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He was born the son of [[Yuan Dynasty]] officials of Korean ethnicity, and was raised in the Shuangcheng (K: ''Ssangseong'') commandery of the Yuan Empire, what is today North and South Hamgyeong province. There, he grew up in a fairly multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environment, surrounded by [[Jurchens]], [[Mongols]], [[Han Chinese]], and Koreans.
He was born the son of [[Yuan Dynasty]] officials of Korean ethnicity, and was raised in the Shuangcheng (K: ''Ssangseong'') commandery of the Yuan Empire, what is today North and South Hamgyeong province. There, he grew up in a fairly multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environment, surrounded by [[Jurchens]], [[Mongols]], [[Han Chinese]], and Koreans.
His preference for negotiation with [[Ming Dynasty]] China rather than military means of solving a territorial dispute over his home region of Ssangseong played a role in causing the fall of the [[Koryo Dynasty]], and the establishment of his own, new, Joseon Dynasty, in [[1392]].<ref>Kang, David C. “Hierarchy and Legitimacy in International Systems: The Tribute System in Early Modern East Asia.” ''Security Studies'' 19, no. 4 (2010): 612</ref>
==References==
==References==
*Adam Bohnet, “Ruling Ideology and Marginal Subjects: Ming Loyalism and Foreign Lineages in Late Chosŏn Korea.” ''Journal of Early Modern History'' 15:6 (January 2011): 484.
*Adam Bohnet, “Ruling Ideology and Marginal Subjects: Ming Loyalism and Foreign Lineages in Late Chosŏn Korea.” ''Journal of Early Modern History'' 15:6 (January 2011): 484.
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