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In the year of 1364(= the king Gongmin 13th year), Goryo army encountered miserable defeat by ‘Waegu(=japanese pirates) in the naval battle of Izakdo(Izak island) which is located in western sea of Korean peninsular(=yellow sea). The reasons of the miserable defeat were as follows : 1. the discord of the channel of command 2. the quality of commander 3. the performance of naval battle of soldiers. The naval battle was proceeded as follows : Each soldiers start to shoot an arrow a little way off. And as the ships get closer each other, they started to speared each other. Boats tip after contact with each other, the members of Waegu armed with swords jumped onto Goryo army’s ships started to the hand – to hand combat. One reason of Goryo army’s defeat was that their performance of using swords like as arrows and spears and long swords on board ship was inferior to Waegu. The soldiers had mobilized in the Izakdo battle were land troops like as cavalry or infantry. There were big differences between the conditions of the ground combat and naval battle like as the tidal current, seasickness etc. On the other hand, Waegu members are the nautical. And the Goryo court knew that this point. So there were so many members of Goryo court who opposed to rebuild their navy because their navy could not afford the Waegu in the naval battle. Therefore Goryo court did not try to rebuild their navy.