韓國에서의 圃隱學의 硏究成果와 展望

Abstract

According to some archives, three points can feature Poeun's(圃隱) character. Firstly he is a man of endless loyalty. His behavior was consistent with his scholarship. He set his own value-standard and kept his principle as possible as he could. Therefore he would not cooperate anything that could run counter to his principle and loyalty. As a result he is regarded as a typical loyal subject throughout Ko-ryo(高麗) dynasty and Cho-sun(朝鮮) dynasty. Secondly he didn't form a faction in political party. Though we can find one document called Koryosa(高麗史) which reveals that he had some connection with a faction, but this document was written carelessly. It would be more reasonable that they are the people who were impressed by his character and followed him naturally. He had not enough time to form a faction in his party because of a long international official trip. And as he kept his private and public life clearly separate and tried to be neutral in any political case, so it didn't suit on his character that he tried to do something accompanying his followers. We can confirm this point through one example - Once a chance for recovering loyal power was given to him. But as he tried to do it with just his own personal ability not depending on others' power, he couldn't make it after all. Thirdly he was an perfectionist. He was wide-minded and had a great eloquence and logic to persuade others. He was also quite good at writing and global mind. He was not reluctant to take international official trips that others didn't like. And through the course that he got achievement we can find out that he was a great subject with a royal mind. But as is the case with perfectionist, his temper which could be developed into arrogant mind also drove himself isolated from others. According to Koryosa he was so stubborn that he liquidated everyone who had been against him, which means he also had this kind of dark-sided tendency. I classified Poeun's poems into three parts - 1) free-hearted(豪放詩), 2) international official trip(使行詩), 3) missing home(思鄕詩). These three types are main contents of his chinese character poem. His poems are generally wide-scaled. They also include experience from international official trip and homesickness. Studies on Poeun(圃隱) is being proceeded under present conditions. About 150 papers on it have been written and there are some active researches about Poeun in the province near from the relics of Poeun. Recently an academic meeting for Poeun has been organized and a book called Research on Poeun Studies(圃隱學硏究) has been published. It heated researches on Poeun Studies. We are expecting that we can get at least more ting 20 papers about Poeun per year. The most urgent problem is complementing the collection of its works and translating its accurately. And we should keep absolutely objective point of view when we estimate him. We need an open-minded attitude which can accept any criticism on Poeun's achievement and fault. Most of all, this is what Jong-Yak-won(宗約院) or Poeun's descendents should do first. After systematically accomplishing these two tasks, academic Poeun award should be offered and Poeun research institute should be established so that we can distribute Poeun studies abroad through expanding this business.