Exhibition Information

			Part 1 of the book, "The descendants of Cheongbaek-ri, suffer family misfortune and national disgrace," deals with the trajectory of Hyungwon's life. He lost his father to political strife when he was two years old, and suffered the Manchu war of 1636 as a boy. His father's death and national humiliation have awakened the boy Hyungwon and raised his sense of responsibility. Why does the country suffer disgrace and the people's disaster never stop? It was a sense of problem that he had.

Part 2 of the book, "Land of Reform, Writing a Life's Reversal in Buan," directed the academic space of Hyungwon. Buan-gun, where Bangyeseodang is located, boasts one of the best landscapes in the South. This space, which Hyungwon Hyungwon looked at, was produced as a video in the exhibition. He expressed his wealth as an area that conceived the healing of lung disease that had plagued him all his life and the reform of the harmful sea that he dreamed of since his youth. In Buan, Hyungwon wrote "BANGYE-SUROK" and completed it at the age of 49. Shortly after completion, Hyungwon passed away at the age of 52.

The third part, "Planning a Fair Country," examines the composition of "The Rebellion the More," a 19-year-old masterpiece of Hyungwon's life. Hyung-won attributed the country's decline to the fact that the laws and systems of self-interest have not changed. The "restoration of the public nature of the nation" was a fundamental and urgent task. The prescription was BANGYE-SUROK. He criticized the land reasons and suggested the system as an alternative, and further argued for general national reform discourse such as the past, education, government office system, nok-bul system, and military system. It also has detailed procedures for implementation, not just ideal slogans. Hyung-won was confident that his system plan would be extremely "fair" and could be implemented for a long time.

The fourth part, <100 Years of Waiting, Beyond the Partisans, Causing Shilhak> dealt with the process of being recognized "BANGYE-SUROK "as a country's current statement after Hyung-won's death. What is special about the re-evaluation work, which took more than 100 years after its death, is that Hyungwon's reform plan was recognized by everyone beyond the party, including King Yeongjo and King Jeongjo. It was published as a king's order in more than 100 years and was recognized as a representative work of the time.

Hyungwon's intense sense of problem and fundamental prescription set an example for later scholars. With Hyungwon's theory as a stepping stone, Yi Ik, Hong Dae-yong, Park Ji-won, and Jeong Yak-yong presented their theory. That's why Hyungwon is called 'the founder of Silhak'.