Shady businessmen were always trying to involve the late Prince Yi Ku in their peculiar deals, and he eventually went bankrupt as a result. This smacks a little of the same. As for inheritance, since these children of Prince Ui were all adopted to other branches of the Yi clan, they cannot have any claim on his property. Presumably, if someone is claiming that the adoptions were not legal, they would then simply be his illegitimate children. Furthermore, those of them who did happen to inherit anything from their adoptive parents, would then also have done so illegally. --Previous Message--
: My wife picked up a couple of interesting
: items from the Korean language accounts.
: First, it seems Princess Haewon has been
: living "like a beggar, in a
: near-slum", so her relatives got
: together to help her out and did this
: ceremony for her to recoginize her. A more
: unposed photo in one of the Korean papers
: shows her seated on the "dragon
: throne', but with a couple of younger
: relatives, and all of them wiping away
: tears.
:
: The deeper motive may be that the group is
: interested in reclaiming land that belonged
: to Kojong, Princess Haewon's grandfather. I
: assume the land was confiscated by the
: Japanese, and no compensation ever offered.
: Likely it's pretty valuable land by now.
: This caught my wife's attention, because of
: course her clan has some similar losses, but
: land disputes within a family can be quite
: bitter.
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