Seungjeongwon ilgi | |
Hangul | 승정원
일기 |
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Hanja | 承政院
日記 |
Revised Romanization | Seungjeongwon ilgi |
McCune–Reischauer | Sŭngjŏngwŏn 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
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.