Yi Bangwon 李芳遠
the future King Taejong · Goryeo and Joseon Korea · 1367–1422
Fifth son of Yi Seonggye, later Taejong, third king of Joseon. Just before the new state was founded he is said to have sung this song to sound out Jeong Mongju, who meant to defend Goryeo.
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1392 (recorded in a songbook of 1728) · Said to be the song that sounded out Jeong Mongju: give up failing Goryeo and join us
What does it matter this way, what does it matter that way? What does it matter if the arrowroot vines of Mansu Mountain twine together? Let us too twine together like them, and enjoy a hundred years.
이런들 엇더ᄒᆞ며 져런들 엇더ᄒᆞ료
萬壽山 드렁츩이 얼거진들 엇더ᄒᆞ리
우리도 이 ᄀᆞᆺ치 얼거져 百年ᄭᆞ지 누리리라"Hayeoga," in Cheonggu yeongeon (1728)
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