Shin Sukchu

• Born: 1417
• Died: 1475

Shin Sukchu was a Confucian scholar-official in the Joseon Dynasty Korean court. A member of a formal embassy from Joseon to the Muromachi shogunate in 1428, he was later named yonguijong (Chief State Councillor), and was also involved in the 1443 promulgation of the new hangul writing system.

Shin is perhaps most famous, however, for his 1471 book, Haedong chegukki, a compilation of the history, geography, language, and foreign relations of Japan and Ryûkyû.

References

• Lee Jeong Mi, "Cultural Expressions of Tokugawa Japan and Choson Korea: An Analysis of the Korean Embassies in the Eighteenth Century," PhD dissertation, University of Toronto (2008), 27.