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From Andong Kim

The Andong Kim clan waged a fierce campaing 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.