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Why didn't Korean rulers ever use the title 황제 (皇帝) until the Korean Empire in the late 19th century?
In fact, they did. It's called 외왕내제(外王內帝), which means 'Emperor at home, king abroad'. Since it will be too much historic rather than linguistic to explain about that system here, I think you can ...
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