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Person1417 – 1475

Sin Suk-ju

Also called: Bohanjae

Jiphyeonjeon scholar who helped create Hunminjeongeum, wrote the Haedong jegukgi after a mission to Japan, and became Chief State Councillor under Sejo

A Jiphyeonjeon scholar under Sejong, he worked on the Hunminjeongeum haerye and the Dongguk jeongun rhyme dictionary, and with Seong Sam-mun visited an exiled Ming scholar in Liaodong to ask about phonology. Returning from Japan in 1443 as secretary of the envoy mission, he helped settle the Gyehae Treaty at Tsushima, and under Seongjong he wrote the Haedong jegukgi (1471) on the geography, customs and diplomatic usage of Japan and Ryukyu. Made a merit subject for helping Sejo to the throne, he served as Chief State Councillor and led the compilation of the Gukjo oryeui on state rites.

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5 related events

  1. 1
    1420Jiphyeonjeon expandedparticipant

    Sejong turned the Hall of Worthies into a research institute whose scholars produced the Hunminjeongeum commentary and many other works.

  2. 2
    1443Gyehae Treatydiplomat

    Under Sejong, Joseon concluded an agreement with the lord of Tsushima limiting trade with Japan to 50 ships and 200 seok of rice a year.

  3. 3
    1446Promulgation of Hunminjeongeumparticipant

    King Sejong published Hunminjeongeum, a new script he created for ordinary people.

  4. 4
    1447An Gyeon’s Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Landrelated figure

    An Gyeon painted in three days the peach-blossom paradise Prince Anpyeong saw in a dream — a monumental landscape leading from the real world into paradise, masterpiece of early Joseon painting.

  5. 5
    1453Gyeyu Couprelated figure

    Grand Prince Suyang killed Kim Jong-seo and Hwangbo In and took control; two years later he took the throne from his nephew Danjong.

People who appear alongside

  • Sejong the Great1397 – 1450

    Fourth king of Joseon, creator of Hangul, patron of science and of the northern frontier

  • Seong Sam-mun1418 – 1456

    Hall of Worthies scholar executed for plotting to restore Danjong; one of the Six Martyred Ministers

  • Jeong In-ji1396 – 1478

    Jiphyeonjeon scholar who wrote the preface to the Hunminjeongeum haerye and led the compilation of the Goryeosa

  • Bak Paeng-nyeon1417 – 1456

    Jiphyeonjeon scholar executed as one of the Six Martyred Ministers for plotting with Seong Sam-mun to restore Danjong

  • Sejo (Grand Prince Suyang)1417 – 1468

    Seized power in the 1453 coup and took the throne from his nephew Danjong

  • Han Myeong-hoe1415 – 1487

    Strategist behind Grand Prince Suyang's 1453 coup

  • Kim Jong-seo1383 – 1453

    General and chief minister who built the Six Garrisons on the Tumen; killed by Grand Prince Suyang in 1453

  • Danjong1441 – 1457

    Sixth king of Joseon, deposed by his uncle Sejo and killed in exile at Yeongwol

Themes this person appears in

  • Song, Ming and Samurai JapanAD 960 – 1500

    The age when the civil-minded Song bought peace from Liao, Western Xia and Jin while the lower Yangtze boomed and Neo-Confucianism took shape, and the Ming, having driven out the Yuan, rebuilt the East Asian order through imperial autocracy, the sea ban and tribute — as Japan passed through the Kamakura and Muromachi warrior governments into the Warring States era, and Korea from Goryeo to Joseon

  • 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

  • Printing and Documentary HeritageAD 751 – 2011

    From the Dharani Sutra to the May 18 archives — woodblock and metal-type printing, and the records inscribed on the Memory of the World

  • Busan1443 – 1979

    Port of the Japan House and of the 1876 opening — Korea’s gateway to Japan, and wartime capital in the Korean War