The Joseon Dynasty was the last unified feudal dynasty in the history of the Korean Peninsula, which was established in 1392 by Lee Sung-gyu instead of Goryeo and changed the name of the country to Joseon, with the capital at Seoul. In 1897, Gojong Lee Hee called the emperor the Korean Empire, and in 1910 Japan annexed the Korean Peninsula, the Korean Empire and the Joseon Dynasty fell, and the 27th monarch, 519 years.
The last monarch in the history of the Korean Peninsula, Li Tao was the son of Emperor Gojong of Joseon, Lee Hee and Empress Myeongseong. In 1875, he was crowned Wang Shizi, and in 1907, Emperor Gaozong abdicated, and Li Tao took the throne, changing the yuan to "Longxi". On August 22, 1910, Japan forced Korea to sign the Treaty of Annexation between Japan and South Korea, and the Korean Empire collapsed. On August 29, Li Tu abdicated and was demoted to the post of King Li of Changdeokgung Palace. He died in 1926 at the age of fifty-three.
Li Yan was the seventh son of Emperor Gojong of Joseon, Lee Hee, and was born to the noble concubine Yan of the Pure Sacrifice Emperor. At the age of 10, he became the "Crown Prince" of his elder brother Junjong and was sent to Japan to study, and at the age of 13, Japan and Korea merged, and he was demoted to the title of Li Wangshizi of Changdeokgung Palace, enjoying the treatment of the Japanese imperial family, and later married the Japanese imperial woman Ir honggong Fangzi (Li Fangzi), and in 1926 he took the title of Li Wang of Changdeokgung Palace. After Japan's surrender, the imperial status was abolished, and the president of the Republic of Korea at the time, Syngman Rhee, was worried about his status as a former imperial prince, fearing that he would return to China to seize the throne, and even did not give him Korean nationality, until after the fall of Syngman Rhee, he returned to Korea from Japan as a civilian.
Li Jiu, the last direct heir of the Li dynasty, was the son of Li Yan and Li Fangzi. Li Jiu had no biological children, and before his death, he signed and agreed to establish his nephew Li Yuan as the heir. Li Yuan's succession was opposed by his aunt Lee Hae-yeon and his uncle Lee Seok, both of whom were descendants of Lee Woo, the fifth son of Emperor Gojong of Joseon.
On September 29, 2006, Lee Hae-woo also proclaimed herself the head of the Lee Korean family and established herself as the "Empress of the Korean Empire". On February 8, 2020, Li Haiyi passed away, and two years before her death, she chose her distant los Angeles-based relative Andrew Lee as her "crown prince".
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