Late-Goryeo official; academician and minister of revenue; founder of the Pando Panseo-gong branch
| Life | 1275 |
| Era | 고려 후기 |
| Clan | 온양 방씨 |
Bang Seo (方曙) was a late-Goryeo official and founder of the Pando Panseo-gong (Panseo-gong) branch, the senior line of the Onyang Bang. Of the 13th generation, he was a son of Munjeong-gong Bang U-seon, top graduate of the 1269 National Academy examination and mayor of Pyongyang. Most of what is known of him comes from the clan genealogy and the Wikipedia articles and newspaper series based on it; no biography of him appears in official histories such as the Goryeosa.
According to the genealogy he was born in 1275 with the courtesy name Wonmyeong, held the rank of bongik daebu and served as academician of the Office of Royal Decrees and pando panseo, head of the office in charge of households and finance during the period of Yuan overlordship, which gave the branch its name. Clan sources call him Jangam-gong or give his posthumous name as Jangheon, and some say he served as grand academician under King Chungnyeol.
Traces of his family appear in several records. The Suncheon Kim genealogy names Kim Cheon-ho, a ministry director and pacification commissioner of Gangneung, as his father-in-law, and the examination roster appended to the Seoktanjip is said to list Seoktan Yi Jon-o, a famously outspoken late-Goryeo censor, as his daughter's son. His sons are recorded as Bang Eon-hwi, who passed the classics examination in 1342 and became a scholar of the Royal Secretariat, and Bang Cheon-bong, a senior general made a merit subject in 1363 for repelling the Red Turbans with Jeong Se-un in 1359; that award appears in the Goryeosa annals of King Gongmin for the eleventh month of 1363. Clan sources also say Bang Eon-hwi became father-in-law to King Chungmok and Prince Oncheon, but this is genealogical tradition not confirmed elsewhere.
Bang Eon-hwi's son was the late-Goryeo loyalist Bang Sun, whose descendants settled at Sutgol and Botonggol in Seongnam. The Joseon magistrate Bang Jin, the Panseo-gong descendants who received a royal instruction from the Ministry of Rites in 1774, and the modern Bang Jeong-hwan also came from this branch, today the largest of the seven.
Founder of the Pando Panseo-gong branch. The line passed to his sons Bang Eon-hwi and Bang Cheon-bong and his grandson Bang Sun; later descendants include Bang Jin, Bang U-jeong and Bang Jeong-hwan.