『동시품휘보(東時品彙補)』와 허균의 과체시(科體詩) = Dong Shi Poom Hwi Bo(동시품휘보 東詩品彙補) and Hur Kyun's Kwashi(科詩)

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The works of Hur Kyun(1569-1618) dispersed at the time of his execution after being accused of treason. His works, therefore, have often been found outside his anthologies, and on Dong Shi Poom Hwi Bo (동시품휘보 ), recently found in the Yenching Library of Harvard Universities, were five of his Kwashi().
Korea's Kwashi is a form of poetry that cannot be found in Chinese literature. It is heptasyllabic old poem () modified with several modes, and consists of eighteen rhymes and thirty-six lines. It was designed for the state examinations in the old Korea, as the examiners had to evaluate a large number of tests in a short period of time. Because it is a form found uniquely in Korea, it was also often called dong shi(Eastern Poetry). The title, Dong Shi Poom Hwi Bo, means that it is a restoration of the great Kwashi of Korea.
Hur Kyun began studying for the examinations at the age of twelve, after his father's death. He passed the civil service examination () at the age of twenty-six and three years later had the highest scores in the joongshi(), a test given exclusively to the passers of the first examination. After that, in the Hongmoonkwan() monthly examinations (), during summer, autumn, and winter trimesters, he continued to receive that highest score in twenty-seven exams. From these records it is clear that he was a great writer of Kwashi but there were, in fact, no Kwashi written by Hur that were published. Fortunately, the recent discovery of Dong Shi Poom Hwi Bo in the Yenching Libraries gives us a chance to witness, through the five example's of Hur's Kwashi, his literary skills made legendary by his performances in the examinations.
This book contains sixty-seven Kwashi from forty-four different authors, and through writings of Lim Che (1549-1587) and Kwon Pil (1569-1612) we can see the Kwashi in the pre-Imjin War period. The previously discoered collections of Kwashi have mostly been collected and edited in the nineteenth century; the sole fact that we are able to witness these sixteenth century works gives book it's extraordinary value.