Giminseop Dangyeilgi

This book is the diary of Kim In-seop (pen name Dangye, 1827–1903), a civil official of the late Joseon period. Kim passed the jinsa examination, a preliminary civil-service qualifying exam, at the age of seventeen, and at twenty passed the munkwa, the higher civil service examination, becoming jeongeon (censor) in the Saganwon, the Office of the Censor-General. At thirty-two he resigned his post and returned to his hometown. In 1862, when he was thirty-six, his father was implicated in a popular uprising and exiled to Imjado Island, and Kim went with him. At forty-one, following a false report submitted by a royal inspector accusing him of oppressing the people, he was banished for a year to Ganseong in Gangwon-do. The diary now held covers fifty-three years, from when Kim was twenty-three (1849) until his death, and comprises twenty-nine volumes in all. It is valued as an excellent source for tracing many of the changes of the late Joseon period, including the confrontation between reformist and conservative forces, the encroachment of the foreign powers on Joseon, and Japanese colonial policy.

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Where it is

Region

Jinju, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산