Taejo of Goryeo

Founder of the Goryeo Dynasty (877-943)

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Lived 877–943, aged 66
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  • Era
    877–943
    Aged 66
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Updated 2026-06-08

He ended a century of civil war and founded the dynasty that gave Korea its name. Wang Kŏn unified three splintered kingdoms into Goryeo — and held it for 25 years.

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Born in 877, Wang Kŏn rose during the chaos of the Later Three Kingdoms, a fractured peninsula locked in rival claims. In 918 he declared himself king and founded Goryeo. For eighteen years he fought and negotiated, until 936 when the last kingdom fell and the peninsula stood whole again. He ruled the unified state until his death in 943, a reign long enough to root the dynasty that would carry his work forward for four centuries.

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