In Sinjong 2 (1199) the east-coast people of Myeongju (Gangneung) rose; the campaign board adds Samcheok, and says the risings were bought off rather than broken.
The Chinese Wikipedia list gives Myeongju; we could not confirm Samcheok or the buying-off. The risers' ground is the hill country of the Taebaek behind the coast road, where a force from the capital cannot easily go and where tax grain is hard to collect. On 1 January 1200 the state's writ here is uncertain: the coast towns have their magistrates, the hills are the unsettled belt.
Nobody raids in the sense of a war: the contest is between a weak government and its own people. We mark it as contested, with low confidence.
How things stand that morning
Quiet but resentful (not confirmed).
Threats
- A renewed rising when the tax is levied
- The state's failure to answer it
Who raids whom
The risers on the coast road and the tax collectors, if the campaign board is right; no named band or leader.
Anchors on each side
Government: Myeongju (Gangneung) and Samcheok. Risers: the hills behind them (no fort named).
Last campaign
The risings of 1199 (Sinjong 2), month not pinned; how they ended is not confirmed.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: One line in the Chinese Wikipedia list and the campaign board; no leader or month is known.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: Rough six-point polygon; draw faintly.
Primary sources for Goryeo
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Essentials of the History of Goryeo, Kim Jong-seo (金宗瑞) and the Joseon history office (1452). The chronological companion to the Goryeosa, finished a year after it and drawing on the same lost records, sometimes with entries the Goryeosa omits. Read online
- Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, Bi Yuan (畢沅), completed by Feng Jiwu after his death (late eighteenth century, finished after 1801, from Song and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's continuous month-by-month chronicle of the Song and Yuan centuries, compiled from the Song shi, the Liao, Jin and Yuan histories, Li Tao, Li Xinchuan and other Song sources. Read online
- History of Goryeo, Jeong Inji (鄭麟趾), Kim Jong-seo (金宗瑞) and the Joseon history office (completed 1451, from the Goryeo veritable records and earlier drafts). The official history of Goryeo, compiled by the Joseon state from the lost Goryeo veritable records. Read online
- History of the Jin, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers (1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history). The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria in 1200. Read online
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
- Draft Compilation of the Collected Statutes of the Song, Various; the Song huiyao were compiled by the Song state, the surviving draft reassembled by Xu Song from the Yongle dadian in the nineteenth century (the original Song compilations date from the eleventh to the thirteenth century; the surviving extracts were recovered in 1809 to 1820 and printed in 1936). Dated extracts from the Song government's own statute collections, arranged by office. Read online
- Description of the Foreign Peoples (Chau Ju-kua), Zhao Rukuo (趙汝适) (about 1225, while superintendent of maritime trade at Quanzhou). The Song customs officer's survey of the overseas world, compiled from merchants and from Zhou Qufei, a generation after 1200 but describing trade routes that were the same in 1200. Read online
- Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country (Yi Gyu-bo), Yi Gyu-bo (李奎報) (poems and prose from the 1190s to 1241; collected and printed by his son in 1241, with a supplement in 1242). The collected poems, letters, memorials and essays of a Goryeo scholar who was thirty-two and still seeking office in 1200. Read online
2 more in the sources library for Korea and Japan.
Sources and studies
- Goryeo Sinjong 高麗神宗 (Chinese Wikipedia)
- Cui Zhongxian 崔忠獻 (Chinese Wikipedia)
- Goryeosa, Goryeosa jeoryo, Samguk yusa, Lee Ki-baik, Shultz: not opened in this run (Wikisource could not be reached); facts marked recollection come from these as remembered
- Sheet brief KJA_BRIEF.md and the OMNIA board notes (leads, not sources)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.