nyeol was a member of one of the prominent yangban families of Korea. His family was considered wealthy. but he was illegitimate child of his father. In 1857, Yun passed the military examination(무과; 武科).
he was long times Movementing of member Party Gaehwa with Kim Ok-gyun and Hong Yeongsik.
In 1904, Yun Ung-nyeol was the Korea's Minister of War. 1911 died, aged 71.
In modern Korean historiography, General Yun has been designated one of the Chinilpa or pro-Japanese activists of the 1900s (decade).
