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朴彭年 bak paengnyeon chwigeumheon insu 仁叟 醉琴軒 pak paengnyeon
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pak paengnyeon

pak paengnyeon -lrb- 1417 -- 1456 -rrb- was a scholar-official of the early joseon dynasty , and is known as one of the six martyred ministers .
he was born to a yangban family of the suncheon pak lineage , and was the son of high minister pak jeongrim .
he passed the lower national service examination at a royal visitation in 1434 , and was later appointed to the hall of worthies by sejong .
in the 1440s , he participated with other members of the hall of worthies in the creation of the `` hunminjeongeum '' and the creation of the hangul alphabet .
he passed the higher literary examination in 1447 , and rose to vice-minister of justice under danjong in 1454 .
in 1455 , danjong was overthrown by sejo , arising the ire of pak and many other officials .
pak continued to serve in high office ; he was appointed as governor of chungcheong in 1455 , and again as vice-minister of justice in 1456 .
he joined in a plot to overthrow sejo and restore danjong in 1456 , but the plot was uncovered through the betrayal of fellow plotter kim jil .
sejo admired pak 's abilities and offered to pardon him if he were to deny his involvement and acknowledge sejo as his king .
when he refused to repent from his deeds , sejo argued that it was useless to deny his authority now since pak had already called himself a `` royal servant '' and received royal grains from him .
pak , however , denied this and it was indeed discovered that pak purposefully misspelled words `` royal servant '' in all of his reports -lrb- he wrote word meaning `` huge '' -lrb- 巨 -rrb- instead of `` royal servant '' , 臣 -rrb- and never used royal grains but instead stored them unsused in a storage .
pak died in prison from torture .
all the males in his family were executed and females were enslaved .
a shrine to pak is located in sinni-myeon , chungju city , chungcheongbuk-do .
it was established in the 18th century , when pak and his fellows had come to be viewed as model subjects .
another memorial dating to 1688 stands in jayang-dong , dong-gu , daejeon , at the former site of his official residence .
a few of pak 's sijo poems have survived .
