The Kingdom of Joseon is a Korean kingdom founded by Yi Seonggye that lasts for approximately five centuries, from July 1392 to October 1897.
It is officially renamed the Korean Empire in October 1897.
It is founded following the aftermath of the overthrow of Goryeo in what is today the city of Kaesong.
Early on, Korea is retitled and the capital wis relocated to modern-day Seoul.
The kingdom's northernmost borders are expanded to the natural boundaries at the Yalu and Tumen Rivers through the subjugation of the Jurchens.
Joseon is the last dynasty of Korea and its longest-ruling Confucian dynasty.During its reign, Joseon encourages the entrenchment of Chinese Confucian ideals and doctrines in Korean society.
Neo-Confucianism is installed as the new dynasty's state ideology.
Buddhism is accordingly discouraged and occasionally faces persecutions by the dynasty.
Joseon consolidates its effective rule over the territory of current Korea and sees the height of classical Korean culture, trade, science, literature, and technology.
However, the dynasty is severely weakened during the late sixteenth and early seveneteenth centuries, when the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) and the first and second Manchu invasions of 1636 nearly overrun the Korean Peninsula, leading to an increasingly harsh isolationist policy for which the country becomes known as the "hermit kingdom".
After the end of invasions from Manchuria, Joseon experiences a nearly two hundred-year period of peace.However, whatever power the kingdom recovers during its isolation further wanes as the eighteenth century draws to a close, and faced with internal strife, power struggles, international pressure and rebellions at home, the Joseon dynasty declinesd rapidly in the late nineteenth century.The Joseon period has left a substantial legacy to modern Korea; much of modern Korean etiquette, cultural norms, societal attitudes towards current issues, and the modern Korean language and its dialects derive from the culture and traditions of Joseon.
