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! colspan=2|Birth name
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| align=right style="border-top:1px solid"| [[Hangul]]:
| width="135" style="border-top:1px solid"| 이구
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| align=right style="border-top:1px solid"| [[Hanja]]:
| style="border-top:1px solid"| 李玖
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| align=right style="border-top:1px solid"| [[McCune-Reischauer]]:
| style="border-top:1px solid"| Yi Ku
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| align=right style="border-top:1px solid"| [[Revised Romanization of Korean|Revised Romanization]]:
| style="border-top:1px solid"| I Gu
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! colspan=2|Claimed royal title
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| align=right style="border-top:1px solid"| [[Hangul]]:
| width="135" style="border-top:1px solid"| 황태손
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| align=right style="border-top:1px solid"| [[Meaning]]:
| width="135" style="border-top:1px solid"| Prince Imperial
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| align=right style="border-top:1px solid"| [[Hanja]]:
| style="border-top:1px solid"| 皇太孫
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| align=right style="border-top:1px solid"| [[Revised Romanization of Korean|Revised Romanization]]:
| style="border-top:1px solid"| Hwangtaeson
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! colspan=2|Posthumous claimed title
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| align=right style="border-top:1px solid"| [[Hangul]]:
| width="135" style="border-top:1px solid"| 회은황태손
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| align=right style="border-top:1px solid"| [[Meaning]]:
| width="135" style="border-top:1px solid"| Prince Imperial Hoeun
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| align=right style="border-top:1px solid"| [[Hanja]]:
| style="border-top:1px solid"| 懷隱皇太孫
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| align=right style="border-top:1px solid"| [[Revised Romanization of Korean|Revised Romanization]]:
| style="border-top:1px solid"| Hoeun Hwangtaeson
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'''Gu, Prince of Korea''' (aka '''Yi Ku''', '''I Gu''', '''Lee Gu''') (born [[29 December]] [[1931]]–[[16 July]] [[2005]]) was a claimant to the throne of [[Korea]], contested twenty-ninth head of the Korean Imperial Household, and the grandson of [[Gojong of Korea|Gojong]] of the Korean [[Joseon Dynasty]].
Gu was born in Kitashirakawa Palace (now, Akasaka Prince Hotel), Kioicho, Kojimachiku, [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]; his father was [[Eun, Crown Prince of Korea|Crown Prince Eun]] of Korea, and his mother was Princess [[Masako Nashimoto|Bang-ja]] born a Japanese princess. If his claim had been accepted, and Korea were still a monarchy, his title would have been "His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince of Korea".
Gu attended the [[Gakushuin|Gakushuin Peers' School]] in Tokyo. He later attended [[Centre College]], [[Danville, Kentucky|Danville]], [[Kentucky]] and studied architecture at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] both in the [[US]]. He was employed as an architect with I.M. Pei & Assocs, [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] on [[1960]] to [[1964]]. Made stateless by [[Japan]] in [[1947]], Gu acquired [[United States|U.S.]] citizenship in [[1959]], and [[Korea]]n citizenship in [[1964]]. He married [[Julia Mullock]] (b.1928) on [[25 October]][[1959]] at St George's Church in New York, and they adopted a daughter, Eugenia Unsuk.
After the fall of [[Syngman Rhee]], he returned to Korea in [[1963]] with the help of the new president [[Park Chung-hee]], moving into the new building in Nakseon Hall, Changdeok Palace with his mother and wife. He lectured on architecture at [[Seoul National University]] and [[Yonsei University]] and also managed his own airline, [[Shinhan]]. When that went bankrupt in [[1979]], he went to Japan to earn money. In [[1982]], he divorced his wife; his mother died in [[1989]]. He started living with a Japanese astrologer, Mrs Arita.
In November [[1996]], he made what he hoped would be his permanent return to Korea but, showing signs of a nervous breakdown, he was unable to adjust to life in the motherland. Restlessly going back and forth between Japan and Korea, he eventually died of a heart attack at the age of seventy-four, on [[16 July]] [[2005]] at the [[Akasaka Prince Hotel]], the former residence of his parents in Tokyo, Japan. His funeral was held on [[24 July]] [[2005]] and his posthumous title decided as '''Prince Imperial Hoeun of Korea''' by Lee Family Council.
===External links===
*[http://uqconnect.net/~zzhsoszy/states/asia/korea.html Korean royalty]
*[http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200507/kt2005071920253710230.htm Death announcement in Korea Times]
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after=[[Won, Prince of Korea|Prince Won]]
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[[Category:Pretenders]]
[[Category:House of Yi]]
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