Kim Hong-jip (金宏集)

Overview

The translated histories identify Kim Hong-jip as an official and statesman. This record brings together 3 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Kim Hong-jip	金宏集	Kim Hong-jip
Given	Hong-jip	宏集

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:450:s0183

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 出使朝鮮 · Western Year: AD 1884
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:450:s0183

Career and standing

Label: Left State Councillor / 左議政 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:450:s0183

Places and affiliations

Label: Korea / 朝鮮 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:450:s0183

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 450Volume 450 Biographies 237: Li Henian, Wen Bin, Ren Daorong, Xu Zhenyi, Wu Dacheng · 3 passages

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至則日本使臣井上馨避不肯見，而挾朝鮮左議政金宏集於議政院，索償兵費三十萬。 On arrival he found the Japanese minister Inoue Kaoru avoiding him and refusing an audience, while holding Korean Left State Councillor Kim Hong-jip at the State Council and demanding three hundred thousand taels in military expenses.

立率兵至議政院，排闥入，責數宏集：「柄國敗壞國事。 He immediately led troops to the State Council, forced the doors open, and rebuked Kim Hong-jip: "In wielding power you have ruined the country's affairs.

宏集唯唯，井上馨亦氣懾，減索兵費十一萬而去。 Kim Hong-jip could only assent; Inoue Kaoru was intimidated as well, cut his demand to one hundred ten thousand taels, and withdrew.