O Yun-gyeom

O Yun-gyeom
오윤겸
Left State Councillor
In office
21 October 1633 – 25 February 1636
Preceded byKim Ryu
Succeeded byHong Seo-bong
In office
12 October 1627 – 17 August 1628
Preceded bySin Heum
Succeeded byKim Ryu
Chief State Councillor
In office
16 December 1628 – 22 September 1631
Preceded bySim Heum
Succeeded byYun Bang
Right State Councillor
In office
20 November 1626 – 12 October 1627
Preceded bySim Heum
Succeeded byKim Ryu
Personal details
Born1559
Died25 February 1636(1636-02-25) (aged 76–77)
Korean name
Hangul
오윤겸
Hanja
吳允謙
Revised RomanizationO Yun-gyeom
McCune–ReischauerO Yun'gyŏm

O Yun-gyeom (1559–1636) was a Korean scholar-official and Chief State Councillor of the Joseon period.

He was also diplomat and ambassador, representing Joseon interests in the 2nd Edo period diplomatic mission to the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.[1]

  1. ^ Toby, Ronald P. (1991). State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu, p. 70.