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Gyeonghoe Kim Yeong-geun (1865~1934) is a national patriot and a literary scholar of Honam area who lived during the modern turbulence. Gyeonghoe was born as a person of Joseon Dynasty, living as a Korean under Korean empire and Japanese invasion, practicing the spirit of scholarship and Neo-Confucianism of Joseon Dynasty. He lived a life of destitution and affluence, living as people of a helpless country, l being a village school teacher of teaching Confucian scholarship, which is becoming a scholarship without choosing anger, resistance, and the way into the government service. Kim Yeong-geun had buried the god of the Gando of our history in the heart, saying, "To be a lively guest of life and to become a lion's demon of death." <Wonyuillok> is an article written in the form of a daily record of the long journey of the journey to Gando when such desire is put into practice. Gando Wonyu was made during the most powerful period of Gyeonghoe of the 70 years of age, 42 ~ 43 years of age. In the shock of the Japanese strength and the impact of the westward tide, Wonyu was launched to find a new alternative to life. <Wonyuillok> is a daily record and Chinese poetry describing the penance of 5 people recuperating in Gangjin and going north to Seogando, and is a work that describes the rapidly changing modernity of Korea under Japanese imperialism. This article focuses on the works of Chinese poem of the 234 volumes of the <Wonyuillok>. The Chinese poems in the <Wonyuillok> are largely classified. ① The rough journey and hardship of Wonyu; ② The atrocity of the Japanese imperialism and giving vent to one's anger; ③ The loyal of Wicheokjonyang; ④ The family love of nostalgia and pity; ⑤ Lamentation of poverty and wealth, and ⑥ Sigh of social conditions of shift. And the significance of literary history in the <Wonyuillok> is evaluated as Chinese literature of constancy under Japanese colonial era firstly, succession of Honam literature tradition secondly, and recognition of South and North Korean language and song thirdly. The main emotions of Chinese poem expressed in Kim Yeong-geun's <Wonyuillok>are composed of grief, sorrow, anger, resistance, frustration, and solitude. Kim Yeong-geun is a person who has received rave reviews that "Dong-pa was born again" since he was a boy. It is regarded as the last generation that has kept the Chinese literature that has been blinking with its place in the modern sciences.

Kim Yeong-geun, Wonyuillok, Gangjin, Gando, literary scholar