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“Song Kyoeng-un's biography” of Yi Ki-bal and the Representation of 17th Century Jeonju ―Sino-Korean Literature Class with Historical Geography

  • Korean Language and Literature
  • 2019, 72(72), pp.61-95
  • DOI : 10.23016/kllj.2019.72.72.61
  • Publisher : 국어문학회
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : October 22, 2019
  • Accepted : November 20, 2019
  • Published : November 30, 2019

Kim Hara 1

1전주대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

“Song Kyoeng-un's biography” is a Sino-Korean prose of Yi Ki-bal’s. Song Kyoeng-un, the protagonist of this work is a famous lute player ofthe 17th century Joseon. He is a well-known figure in Korean music andliterature history. Yi Ki-bal is a literary man of gentry class who was born and raisedin Jeonju. He started his central bureaucracy career in Seoul since 1625,in his mid-20s. He left Seoul after 1636, the Qing invasion of Joseon, andspent his life in his hometown. Song Kyoeng-un was born as a slave of Yi Dam who was a memberof the royal clan lived in mid-1580 of Seoul. Song was a lute player inSeoul in his mid-50s and enjoyed great fame and escaped from slavery. But he moved to Jeonju after the Later Jin invasion of Joseon in 1627and spent the rest of his life at the age of 73. In this paper, Yi Ki-bal'sbrother was identified as the son-in-law of Yi dam and used as the linkbetween the writer and the protagonist. Yi Ki-bal was acquainted with the lute player's reputation while inSeoul, and after returning to Jeonju, he was able to meet and interactwith Song and observe the beautiful and full old age of this artist. Thenames of Jeonju's mountains and rivers mentioned in this prose canprove Song's residence and give his narrative a concrete background.

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