Chunghye of Goryeo

Chunghye (1315–1344), personal name Wang Jeong, was the 28th king of Goryeo, son of Chungsuk and Queen Gongwon. He took the throne in 1330 when his father abdicated and married the Yuan princess Deoknyeong; Yuan recalled Chungsuk two years later. When Chungsuk died in 1339, Wang Go, whom chancellor Bayan favored, failed to win the crown after ministers petitioned for Chunghye.

The Goryeosa portrays him as a viciously licentious ruler who abducted, raped and killed women. After he raped Princess Gyeonghwa, his father's concubine, she reported him to a Yuan envoy, who arrested him for the Yuan court. Deposed and banished toward Guangdong, he died on the way in 1344, and his young son Chungmok by Deoknyeong succeeded.