Geumju (modern Gimhae) is at the mouth of the Nakdong, on the old Gaya ground, and was Silla's Geumgwan, one of the five secondary capitals [not yet checked against the source].
The campaign board makes it the licensed gate of the Japan trade: Tsushima and Hakata men come with sulphur, swords and timber (Japanese traders), kept in a guest house at the edge of the interior. No Japanese raid is recorded before 1223 [not yet checked against the source]; the first one in the Goryeosa lands at Geumju. On the likely course the rising of Jinju spreads to Geumju in 1200 (English Wikipedia list, as we noted).
Who holds it
- Title
- Magistrate of Geumju (name not known)
- Confidence
- low
No source we could read names the holder in 1200
Lord in 1200
The Geumju magistrate (name not known) and the port's guest-house officers
Overlord
the king at Gaegyeong, in fact Choe Chung-heon
How things stand that morning
Open and quiet; the rising comes in the spring.
Council
Magistrate, clerks and the officers of the guest house.
Communities
Japanese visitors under licence (not settlers).
Militia
A garrison; no numbers.
Trade and crafts
The licensed trade with Tsushima and Hakata: sulphur, mother-of-pearl, swords and timber in; rice, cloth and books out [not yet checked against the source].
What the year holds
What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.
In 1200
- Sinjong 3, about the 4th lunar month (about April to May 1200)The Jinju rising spreads to Geumju.Depends on: The Jinju rising begins Stopped by: Its quick end
Later, on the likely course
- 1223The first recorded Japanese raid on the Goryeo coast lands at Geumju [not yet checked against the source].Depends on: A later change in the Japanese west Stopped by: Not in play before 1223
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The campaign board entry and recollection; the rising from a Wikipedia list.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: Seeds round the town.
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)
- 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.