attention. Her fury at being ignored by Gojong was said to have manifested itself in her attempted murder of one of her husband’s pregnant concubines. She has also been blamed for the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of Koreans through court intrigue.
There is no question that Queen Min was a powerful personality of the late Joseon era and used whatever means she could in order to maintain her power. But she was also a warm person with a sense of humor and motherly love.
Queen Min loved children and often invited the Western ladies of Seoul to bring their children to the palace so that she could observe them. Her own son, Sunjeong, was the center of her life and it has been claimed that he slept in the same room as the queen up until her death. Even as she was being murdered by her assassins her last thoughts seem to have been on the well-being of her son.