Kim Bu-sik Compiles the Samguk sagi

By order of King Injong, Kim Bu-sik and others compiled the Samguk sagi, a 50-volume annals-and-biographies history of Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla and the oldest surviving Korean history.

It comprises 28 volumes of annals, 3 of chronological tables, 9 of treatises and 10 of biographies. Written from a rational Confucian standpoint, it omits myth and legend where it can and treats Silla as the legitimate line; Balhae is left out.

In presenting it Kim lamented that "our scholars and officials know Chinese affairs well but are ignorant of our own". It is often contrasted with the later Samguk yusa, which preserves Buddhist lore, folk tales and the Dangun legend.