Hwang Byeong-joong, a modern Confucian scholar, was a Confucian scholar and writer from Gwangyang, Jeollanam-do. He was an ordinary local intellectual who stayed in his hometown and worked hard to inherit the studies of senior Confucian scholars. Howe...
Hwang Byeong-joong, a modern Confucian scholar, was a Confucian scholar and writer from Gwangyang, Jeollanam-do. He was an ordinary local intellectual who stayed in his hometown and worked hard to inherit the studies of senior Confucian scholars. However, in 1908, his brother and uncle resisted Japan, which led him to escape to Seoul and be arrested by Japanese military police. After returning to his hometown, he settled his family affairs and practiced it for the original intention as an old man. His literature contains the complex inner thoughts of Confucian intellectuals at the time, and the main emotions were agony and sighing. In particular, poems mourning the deaths of people around them embodied the righteous deaths of intellectuals at the time in literature. The main characteristics of his poetry world were the intransigence and intellectual belief in Japanese imperialism that lasted for about 30 years. This was a characteristic that contrasts with other works of the same period with many non-political and unrealistic themes.