Official under Seongjong and Yeonsangun; Director of the Office of Special Advisors and Inspector-General; honored as an incorruptible official; pen name Jitoedang
| Life | 1505 |
| Era | 조선 전기 |
| Clan | 칠원 윤씨 |
Yun Seok-bo (d. 1505) was an official under Seongjong and Yeonsangun whose seat was Chilwon, with the pen name Jitoedang (知退堂). He passed the civil examination in 1472 (Seongjong 3) and after serving as magistrate of Punggi became Director of the Office of Special Advisors and Inspector-General. He is the best-known Chilwon Yun listed among the incorruptible officials (Cheongbaengni).
He was exiled when the Purge of 1504 (Gapja Sahwa) broke out under Yeonsangun and died the following year; Korean Wikipedia gives 1505. His honesty was recognized by later selection as an incorruptible official, a selection some sources place in the reign of Seonjo. Accounts also differ over his posthumous honor: the local-culture encyclopedia on Chilwon Yun says he was posthumously made Royal Secretary, while the Wikipedia entry on his great-grandson Yun Tak-yeon says Vice Minister of Personnel, so both are given here.
His son was Yun Pung-hyeong (pen name Songwoldang), governor of Gangwon and Vice Director of the Office of Special Advisors, and his great-grandson was Yun Tak-yeon, who died in service in Hamgyeong during the Imjin War. Three or four generations of upright high civil officials show the Chilwon Yun establishing itself as a scholar-official family in early Joseon. He is enshrined with Yun Ji, Yun Ja-dang and Yun Tak-yeon at Hongpo Seowon in Chilseo, Haman.
Sources differ on Yun Seok-bo's dates and posthumous office. Wikipedia gives his death as 1505, and his posthumous honor appears as Royal Secretary (local-culture encyclopedia) or Vice Minister of Personnel (the Yun Tak-yeon entry); one account also places his selection as an incorruptible official in Seonjo's reign. Such divergence is common for early Joseon figures, so Jokbo World separates what is confirmed from what is disputed.
At Gyenae-ri, Chilseo-myeon, Haman, the site of the Chilwon Yun founder's tomb, stands Hongpo Seowon, founded in 1782 (Jeongjo 6) to enshrine Yun Hwan, Yun Ja-dang, Yun Ji, Yun Seok-bo and Yun Tak-yeon. It was torn down under the Daewongun's academy-abolition order and rebuilt on its present site in 1980. The line from his son Yun Pung-hyeong to his great-grandson Yun Tak-yeon is presented as an example of an upright family tradition carried into office.
The location of his tomb was not confirmed in this research.
Son Yun Pung-hyeong (governor of Gangwon, Vice Director of the Office of Special Advisors); great-grandson Yun Tak-yeon (Minister of Punishments and Taxation, Gwangguk merit subject).