Andong Kim
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Andong Kim
Intro:
Information in English format is hard to come by. Perhaps that's why we started this project. We do need to have the Andongkim Familily history book translated into English one of these days.
From what i can gather off the internet, here are some exerpts:
The Andong Kim clan waged a fierce campaign to preserve their influence and dominate the royal house in Seoul. Things became so heated that whenever the Yi royal clan proposed an intelligent, acceptable candidate for the throne, they were either accused of treason and executed. or sent into exile. When King Hongjong died in 1849 at the age of twenty-three without leaving a son or heir, no acceptable replacement could be found.
