Person1855 – 1910
Hwang Hyeon
Also called: Maecheon
Scholar of Gurye who wrote the "Maecheon yarok" chronicle of his times and took his own life at the annexation, leaving four death poems
A scholar of Gurye in Jeolla, he took first place in the licentiate examination but declined office to devote himself to study and writing. He chronicled events from the Daewongun's regency to the annexation in the Maecheon yarok and recorded the Donghak Peasant Revolution in the Ohagimun. When the country was annexed in 1910 he wrote that it would be shameful if not a single scholar died on the day the nation fell, composed his death poems and took his own life.