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Yi Sun-sin

Korean admiral

Yi Sun-sin served in a role connected with the Joseon Navy during sixteenth century. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.

He is associated with defence of korea through innovative naval command. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, exploration, or specialist expertise.

He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most familiar names. Yi Sun-sin belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.