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Kim Jeong-hui (Chusa)

Epigrapher and calligrapher who created the Chusa style, identified the Bukhansan stele as King Jinheung’s, and painted Sehando in exile on Jeju

A Northern Learning scholar taught by Park Je-ga, he went to Qing and studied evidential learning with scholars such as Weng Fanggang and Ruan Yuan. In the Geumseok gwaannok he identified the Bukhansan and Hwangchoryeong steles as monuments of King Jinheung's tours. He was exiled to Jeju in 1840, and around then painted Sehando for his disciple Yi Sang-jeok.

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2 related events

  1. 1
    AD 561 – AD 568King Jinheung’s Border Stelesrelated figure

    King Jinheung toured his new lands and raised steles at Bukhansan, Changnyeong, Hwangchoryeong and Maunryeong.

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    1844Kim Jeong-hui’s Sehando (Winter Scene)creator

    Painted by the exiled Kim Jeong-hui for his student Yi Sang-jeok, who kept sending him books — pines and cypresses in winter as a symbol of unchanging loyalty.

Related works

  • Documentary: History Special Episode 87: National Treasure No. 180: The Secret of SehandoDocumentary · 2011 · KBS1

People who appear alongside

  • King JinheungAD 534 – AD 576

    Twenty-fourth king of Silla, who took the Han River basin and Daegaya, raised border steles and organized the hwarang

  • Heonjong1827 – 1849

    Twenty-fourth king of Joseon, enthroned at eight while the Pungyang Jo and Andong Kim clans fought for power; the 1839 persecution took place in his reign

Themes this person appears in

  • The Course of Korean PaintingAD 450 – 1897

    From Goguryeo tomb murals to Jang Seung-eop — daily life and guardian deities, Goryeo Buddhist painting, early Joseon landscapes, true-view landscapes and genre painting, literati and folk painting

  • Seoul18 BC – 1988

    From Hanseong Baekje to the June Democratic Struggle — the Han River land every kingdom fought for, and Joseon’s capital for five centuries

  • Jeju Island1270 – 1948

    From Tamna to Jeju — the Sambyeolcho’s last stand, Yuan horse ranches, castaways and exiles, and the island of April 3