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Dasangyo Bridge
Dasangyo Bridge in cheonggyecheon in Dasangyo Bridge Dasan is the pen name of Jeong Yak-yong, a practical scholar of the Late Joseon Dynasty. Sammija Jeong
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Dasangyo Bridge Dasan is the pen name of Jeong Yak-yong, a practical scholar of the Late Joseon Dynasty. Sammija Jeong Yak-yong’s childhood pen name was Sammija, which meant three eyebrows. After he suffered from a smallpox when he was young, a scar was left next to his right eyebrow. This made him look like as if he had three eyebrows, so his old brother made a pen name for him, which was Sammija. Jeong was so intelligent that he compiled his poetical works before the age of ten; the name of this poetry book was ‘Sammija’. In 1776, he moved to Hanyang when his father, Jeong Jae-won became Hojojwarang(a name of Joseon’s government position). From this moment, Jeong Yak-yong became a practical scholar. Jeong started to live under the Namsan Mountain after he entered Seonggyungwan, the premier educational institution of Joseon at the age of 22. He called his residence ‘Nusan Jeongja’, and it is near the Asiana Airlines company building in Hoehyeon-dong today. Demise of King Jeongjo and Yeoyudang Jeong Yak Yong was at his golden age of life while he lived in Nusan Jeongja. He gained King Jeongjo’s trust and designed one of the king’s reformation idea, Suwon Hwaseong Fortress. He was appointed to an important office until his 39th birthday and was expected to be the prime minister of Joseon in the future as far as King Jeongjo was alive. However, King Jeongjo died in 1800 at the age of 49, the Noronbyeok, a faction that opposed the reformation came into power, and Jeong Yak-yong was under the risk of death. It was the time when he gave a name for his birthplace, ‘Yeoyudang.’ This term meant 'live carefully like as if you are crossing a stream during winter.’ Jeong barely survived, but he was banished for 18 years to Gangjin, Jeollanam-do. Dasan Jeong Yak-yong In the eighth year of his banishment, Jeong Yak-yong moved his house under the Mangdeok Mountain of Gangjin, where there were many natural tea plants, and he decided to call his pen name ‘Dasan’, which meant a mountain with many tea plants. Jeong Yak-yong did not get frustrated, and wrote a number of books including Mokmin Shimseo, becoming a great scholar of the latter Joseon Dynasty. To honor the life of Jeong Yak-Yong, the Dasangyo Bridge stands at Cheonggyecheon.
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