포은(圃隱)에 대한 기록(記錄)과 기억(記憶)

Abstract

The earlier documents about Poeun(Jeong Mong-ju) are articles in Goryeosa, Goryeosa-jeolyo, Taejo-silok, Taejong-silok and his life story in a collection of Poeun’s works, and comments of the contemporaries. These documents have both positive and negative contents. As time went on, positive contents about him increased much more than negative ones. In this paper, I studied what figures of Poeun were remembered by people of future generations, based on various documents about him. Poeun was hailed as a loyalist or a traitor in historical records, but in later generations, he won respect as a front-runner of Neo-Confucianism, a symbol of loyalty, a talented diplomatist, a sensible administrator, and a doer of the proprieties. Ham Bu-rim, Poeun’s disciple, wrote Poeun’s life story and it is included in a collection of Poeun’s works. Kwon Geun, who was a high-ranking government official of Taejong, contended that they should officially recognized Poeun’s royalty. King Sejong ordered his officer to draw Poeun’s figure as a royalist and write a panegyric under the painting. The article of Poeun in Goryeosa reflected all various reputations about him synthetically. All memories and praises of Poeun were based on these several documents. In most part, Poeun’s life, learning, and values matched up with ruling ideology of the Joseon Dynasty. So the Joseon Dynasty revered and recognized his life and achievement to provide a model for people to imitate. I think that it must have contributed to make a nation stronger. After Taejong’s time, many people mentioned Poeun’s positive reputations and admired his works to establish the foundation of the Joseon Dynasty.