hanja rr article_title mr hangul
金仁問 gim inmun kim inmun
 kim inmun 김인문
kim inmun

kim inmun -lrb- 629 -- 694 -rrb- was a noted aristocrat , scholar , and official of the ancient korean kingdom of silla .
he was the son of muyeol and the younger brother of munmu , the twenty-ninth and thirtieth kings respectively of silla .
in 651 , as a young man of twenty-three , kim inmun was dispatched by his father , king muyeol , to tang china and entered into the service of tang gaozong , where he soon won that emperor 's trust and esteem .
in 653 king muyeol entrusted his son inmun with the diplomatic mission of securing a tang military alliance against silla 's rival baekje .
kim inmun mobilized with the tang troops that subsequently marched on baekje , and participated in the campaign that ended in the destruction of baekje and the capture of its last king uija .
kim inmun would go on to serve as a regular mediary between the tang and silla courts in the years of korea 's unification wars and for a short period thereafter , living much of his life in the tang capital .
in 674 , in the wake of silla 's unification of the peninsula and the subsequent detioration of the silla-tang alliance , kim inmun was actually named king of silla by the tang emperor and ordered to return to silla to replace his brother on the throne .
it was while en route back to silla that an embassy from silla was met proferring apologies to tang and seeking forgiveness .
kim 's title was rescinded and he returned to the tang capital .
the 12th century korean history samguk sagi contains a brief biography of kim inmun .
there it states that he died of illness in the tang capital of chang ` an in the fourth month of 694 , a detail confirmed in the tang histories .
the tang emperor sent a special delegation to conduct kim 's body back to silla .
in silla he was granted the posthumous title of `` taedae gakgan '' -lrb- 태대각간 , 太大角干 -rrb- and was buried on the western plain of the silla capital of gyeongju .
the 13th century samguk yusa relates that kim inmun died on board ship en route back to silla , but considering the rather detailed account of kim 's death and subsequent funeral embassy found in the tang histories and repeated in the `` samguk sagi '' , this account seems doubtful .
