…activities of Kwŏn P’il and Hŏ Kyun developed in the former direction, while those of Yi Chŏng-Gu, Sin Hŭm, Yi Sik, Chang Yu, and other scholar-bureaucrats writing in Chinese evolved in the latter direction. The sirhak (“practical learning”) school, which included Pak Chi-Wŏn, turned its attention to contemporary realities and…
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