Yang Saeon 楊士彦
scholar-official · calligrapher · Joseon Korea · 1517–1584
A scholar-official and calligrapher of early Joseon. He went about carving his calligraphy on the rocks of Mount Geumgang.
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16th century (recorded in a songbook of 1876)
Mount Tai is high, they say, but it is a mountain under heaven. Climb and climb again and there is no reason you cannot reach the top. Yet people do not climb, and only say the mountain is high.
泰山이 놉다 ᄒᆞ되 하늘 아ᄅᆡ 뫼히로다
오르고 ᄯᅩ 오르면 못 오를 理 업건마는
ᄉᆞᄅᆞᆷ이 제 아니 오르고 뫼흘 놉다 ᄒᆞ돗다Gagok wollyu (1876)
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