Jeong Dojeon 鄭道傳
statesman · thinker · Goryeo and Joseon Korea · 1342–1398
The man who designed Joseon. He chose the sites and names of the walls of Hanyang and of Gyeongbok Palace. After exile and wandering he met Yi Seonggye and founded the new state, but was killed in a strife among the princes.
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1398 · Said to have been written just before he was killed in the strife among the princes
At holding fast and looking within I laboured, both together, and did not betray the sages in their yellowed books. Thirty years of hard, painstaking work: one bout of drinking at the pine pavilion, and it has all come to nothing.
操存省察兩加功 不負聖賢黃卷中
三十年來勤苦業 松亭一醉竟成空Sambong jip, book 2, "Laughing at Myself"
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