Choe Chi-won
Scholar of head-rank six who passed the Tang examination for foreigners, won fame with his proclamation against Huang Chao, presented ten-odd reform proposals to Queen Jinseong and left the Gyewon pilgyeong
He went to study in Tang at twelve, passed the examination for foreigners (bingonggwa) in 874 and wrote the Proclamation against Huang Chao during the Huang Chao rebellion. Returning in 885, he ran into the bone-rank ceiling that kept head-rank-six men from rising above achan. In 894 he submitted ten-odd reform proposals and was made achan, but no reform followed; he left office and lived in seclusion at Haeinsa on Gayasan and elsewhere. His writings survive in the Gyewon pilgyeong, a collection of works written in Tang, and the Four Mountain Stele inscriptions; in his preface to the Nallang stele he described pungnyu, a native way embracing Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism. Under King Hyeonjong of Goryeo he was posthumously titled Marquis Munchang and enshrined in the Confucian shrine.