Yeon Gae Somun (2006)

Yeon Gae Somun 2006 / 연개소문 2006 / Yeon Gae So Mun , Yeon Gaesomun , The Great Hero

Yeon Gae So Mun is the general who killed the penultimate King of Goguryeo, Yeong Nyu, in 642. It was a period of tremendous instability, both because of the pressure by Shilla, but also because the political situation in Goguryeo was very confusing. After General Yeon put Yeong Nyu's nephew Bo Jang as his puppet on the throne following his coup d'etat, he tried with little success to calm down Yeon's two sons in trying to gain power and started repressing Buddhism (the Kingdom's official religion) in favour of Taoism.