Pages 65-71 – Kim Seung-u – ‘Travel Accounts of a Korean Envoy in London- Yi Chongŭng’s Soyu kyŏnmunrok’

This study introduces the Sŏyu kyŏnmunrok (西遊見聞錄 ‘Records of a Journey to the West’, 1902), a work which consists of a kasa (歌辭, a traditional Korean vernacular verse form) of approximately 400 verses. Moreover, efforts are made herein to analyse the general characteristics of this particular work. The Sŏyu kyŏnmunrok was compiled by Yi Chongŭng (1853–1920), an individual who was dispatched by th...