Author · South Korea
Song Sun
Died in 1582
Song Sun was born in 1493 in Damyang, in Jeolla. Admitted through the examination in 1519, the year of a bloody purge, he served for more than half a century and knew, according to the Hankyung, only one year of exile. In 1524 he bought a plot of land in his home region, built there in 1533 a thatched pavilion, which he enlarged and covered with tiles in 1552, and gathered the region's scholars there. According to the Korean translation institute, he had to withdraw in 1531 for having opposed the powerful Kim An-ro, returned after 1537 and retired for good in 1569. He died in 1582.