CultureJune 682(Lunar)

Founding of the National Academy (Gukhak)

King Sinmun founded the Gukhak, a Confucian academy to train officials steeped in Confucian political ideals who would support the throne.

Gyeongju Hyanggyo, traditionally said to stand on the site of Silla’s Gukhak (buildings from the Joseon period)
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Students aged 15 to 30 studied for up to nine years, with the Analects and the Classic of Filial Piety as required texts. King Gyeongdeok renamed it the Taehakgam.

Head-rank-six Confucian scholars now served the king. Gangsu was famed for diplomatic letters, while Wonhyo’s son Seol Chong systematized idu to read the classics in Korean and wrote the parable Hwawanggye urging Sinmun to keep to virtue.

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States and rulers at the time: Silla — King Sinmun
Places: Seorabeol (Gyeongju)

People

King SinmunAD 692
monarch · Munmu's son and 31st king of Silla, who crushed Kim Heum-dol's revolt and strengthened royal power through the National Academy, the nine provinces and office-land grants
Seol Chong
related figure · Wonhyo's son, who systematized idu to read the Confucian classics in Korean and wrote the parable Hwawanggye for King Sinmun
Gangsu
related figure · Head-rank-six Confucian scholar of Silla whose skill at diplomatic letters served Kings Muyeol and Munmu

Before and after

Earlier: AD 682 Completion of Gameunsa and the Manpasikjeok Flute
Later: AD 685 Nine Provinces and Five Secondary Capitals

Themes that include this event

Educational Institutions Through the AgesAD 372 – 1943
From the Taehak and Gukhak to the Gukjagam and Seonggyungwan, modern schools and the colonial education ordinances — state schools that trained officials and the private schools that filled the gaps