Choe Man-ri (, d. 23 October 1445) or sometimes spelled Choi Mal-li, was an associate professor in the
Hall of Worthies () who spoke against the creation of ''
hangul'' (then called ''eonmun'') together with other
Confucian scholars in 1444. He made the following submission that year to
King Sejong against ''hangul'':
Another translation
(English)
His protest against Hangul
Family
*Father - Choe Ha (); 11th generation descendant of Choe Chung
Choe Chung (984–1068) was a Korean Confucian scholar and poet of the Haeju 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 unifie ...
**Grandfather - Choe Ahn-hae ()
*Mother - Lady Ji of the Chungju Ji clan ()
** Grandfather - Ji Yong-su (; 1313–?)
** Grandmother - Lady Kim ()
* Sibling(s)
** Younger brother - Choe Man-hyeon ()
*Wife - Lady Yang of the Junghwa Yang clan ()
** Father-in-law - Yang Mi ()
* Issue
** Son - Choe Gak ()
** Son - Choe Jeong (; 1429 – 27 March 1466)
*** Daughter-in-law - Lady Yi of the Yeoheung Yi clan (; 1429 – 25 March 1505)
** Son - Choe Dang ()
** Son - Choe Eun ()
** Son - Choe Yeon ()
***Grandson - Choe Se-geol (); became the great-grandfather of Choe Gyeong-chang () and 7th generation ancestor of Choe Gyu-seo, Duke Chungjeong ()
** Daughter - Lady Choe of the Haeju Choe clan ()
*** Son-in-law - Yi Ui-seok () of the Deoksu Yi clan
**** Grandson - Yi Cheon (); grandfather to Yi Yi
''Yi Yi'' () is a 2000 Taiwanese drama film written and directed by Edward Yang centering around the struggles of an engineer named NJ (played by Wu Nien-jen) and three generations of his middle-class Taiwanese family in Taipei.
The title in C ...
In popular culture
* Portrayed by Kwon Tae-won in the 2011 SBS TV series '' Deep Rooted Tree''.
* Portrayed by Lee Dae-yeon in the 2015 MBC TV series '' Splash Splash Love''.
* Portrayed by Ahn Shin-woo in the 2016 KBS1 TV series '' Jang Yeong-sil''.
See also
*Little China (ideology)
Little China is a term referring to a politico-cultural ideology and phenomenon in which various Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese regimes identified themselves as "China" and regarded themselves to be legitimate successors to the Chinese civil ...
*Origin of Hangul
The Korean alphabet (Hangul, ) is the native script of Korea, created in the mid fifteenth century by King Sejong, as both a complement and an alternative to the logographic Sino-Korean ''Hanja''. Initially denounced by the educated class as '' ...
References
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Joseon politicians
15th-century Korean writers
1445 deaths
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People from Haeju