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Jungjong Restoration 중종반정 中宗反正
Date September 2, 1506 Location Hanyang, Joseon (now Seoul, South Korea) Result Successful Coup King Yeonsan deposed and exiled to Ganghwa Island. Grand Prince Jinseong assumes the throne as King Jungjong. Jang Nok-su and other officials sympathetic to the King are executed. Reopening the Seonggyungwan, royal university, and the Office of Censors.
Belligerents
Joseon Insurgents led by Pak Wŏnjong and Sŏng Hŭian	Joseon Government
Commanders and leaders
Pak Wŏnjong Sŏng Hŭian Yu Sunjŏng Hong Kyŏngju	King Yeonsan Jang Nok-su  Im Sa-hong † Yu Chagwang (defected)

In 1506, the 12th year of Yeonsangun, a group of officials – notably Pak Wŏnjong, Sŏng Hŭian, Yu Sunjŏng and Hong Kyŏngju plotted against the despotic ruler. They launched a coup on September 2, 1506, deposing the king and replacing him with his half-brother, Grand Prince Jinseong. The king was demoted to prince, and exiled to Ganghwa Island, where he died a few weeks later. Consort Jang Nok-su, who was regarded as a femme fatale who had encouraged Yeonsangun's misrule, was beheaded. Yeonsangun's young sons were also killed.

See also

• Korean literati purges
• Hungu (Korean political faction)