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Bangsan Yoon Junki, Dasan(茶山) Jung Yakyong(丁若鏞)’s grandson, spent his life traveling Korea and published <DongHwanLok(東環錄)>, which is an old map of Korea, and also wrote several HweGo Si(懷古詩), a poem which dealt with past history. This report is based on Bangsan’s currently existing poems to uncover the truth that it was misunderstanding that he traveled throughout Korea for his entire life. Through this study of Bangsan’s poetry collection, there were two dispositions which support the misunderstanding part of uncovering the truth. First, he used historical sites in his poem for rhyming couplet, which shows similar form from HweGo Si, but those sites are only used for background purpose. Second, exoticism of sorrow is well explained throughout the poem, and also historical sites kind of play a role in his poems to setup a subjective sentiment. These characteristics of using historical sites in his poems to setup a background shows his belief of JoSunSiLon(朝鮮詩論), which means Koreans should be writing poems about Korea only, and also supporting lyricism throughout his work.

Yoon Jungki(尹廷琦), DongHwanLok(東環錄), kihaeng si(紀行詩), HweGo Si(懷古詩), Historical relics, pathos, Jjeong yak-yong(丁若鏞), Dasan School