Politics·Religion (Pro-Japanese collaborator)
| Life | 1870 ~ 1917 |
| Era | 근현대 |
| Clan | 전주 이씨 |
Yi Jun-yong was active during the late Korean Empire and Japanese colonial period. The eldest legitimate grandson of Regent Heungseon Daewongun and son of Prince Heungchin Yi Jae-myeon, he was implicated several times around the First Sino-Japanese War in plots to install him as a political alternative to Emperor Gojong, and after the 1895 assassination of Empress Myeongseong he fled into exile in Japan, returning to Korea in 1907.
Pro-Japanese activities From 1909 to 1910 he headed the pro-Japanese organization Singung Bonggyeonghoe, through which he sought to enshrine Dangun, the legendary founder of Korea, as subordinate to Amaterasu of Japanese Shinto, an effort to subordinate Korean history to Japanese history. For these activities he was included in the government Commission on Pro-Japanese Collaborator Activities' 2006 list of 106 collaborators and in the Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Biography compiled by the Center for Historical Truth and Justice.