Ilseongnok

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Korean spelling
Korean alphabet : 일성록
Hanja : 日 省 錄
Revised Romanization : Ilseongnok
McCune-Reischauer : Ilsŏngnok
Ilseongnok, exhibited at the Kyujanggak Institute for Koreanology Studies at Seoul National University

The Ilseongnok ( Korean 일성록 ), literally: "The record of daily reflections," is a collection of records commissioned by King Jeongjo ( 정조 ), the 22nd King of the Joseon Dynasty ( 조선 왕조 ) (1392-1910) in Korea .

The work

The work comprises 2,329 volumes with records of state processes that span the period of 151 years from 1760 to 1910. The records begin with the Jonhyeongak Ilgi ( 존 현각 일기 ), the personal diary of King Jeongjo, when he himself was appointed Crown Prince in his youth as the eldest son of Crown Prince Sado ( 사도 ) and in the Jonhyeongak Hall he carries out his future duties Education has been prepared. Impressed by the Chinese philosopher Zengzi ( 曾子 ), who once wrote: "Every day I reflect in three ways" , Jeongjo began to write down his thoughts and self-reflections. He continued his diary when he became king himself, but in 1783, the seventh year of his reign, commissioned the staff of the Gyujanggak ( 규장각 ) royal library to keep daily records and to obtain approval for their contents every five days.

In 1785, King Jeongjo commissioned the staff of the royal library to revise the records and to compile and maintain them in a well-structured style and format, starting from his birth, through his personal records and the Seungjeongwon Ilgi ( 승정원 일기 ) (diary of the royal secretariat) transforming Ilseongnok from the monarch's personal diary to an official daily diary of his state affairs. Even after Jeongjo's death, the form and structure of the state diary was continued by the subsequent three kings and two emperors of the Joseon Empire ( 조선 ) until the annexation of Korea by Japan in 1910.

World document heritage

Before the collection of the diaries of the Royal Secretariat was declared a World Document Heritage by UNESCO in 2011 and thus included in the Memory of the World Register , the Korean government registered the collection on December 11, 1973 under registration number 153 as a national cultural asset.

The Ilseongnok is recognized by UNESCO as a, quote:

"... documentary heritage of unique value with few comparable examples in the world as a diary kept by the kings of a pre-modern despotic monarchy with a view to reflecting on their rule and using it as a reference for future state administration."

"... documentary heritage of unique value with few comparable examples in the world as a diary kept by the kings of a premodern despotic monarchy to reflect on their rule and use it as a reference for future state administration."

- UNESCO

described.

UNESCO also considers the work to be of world-historical importance in its composition, as it gives insights into the political and cultural exchange between East and West between the 18th and 20th centuries, as well as the country's acceptance of Western science and technologies as a means documented to promote its own culture.

literature

  • Cultural Heritage Administration of the Republic of Kore (Ed.): Ilseongnok - The Records of Daily Reflections . Seoul 2010 (English, online [PDF; 69 kB ; accessed on November 2, 2019] Application by UNESCO for recognition of Ilseongnok as World Heritage Document).
  • Office of Cultural Properties - Ministry of Cultural (Ed.): Cultural Properties of the Republic of Korea . Seoul March 1990, National Treasures (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilseongnok: Records of Daily Reflections . In: Memory of the World . UNESCO , accessed on November 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Republic of Korea - Seungjeongwon Ilgi, The Diaries of the Royal Secretariat . 2010, p.  4 .
  3. ^ A b Republic of Korea - Seungjeongwon Ilgi, The Diaries of the Royal Secretariat . 2010, p.  1-4 .
  4. ^ Cultural Properties of the Republic of Korea . March 1990, p.  36 .
  5. ^ A b Republic of Korea - Seungjeongwon Ilgi, The Diaries of the Royal Secretariat . 2010, p.  1 .