동방의 소공(召公) 방촌 황희의 리더십 ―황희 관련 몇 가지 상징요소에 대한 해석을 중심으로―

Abstract

This writing is to seek for the leadership of Bangchon Whang Hee known for the best chancellor and clean government employee of the Joseon Dynasty. In particular, the aim of this writing is to approach the characteristic and significance of Whang Hee's leadership, centered on the Philosophical Interpretation of several symbolic elements about him. The contents that this writing pays attention to are as follows. The first is the content of the leadership inherent in Ik Sung (翼成), Whang Hee's posthumous epithet. Whang Hee was the person who lived a faithful life suitable for the role of a wise retainer helping the king all his life. The reason this kind of life was possible was that he had the personality and quality of the leader practicing cicadas' five virtues. The five are learning (文), cleanness (淸), sense of shame (廉), thrift (儉), and belief (信). The second is the leadership of love inscribed on the Zaogong platform (召公臺). Like Zaogong in the Zhou Dynasty, Whang Hee devoted himself for the livelihood of the people, relieving poverty, eliminating the unemployed, and punishing corrupt officials. As a result, the Zaogong platform was set up to honor his good politics for the people. Through the leadership of love, Whang Hee was already called 'East Zaogong' while living. The third is the leadership of recession or retirement inherent in Bangujeong (伴鳩亭) set up in his later life. One of the characteristics of leadership is to know well when to proceed and recede. That is also to be faithful in the way of time (時中之道). Whang Hee's retirement was different from that of the teaching of Confucius in that it had a natural characteristic. The fourth is the leadership of communication inscribed on Gwangtongru (廣通樓), its predecessor Gwanghanru (廣寒樓). On Gwangtongru inscribing the local characteristic for communicating with the world wide, Whang Hee sought for the leadership of communication to be self-extensible, with the viewpoint of person and person, person and nature, person and world, or person and universe. This is significant in that his leadership of hope was reflected to embody a ideal world on this earth. This kind of discussion is significant in that it is discussed in the way in which the ideological element and philosophical characteristic are grasped inherent in it with the object of examination of the concrete symbolic elements based on the on-site nature of the historical place. This writing is expected to act as a stepping stone the studies on Whang Hee, which is still incomplete.