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Sahaengrok was one of the books about travel to write facts during the journey. The traveler wrote impressions of facts about the momentous parts of travel. Therefore time and space of geographical designation and fact which was made up during the journey was important thing to writer. Sahaengrok as an object of interest to 'Sadaebu' was concernly written in the late period of Choseon Dynasty.
'Yeonwonjigji', Kim Kyeong Seon's Sahaengrok being a matter of in this article, is not exception. Kim Kyeong Seon, the minister of literature in Choseon Dynasty, discharged the duties of resistering and supervising the line of journey. He recognized the problem of the journey reiterated between Choseon Dynasty and China. So to speak, preparing the journey repeatedly, the change of geographical designations, alien landscape and features on the historic events between two countries raised the problem including the former practice.
On account of needing the guidebook, he gave birth to the 'Yeonwonjigji'. In the 'Gi' of the 'yeonwonjigji', he arranged the important parts of the journey between two countries. In the view of objectivity, he corrected the error of documents and arranged the various inheritance in the 'Gi' especially. He wrote it by the synthetic research to analyze the formerjourney record, historical documents and verbal message, not by his simple impressions. Therefore the 'Gi' was the core of the 'Yeonwonjigji'.