On this occasion, Lee Wan-yong and other pro-Japanese people planned to depose the emperor, who was forced to pass the throne on to the crown prince on July 20 and become a retired emperor.
そのため李完用など親日派勢力により皇帝の退位が画策され、7月20日、皇太子への譲位に追い込まれ太上皇となった。