Historians in Korea be like

Historians have quite a hard job. Cataloging history objectively can be hard. Especially when the King of Korea wants to chop your head off for it.

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[EuropaTelesBTR]

Things to learn with Korean historiographers:
- Record everything
- 100% neutrality
- Backup copies

[notalizard]

"Please don't write that down"

"Well I wasn't going to but you've kinda talked me into it"

[drekbleh]

"Yup. This is going into the cringe compilation."

- Korean historian probably

[theicepickthatkilledtrotsk]

''A recorder wrote both Taejong's fall and his words not to record it'' I love how that guy was playing with fire.

[HazakunaJr]

Other country: Historical data is rare, so historians struggle to find it.
Korea: It is recorded that the king pooped at 7:36:24 PM on May 1, 1469.

[knpark]

When the king asked the chroniclers if he could have a peak on those Sacho, those chroniclers will politely refuse, and then *write down the fact that the king was turned down from reading the Sacho* on that same Sacho.

The record survived because the Sillok had four separate backups in four distant mountains all across Joseon. The closest call was during the Imjin War when all but one backup copy was destroyed. The moral of the story: always backup your data, my friends.

Update: TIL in the Seungjeongwon Ilgi, which is about *five times as massive as the Sillok, * there are SEVERAL records about *the length of a ringworm thrown up by the king.* I didn't want to know this, but now that I learned it against my wishes, I don't want others to not know about this because it is not fair.😂

[Revolutionary_Fish]

You know shit are real when some people going to lose their head thanks to an Angry Ancient Korean Wikipedia Moderators

[Pioneer_DE]

Kinda impressive how Korea kept so much of their history documented

[BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

The fact that they managed to have both an incredibely unbiased and amazingly preserved is truly an achievement of the ages.
Real chad behaviour right there!

[AlphaCastor]

태종실록 7권
King Taejong Annals Volume 7

태종 4년(1404) 2월 8일 4번째 기사
The 4th record of the February 8, 4th year of King Taejong reign(1404)

親御弓矢, 馳馬射獐, 因馬仆而墜, 不傷。 顧左右曰: "勿令史官知之。"
친히 활과 화살을 가지고 말을 달려 노루를 쏘다가 말이 거꾸러짐으로 인하여 말에서 떨어졌으나 상하지는 않았다. 좌우를 돌아보며 말하기를, "사관이 알게 하지 말라." 하였다.
While (the king) was hunting roe deer on horseback with a bow and arrow, he fell because the horse bows, but was not injured. He looked left and right and said, “Don’t let the recorders know.”

[finfiorflowerfinders]

One of the editor of Silok in King Taejong (Yes, the same guy who fell from the horseback) era, Insaeng Min, almost went to the stalker level. He followed king even when he’s going for private places, and when rejected to follow, he hid / disguised and followed him anyway. There is at least 4 entries in Silok where the king or Insaeng's college complain about his obsession. The king laid him off eventually (about 4 months he was hired). The king seemed to be so traumatized, that when discussing about to what extent will historians record things, he mentioned “that creepy guy who peeps and stalks”. YES, this story is also recorded on Silok, and YES the king saying “creepy guy” is also on Silok.

[callmefox]

I love the fact that the very FACT that the King Said to "Don't write that down" when he fell off his horse MEANS that it was recorded and it was preserved.

[abcdef]

We know that the King fell from the Horse, but we still don't know the opinion of the Horse in this question.

[mikdan]

Korean historian: Your Majesty, Joe has arrived
Korean king: who's Joe?
Korean historian: 😏

[DonVigaDeFierro]

All that and they still failed to document the Finno-Korean hyperwar...

[benoliver]

Damn they did better at managing history with stone, wood and threats then what we can even imagine.

[jocosesonata]

GigaChad Korean historiographers.

World history could benefit with such level of quality, principle, and discipline.

Their only job is to record history no matter what, doesn't matter if it's good or bad, it will be recorded.

[sebastianprimomija]

Not gonna lie having impartial records of your country that go back hundreds of years is baller status when it comes to civilizations. It shows your stability and mastery over beaucracy.

[feasogachsionnach]

Historical annals in general tend to be full of hilarious shit like this. You should look at Irish annals and the mayhem in those.

[tofumo]

There was actually another sillok that was made by the Goryeo dynasty(the previous royal family), which was unfortunately completely lost during the Imjin war. Just imagine the amount of knowledge that was lost.