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[Gallery "Time of Courage"] Song Kyung-up 20. Kim Sook-heung, a Korean general

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Chae June

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Star News will host the Gallery's 'Time of Courage' to introduce works of art with writer Song Kyung-heup. Writer Song Kyung-heup is working on reinterpreting historical figures and embodying them through his world of work, 'General Sang'. This project, "The Age of Courage," introduces the works completed by Song Kyung-heup and informs the world of his works.  The contents of the serialized gallery are the author's opinion. (Editor's note)
Star News will host the Gallery's 'Time of Courage' to introduce works of art with writer Song Kyung-heup. Writer Song Kyung-heup is working on reinterpreting historical figures and embodying them through his world of work, 'General Sang'. This project, "The Age of Courage," introduces the works completed by Song Kyung-heup and informs the world of his works. The contents of the serialized gallery are the author's opinion. (Editor's note)
/Photo provided = Song Kyung-up
/Photo provided = Song Kyung-up

Name of work: Gwiju Tiger Kim Sook-heung

Size of Work: 250 mm + 500 mm + 450 mm (h)

the words of the writer

Kim Sook-heung was a general who played an active role in the Kitan War with Yang Gyu.

Yang-gyu has a personal battle left in Goryeo history, but Kim Sook-heung has no such record. His traces appeared with Eon-jae and Yang-gyu, and the end was also with Yang-gyu.

The epic drama "The War of the Goryeo Kingdom," produced by KBS, features numerous previously unknown Goryeo war heroes. A general from Balhae's bereaved family and a warlord... Even the local clan forces and the Guard, who supported Goryeo's royal authority, literally blocked the rebellion and won with all-out war.

"Kang Gam-chan" is a representative of "Goryeo" that most people know, but other people were unfamiliar... Among them, Kim Sook-heung was special. He was an ordinary low-level warrior with no background at all, but he showed his skills in practice and was worthy of being called the Grim Reaper to the Khitan Army. In the drama, a fictitious narrative of losing one's parents to the rebellion was added, but it was urgent and convincing. Against this backdrop, Kim Sook-heung was such an uncontrollable enmity toward the Khitan people that even Yang-gyu had to be restrained, which was the reason for his battle.

/Photo provided = Song Kyung-up
/Photo provided = Song Kyung-up

Kim Sook-heung speculates that he may be a representative of the general public sentiment of the Goryeo border residents who were looting or atrocities of the Khitan people at that time. The development of this drama about Kim Sook-heung, which had no background left for the writer, felt natural, and it became a point where I remembered the character Kim Sook-heung with Kang Gam-chan and Yang-gyu. He continued to engage in guerrilla warfare in the Guizhou region and tormented the Khitan army, which became an important starting point for defeating the Khitan army's morale and eventually leading to defeat.

The end is also very dramatic, with Yang Kyu confronting the Khitan army with only a small number of separate units to buy time for evacuees who are evacuating, an act that sacrificed itself for helpless residents while predicting death.

Kim Sook-heung's last was the most courageous act a soldier can show in a war. This is because the act of a soldier giving up his or her life to protect the people they need to protect is a scene that reveals the reason for the existence of a soldier. In honor of 'Kim Sook-heung' who showed the true courage of soldiers...

/Photo provided = Song Kyung-up
/Photo provided = Song Kyung-up

Kim Sookheung is

I can't tell my age as well as where I came from. Most of the information on the figures of the Goryeo Dynasty is insufficient. It is also the result of nearly 200 years of efforts by Joseon, the next era of Goryeo, to erase Goryeo records. "Goryeosa" and "Goryeosayo" are Goryeo history books that the Joseon regime reduced to suit their taste. Joseon discarded all books referenced to write Goryeo history, as it did when Goryeo wrote Samgusa. Therefore, Joseon did not leave "Goryeojijiji," and all the librarians who barely survived among the records that Joseon could not erase disappeared from the Japanese colonial era. It is evidence that the librarians that Shin Chae-ho referred to are not currently left in Korea.

In 1010, when King Seongjong of the Khitan led 400,000 troops to invade Goryeo and capture Gaeseong, Kim Sook-heung attacked Jungnangjang Boryang (保良) and Khitan-gun and cut down more than 10,000 Khitan-guns when they returned.

The following year, in 1011, he reportedly defeated the spearhead of the Khitan in the Aejeon area and cut off more than 1,000 people. However, he was killed with Yang Gyu (와양) after being attacked on a large scale by the Khitan.

/Photo provided = Song Kyung-up
/Photo provided = Song Kyung-up

Kim Sook-heung in The Librarian

The story of Kim Sook-heung appears in Goryeo Temple and Goryo Temple. However, in the remaining librarians to this day, Kim Sook-heung was evaluated as an extra in history. This is because Kim Sook-heung was even named when discussing Yang-gyu.

It is the first record that Kim Sook-heung appeared for the first time on the record that during the Second Yeoyo War, when King Seongjong of the Khitan retreated from Gaegyeong, he attacked with Jungnangjang Boryang as a guise villa and killed 10,000 Khitan troops.

There are also records of portraits, and in the 6th year of King Munjong (1052), the king hung their portraits in Gonggonggak (功臣閣) to honor the achievements of Yang Gyu and Kim Sook-heung, making them paragon for future generations.

/Photo provided = Song Kyung-up
/Photo provided = Song Kyung-up

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