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Yi Gyu-bo

Type Figure Region Korean Peninsula Time 1168–1241 Also known as Yi In-sik、Yeokjae、Baegun Geosa、Sam Gokho Seonsaeng

Famous mid-Goryeo poet and civil official, courtesy name Chun-gyeong, pen name Baegun Geosa, hailed as the exiled immortal of the East Sea.…

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  1. 1168–1175Hwangnye · HwangnyeBorn into a modest family in Hwangnye; his father Yi Yun-sui served as Vice Minister of Revenue. Educated at home in childhood, he mastered the Classic of Filial Piety by seven, showing exceptional memory and literary talent that laid the foundation for his later fame in poetry and prose.
  2. 1176–1180Hwangnye · HwangnyeAble to compose at nine, he was called a prodigy, memorizing classics, histories, the Hundred Schools, and Buddhist and Daoist texts at a glance. At eleven he composed poems before elders and won praise, his reputation gradually rising. Goryeo was then under military rule; Yi Gyu-bo was still young and had not yet entered service.

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