Pak Chi-won

Pak Ji-won was born in Seoul in 1737. Trained in the classics and the histories, he gave up the examinations for study and writing and, from 1768, gathered a circle of scholars that included Pak Je-ga and Yu Deuk-gong. In 1780 he accompanied his cousin's embassy to the Qing court, as far as Beijing and Jehol, and drew a travel journal from it. According to the Korean institute in charge of translations, he was afterwards a magistrate of several districts and in 1799 presented the king with a treatise on agriculture. He died in Seoul in 1805. He is counted among the great thinkers of sirhak, the school of practical learning.

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• TaleThe Tale of Student Heo허생전Pak Chi-won · 1780Literature