16th-century Korean philosophers

Joseon civil servant & Neo-Confucianist (1536 – 1584)

Korean Confucian scholar (1502 -1571)

Premier in the Joseon Dynasty (1539-1609)

Korean philosopher (1482-1520)

Chief State Councilior of Joseon

Korean politician (1471-1527)

Korean scholar and politician (1501-1572)

Korean Joseon dynasty politician and educator, poet (1543-1620)

Korean Confucianist (1535-1598)

Korean scholar (1534-1599)

Hyujeong (, 1520–1604), also called Seosan Daesa () was a Korean Seon master. As was common for monks in this time, he travelled from place to place, living in a succession of monasteries. Buddhist monks had been forced to keep a low profile since General Yi Seonggye had been forced to eject Buddhism from its state of total permeation of government in order to gain the support of Neo-Confucian scholar-officials to consolidate his position against his Buddhist political opponents when he overthrew Gongyang of Goryeo in 1392 to become King Taejo of Joseon.

Joseon politician and scholar (1532-1590)

Joseon dynasty civil servant (1538 – 1593)

Joseon Dynasty politician and writer (1533-1601)

Korean philosopher

Korean scholar (1567–1618)

Samyeongdang (1544–1610), also known by his dharma name Yujeong, was a Korean Buddhist monk during the Joseon era. He is sometimes identified by his art name, Song-un. He was born to a family of the Im clan in Miryang, Gyeongsang Province. After the deaths of his mother in 1558 and his father in 1559, he became a monk at Jikjisa on Hwangaksan in Gimcheon.

Joseon politicians and scholar (1535-1587)

Korean philosopher (1519-1583)

politician and philosopher (1459-1512)

Korean politician

Korean Joseon Dynasty's writer and politician (1554-1637)