Hoewa Yun Yang-rae is a politician and poet in the end of Chosun dynasty. He had been through many high governmental positions for nearly 40 years. In his four year exile period in the middle of his glorious governmental positions he produced the nume...
Hoewa Yun Yang-rae is a politician and poet in the end of Chosun dynasty. He had been through many high governmental positions for nearly 40 years. In his four year exile period in the middle of his glorious governmental positions he produced the numerous Korean poetry and Chinese poetry.
Interestingly, his works during the exile period brought a contrasting aspect from the previous style of the exile literature in that he was able to see the true reality; The glorious world he used to live as a governmental bureaucrat was a vanity and the new world he faced in the exiled place was an heaven because he though the fullness and the emptiness could cross over each other in life. Furthermore, after the exile he was able to go back to the previous world with the clean mind and reborn as a great governor for people,
After all, his life reflects the self?realization of the truth and the practice of it through his exile life and literature.