Seungjeongwon ilgi

Seungjeongwon ilgi or Journal of the Royal Secretariat is a daily record of the Seungjeongwon, Royal Secretariat during the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (1392–1910). It records the king's public life and his interactions with the bureaucracy on a daily basis.[1] The record was written in Classical Chinese.[2]: 74 

Seungjeongwon ilgi
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationSeungjeongwon ilgi
McCune–ReischauerSŭngjŏngwŏn ilgi

It is the 303rd national treasure of Korea and was designated as part of UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme.[3][4] UNESCO confirmed Seungjuongwon ilgi as the world's longest continuous record of a king's daily life in 2001 and designated it in the Memory of the World Programme alongside Jikji.

It is the subject of the Korean TV series Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung.

See also

References
  1. JaHyun Kim Haboush (1988). The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yŏngjo and the Politics of Sagacity. Columbia University Press. p. 251. ISBN 0-231-06657-0.
  2. Orchiston, Wayne; Green, David A.; Strom, Richard (2014). New Insights From Recent Studies in Historical Astronomy: Following in the Footsteps of F. Richard Stephenson. Springer.
  3. 승정원일기 (承政院日記) (in Korean). Empas/EncyKorea.
  4. 승정원일기 (承政院日記) (in Korean). Empas/Britannica.
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