Yun Ung-nyeol
General Yun Ung-nyeol or Yun Woong Niel, also known as Yun Ung-ryeol (윤웅렬, 1840-1911), was a Joseon Dynasty and Korean Empire soldier and Gaehwa Party politician. Yun Ung-nyeol was a pro-Japanese scholar-bureaucrat of the Joseon Dynasty and Korean Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A penname of his was Bangye (반계/磻溪). Biography. 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 gwageo's  civil service military examination (mugwa). He was a long-time Gaehwa Party member with Kim Ok-gyun and Hong Yeongsik. In 1904, Yun Ung-nyeol was the Korea's Minister of War. He died in 1911, aged 71. In modern Korean historiography, General Yun has been designated one of the "Chinilpa" or pro-Japanese activists of the 1900s (decade).