Prince Sado's Death in a Rice Chest

In 1762 the Korean Crown Prince Sado served as regent and became violently unstable, torturing, assaulting, and killing courtiers and servants on a whim. Court terror mounted as his behavior worsened. His father, King Yeongjo, ordered Sado sealed inside a wooden rice chest as punishment. Sado died of starvation, and the palace recorded the death as a grim resolution to the crisis.

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