Yun Ung-nyeol

Yun Ung-nyeol
Yun Ung-nyeol (left) and a friend attired in traditional Korean clothing. The two are engaged in a game of "Go-ban" (oriental chess) in one of the rooms of Yun's home in Seoul c. 1903.
Korean name
Hangul	윤웅렬
Hanja
Revised Romanization	Yun Ung-nyeol
McCune–Reischauer	Yun Ungnyŏl
Pen name
Hangul	반계
Hanja
Revised Romanization	Bangye
McCune–Reischauer	Pangye
Courtesy name
Hangul	영중
Hanja
Revised Romanization	Yeongjoong
McCune–Reischauer	Youngjung

General Yun Ung-nyeol or Yun Woong Niel (also known as Yun Ung-ryeol (윤웅렬, 1840-1911), was Joseon Dynasty and Korean Empire's soldier and politician. a member of Party Gaehwa(개화당;開化黨).

a Pro-Japanese scholar-bureaucrat of Joseon Dynasty and the Korean Empire in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. a penname was Bangye(반계, 磻溪).

Yun Ung-nyeol was a member of one of the prominent yangban families of Korea. His family was considered wealthy. but he was illegitimate child of his father. In 1857, Yun passed the military examination(무과; 武科).

he was long times Movementing of member Party Gaehwa with Kim Ok-gyun and Hong Yeongsik.

In 1904, Yun Ung-nyeol was the Korea's Minister of War. 1911 died, aged 71.

In modern Korean historiography, General Yun has been designated one of the Chinilpa or pro-Japanese activists of the 1900s (decade).