心巖 金志洙의 思想과 自決殉國

Abstract

Kim Ji Su sacrificed his life for the country and rejected to receive the Japanese Empire’s royal bounty. He was born at Yeonsan, Chungnam Province, and a great grandson of Kim, Jang Sang. Kim, Jang Sang was a master of 예학 in Chosun and respected as a San-lim of the day. His thought was succeeded to Kim, Jip, Song, si Yeol and Han, Won Jin. Thus, Kim, Ji Su had much pride in his family and his studies was based on the Yehak Kim, Ji Su was influenced by one of his relatives, Kim, Young Woon, and interchanged experience and learned the thought of Song, Si Yeol at the Kigookjeong and Yeoklackjaekae. Interchanging experience with Confucian scholars at Yeonsan area, he was very active at organizing Confucian scholars and set up his family’s status. Through these activities, he became a government official, but resigned immediately and lived in seclusion. In 1911, when the Japanese Empire gave a royal bounty, he committed suicide leaving a poet. He succeeded Kim, Jang Sang’s Yehak, and believed in the usefulness of the Confucianism and absolute truth. For him, Ye was the fidelity, and just and great cause. He put his thought and theory into practice by committing suicide. With him, Song, Byong Sun, Song, Byong Soon, and Lee Hank Soon who succeeded Kiho School, also committed suicide against Japanese invasion. Song, Byong Sun committed suicide against the Protectorate Treaty between Korea and Japan concluded in 1905. Song, Byong Soon and Lee Hank Soon committed suicide rejecting the Japanese Empire’s royal bounty. They chose to commit suicide for their academic tradition and beliefs, fidelity to scholars, the Confucian values and order