Choe Chung (984–1068) was a
Korea
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n Confucian scholar and poet of the
Haeju
Haeju () is a city located in South Hwanghae Province near Haeju Bay in North Korea. It is the administrative centre of South Hwanghae Province. As of 2008, the population of the city is estimated to be 273,300. At the beginning of the 20th century ...
Choe clan during the
Goryeo
Goryeo (; ) was a Korean kingdom founded in 918, during a time of national division called the Later Three Kingdoms period, that unified and ruled the Korean Peninsula until 1392. Goryeo achieved what has been called a "true national unificati ...
period. He has been called the grandfather of the Korean educational system.
[Yang, Key P. and Gregory Henderson, 1958, "An Outline History of Korean Confucianism: Part I: The Early Period and Yi Factionalism,"''The Journal of Asian Studies'' 18 (1): 81-101: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2941288.]
Family
*Father: Choe On (최온, 崔溫)
**1st son: Choe Yu-seon (최유선, 崔惟善)
**2nd son: Choe Yu-gil (최유길, 崔惟吉)
**Daughter: Lady Choe (부인 최씨, 夫人 崔氏)
***Son-in-law: Gim Seong-su (김성수, 金成洙)
References
Korean Confucianists
984 births
1068 deaths
Korean educators
Choe clan of Haeju
11th-century Korean philosophers
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