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Yi Mun-jin

Goguryeo scholar of the Taehak under King Yeongyang who condensed the 100-volume Yugi into the five-volume Sinjip

According to the Samguk sagi he was ordered by King Yeongyang in 600 to abridge the Yugi, a 100-volume record said to have been written in the kingdom’s early years. Neither book survives. Compiled as war with Sui was beginning, the work is seen as an effort to set down the kingdom’s story and strengthen unity.

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AD 600Yi Mun-jin compiles the Sinjipauthor
Under King Yeongyang, the Taehak scholar Yi Mun-jin condensed the 100-volume Yugi, Goguryeo’s early history, into the five-volume Sinjip.

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King YeongyangAD 618
Twenty-sixth king of Goguryeo, who struck Liaoxi and repelled the Sui invasions

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Writing Korean HistoryAD 375 – 1931
From the Seogi, Guksa and Sinjip to the Joseon sanggosa — history-writing as royal display, Confucian record, assertion of independence and nationalist scholarship