경문왕계 왕실과 최치원 = Choe Chiwon, The Typical of Medieval Court Literacy

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Choe Chiwon is one of the Il-Dae-Sam-Choe[一代三崔] who were the typical literacies through the late Shilla to the early Koryo Dynasty. They all studied at Tang Dynasty and they also passed the civil examination of Tang Dynasty. But their political participates were very different each other.
Cho Chiwon took part in Shilla Dynasty. He returned to Shilla Dynasty and submitted his literary works which were written at Tang Dynasty. Some of them were official records and some were works in behalf of senior officer. So some researcher devaluate his literary works. But it was the trend and the fashion of that time.
He hoped to serve at Shilla Dynasty. But his official service had many restrictions. The hardest barrier so which he couldn't overcome was that that was rooted in his social status. So he no more hoped his government, he retired to Mt. Kaya. It is regret that the talents like he couldn’t do his best at their home land. His desire was to become a court writer. But Shilla government was too backward in Medieval civilization.
He thought that literary works must be composed with many figures and composed under the rule of parallelism. Of course those tropes were the fashion of his time. But according to his thought we can also declare that literary works must be elaborated with many of literary devices.
He declared that literature was very important thing like the religion. Many Buddhist monks studied also Tang Dynasty. They said that all were dependent on the mind[心]，the mind was the last and the first one. The monks thought that the mind was more important than the mouth[P] that means the literacy or the letter or the written. But Choe Chiwon did not think so. He declared that the mind could do appear itself and maintain itself only with the letter. As this he prove the value of the literature.
As the Medieval poet and writer and a certain kind of philosopher, he is the first Medieval man in Korean history of literary thought.