Choe Bu Returns to Korea

Date: July 12, 1488 • Location: Jongno-gu, Korea, Republic of

Choe Bu, an official of the Joseon dynasty, returned to Korea after months of shipwrecked travel in China.

Choe Bu was a Korean diarist, historian, politician, and travel writer during the early Joseon Dynasty. He was most well known for the account of his shipwrecked travels in China from February to July 1488, during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). He was eventually banished from the Joseon court in 1498 and executed in 1504 during two political purges. However, in 1506 he was exonerated and given posthumous honors by the Joseon court.