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==== Ascension of the new King ====
A week after the coup, [[Tedjo of Sjakwang|Ki Ripbam]] was a leading candidate for the new King. He was challenged by candidates from the Andong Kim, Soenhoeng Ahn, and other clans. Using his connections, he hired mercenaries from [[Tauland]] and allied with several key families in return for discreet favours.
Eleven days before [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuseok Tsjusak], Ki Ripbam decisively declared himself King of Corea, the formation of the [[House of Ki]], and the establishment of the [[Corea|state of Sjakwang]]. 326 people were exiled, 64 sentenced to death, and 1,102 pardoned on the day of the declaration. Ripbam declared himself King Tedjo and began his coronation on the 26th of October, the same day as King Yangdjo's. Shortly before his coronation, King Tedjo divorced his estranged wife Lady Pak Mjanghwa and took on two consorts the next day.
==== Resistance to the new regime ====
The Ki clan and their allies commit acts of violence across the nation in response to resistance, at one time even executing the wife and children of an ultraconservative governor. Nakatomi Hidehasa, a Japanese accountant and translator in Corea at the time, described the Ki clan's atrocities as 'tragedy framed by justice' and 'the novel Jansangun dreamed of writing'.
==== Shift in Corean policy ====
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