Background
He was raised as third son of King Dongmyeong (Jumong), the founder of the northern Korean kingdom Goguryeo but his real father was the first husband of his mother, Wutae. He was the younger half-brother of Yuri, who became Goguryeo's second king, and younger brother of Biryu, described in some records as the founder of Baekje.
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