Official and filial son, author of Samgajip; pen name Samgajeong or Samgadang
Same-name figures:
박수량(朴守良) — Early-Joseon official honoured as an incorruptible (Cheongbaengni); Second Minister of the Privy Council
| Life | 1475 ~ 1546 |
| Era | 조선 중기(성종~명종) |
| Clan | 강릉 박씨 |
Park Su-ryang (1475-1546), courtesy name Gun-geo and pen name Samgajeong (Samgadang), was a mid-Joseon official of the Gangneung Park clan. His father was instructor Park Seung-hyu and his mother a daughter of Yi Jung-won of the Yeonghae Yi clan. Filial and fraternal from youth, he passed the licentiate examination in 1504 (one passage says the classics examination), but did not sit the higher examination after his mother's death. Though King Yeonsangun enforced a 27-day mourning rule, he completed the three-year mourning in a hut and was granted a filial-piety gate in 1508.
He befriended Kim Jeong in 1516, was nominated in the 1518 Hyeollyang examination and served as Chungcheong investigator, magistrate of Yonggung and Saseomsi assistant. Asked by King Jungjong whether the rule of Yao and Shun could be achieved now, he reportedly replied that human nature is the same then and now. As magistrate he is said to have reconciled two quarrelling brothers who burned their lawsuit papers.
Dismissed in the 1519 Gimyo purge, he returned home and spent his remaining years with his kinsman Park Gong-dal at Ssanghanjeong. His collected writings Samgajip survive; his tomb is in Mino-ri, Sacheon, and he is enshrined at Hyanghyeonsa. He is a different person from the incorruptible official of the same name (Taein Park, 1491-1554) from Jangseong.
For keeping full mourning under Yeonsangun he was granted a filial-piety gate in 1508. A monument and pavilion by descendants are noted at Bangdong-ri (the erection date was not confirmed).
The Hapyeong village entry says he received an azalea cane from Kim Jeong in 1516 and answered with a poem worrying that his upright nature might invite disaster; Kim was later executed in the purge.
He and Park Gong-dal built Ssanghanjeong in 1520; his writings survive in Samgajip.
Father Park Seung-hyu, kinsman Park Gong-dal, disciple Park Eok-chu and descendant Park Sa-hyeong.
In Mino-ri, Sacheon-myeon, Gangneung; a tomb stele and a filial-piety monument are noted.