1. Kim Yuk was a Korean Neo-Confucian scholar, politician and writer of the Korean Joseon Dynasty.
24 Facts About Kim Yuk
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Kim Yuk served as the Chief State Councillor of the Joseon dynasty in 1651 and 1654 through 1658.
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Kim Yuk's mother was the granddaughter of a brother of Jo Gwangjo.
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From childhood, Kim Yuk was considered a prodigy as he had learned by heart the whole Thousand Character Classic at the age of five.
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In 1588, his grandfather, Kim Yuk Bi was appointed as head of Gangdong-gun, Pyeongan-do, his father moved to Gangdong with family members.
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When he was 13 years old, Kim Yuk had to undergo the Imjin war.
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Kim Yuk had to depend on his father's sister for living.
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Kim Yuk had to move to Jamgok-ri, Gapeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, and became a farmer to make a living.
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Kim Yuk was appointed to a post in the State Tribunal.
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In 1624, Kim Yuk passed Gwageo, the literary civil service examination, receiving officially the highest marks.
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In 1632, Kim Yuk was in charge of the funeral service of Dowager Queen Inmok.
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Kim Yuk was allegedly crying day and night in Beijing.
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Right after the Jeongmyo invasion by the Late Jin army in 1627, Kim Yuk was an advocate to support inhabitants of Pyeongan province and Hwanghae province, which were devastated by the war, to make a living.
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Kim Yuk proposed to separate the labor work levied on the inhabitants of Pyeongan province and Hwanghae province into ordinary farming and service in the army.
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Kim Yuk asserted to cultivate military farms in the idle land to prepare for another war with enemy to the north.
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Apart from Daedongbeop, Kim Yuk took it into consideration that:.
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Accordingly, Kim Yuk thought it imperative to stabilize the living of common people by curtailing taxation, and to prevent the alienation of public sentiment.
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Kim Yuk forwarded his thoughts to other public officials as well as King Injo and King Hyojong.
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Kim Yuk tried to persuade King Hyojong to adopt Daedongbeop.
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Unavoidably, Kim Yuk was departed from the mainstream bureaucrats represented by Kim Jip and Song Si-yeol, and caused the separation of anti-Kim Sandang and pro-Kim Handang.
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Kim Yuk asserted the circulation of coins would be conducive not only to distribution of goods but to securing fiscal revenues.
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Kim Yuk was eager to make his thoughts on economy and pragmatic ideas to be realized in real life, for example:.
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Kim Yuk was the best reformist-statesman of the Joseon dynasty.
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Truly, Kim Yuk was an unprecedented statesman of far-sighted view and action in that:.