Person1431 – 1492

Kim Jong-jik

Teacher of the Sarim; an essay of his became the pretext for the 1498 purge after his death

Heir to the Yeongnam sarim tradition, he taught many disciples including Kim Goeng-pil, Jeong Yeo-chang and Kim Il-son. Employed under Seongjong, he opened the way for the sarim to enter central politics. His Jouijemun, lamenting Xiang Yu's killing of the Chu emperor Yi, was taken as a veiled attack on Sejo's usurpation. When his disciple Kim Il-son put it into the draft history, the Muo Literati Purge of 1498 followed and Kim's corpse was dismembered.

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1498Muo Literati Purgerelated figure
Claiming that Kim Jong-jik's essay had insulted King Sejo, Yeonsangun executed or exiled Gim Il-son and other Sarim scholars — the first literati purge.

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Yeonsangun1476 – 1506
Tenth king of Joseon, who launched two literati purges and was deposed in 1506

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Factional Politics in Joseon1498 – 1863
From the literati purges to in-law government — how Sarim factions moved from coexistence and checks to purges and one-faction rule, then through Tangpyeong to the dominance of a few clans