Son of Park Gwang-jeon; volunteer in the Imjin and Jeongyu wars (pen name Okhyeon, nicknamed Namju Gosa)
| Life | 1560 ~ 1629 |
| Era | 조선 후기 |
| Clan | 진원 박씨 |
Park Geun-je (朴根悌, 1560-1629) of the Jinwon Park, courtesy name Ipbo and pen name Okhyeon, was nicknamed Namju Gosa ("Noble Scholar of the South"). Born in Boseong, he was a son of the royal-heir tutor Park Gwang-jeon and younger brother of Park Geun-hyo; his nephews were Geun-hyo's sons Park Chun-su and Park Chun-jang.
When the Imjin War began he followed his father with his brother into the Jeolla left-wing volunteers and contributed to recapturing Gaeryeong and Seongju. After the war he was named to a lowly post for merit but petitioned and did not take it. In the 1597 Jeongyu War, when his father was recommended as volunteer leader, he went out as aide and stayed beside him until his father died in camp on 18 November that year.
He then lived in seclusion and died in 1629. His father and brother had fought together as the "three fathers-and-sons uprising," and in the Second Manchu invasion four members of the clan took up arms so that a "Seven Worthies" uprising came from one family; his son Park Chun-ho was one of them.
When the enemy invaded Honam in the 1597 Jeongyu War and his father Park Gwang-jeon issued proclamations to become volunteer leader, Park Geun-je stayed by him as aide. After his father died in camp on 18 November that year, he did not seek office and lived quietly at home.
Namju Gosa means a noble scholar of the southern county, understood as an epithet reflecting his refusal, by petition, of the keeper post offered for merit after the Imjin War. The specific origin of the epithet was not confirmed in sources.
The tomb was not confirmed in this survey.