Board of Marshals

The Board of Marshals (Korean: 원수부; Hanja: 元帥府) was the ministry which managed overall the military of the Korean Empire.

This was for centralizing power towards the then-emperor, Gojong of the Korean Empire.

Gojong established it to have the supreme command of the army.

[1] After the establishment of the board, the power of the military authorities was handed to the Emperor.

After the Japanese won, the Japanese disbanded the ministry to reduce and later remove all military power from the Emperor.