ENGLISH RECORD 72
Kim Il-bu and Jeongyeok Special Archive
The text, editions and intellectual influence are traceable; 360-day, axial and dated-disaster claims require exact passages and independent scientific evidence.01 · WHAT IT IS
Overview
Kim Il-bu's Jeongyeok proposes a balanced Later-Heaven order through a new arrangement of Change cosmology.
02 · ORIGINAL TEXT AND EARLIEST SOURCE
What can be traced?
03 · HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The world behind the text
KOREAN ARCHIVE 82 · HISTORY OF CHANGE
Kim Il-bu and Jeongyeok
A new order after the Yijing—and the Later-Heaven transition
This dossier restores Jeongyeok as a nineteenth-century Korean philosophy of change rather than a disaster timetable. Kim Il-bu's text, early disciples' commentary, religious reception and internet prophecy are kept in separate evidence layers.01 · PERSON & LIFE
One compact book proposed a new phase of Change
Kim Il-bu, born Kim Hang (金恒), was a late-Joseon Confucian scholar of Change. He studied and taught around Yeonsan in today's Nonsan and is linked to the intellectual lineage of Yeondam Yi Un-gyu. Jeongyeok, reportedly completed in 1885, is the central work attached to his name.Life
From late Joseon to the eve of the Korean Empire
Jeongyeok completed
Date reported by the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture
Kim Hang
Also searchable as Kim Il-bu or Ilbu
Yeonsan · Nonsan
Centre of teaching and the later lineage
- BirthBorn in the area of present-day Nonsan, according to biographical tradition.
- Confucian and Change studiesStudied the classics and was influenced by Yi Un-gyu's Later-Heaven teaching.
- Jeongyeok completedPresented a new trigram order and a theory of Later-Heaven time.
- Teaching at YeonsanStudents gathered around Guksabong in Dogok-ri to study the work.
- DeathDisciples and commentaries carried the Jeongyeok tradition forward.
02 · THREE ORDERS OF CHANGE
Fuxi, King Wen and Kim Il-bu are three scenes in one inquiry
Fuxi order
The Earlier-Heaven trigrams symbolize a fundamental yin-yang structure of nature.
→King Wen · Yijing
The Later-Heaven trigrams and 64 hexagrams became a framework for judging change within conflict and motion.
→Jeongyeok
Kim Il-bu argued that opposition tends toward a stage of balanced yin and yang rather than repeating forever.
03 · CONCEPT MAP
Five ideas reveal the architecture of Jeongyeok
Jeongyeok cannot be unlocked by translating its characters alone. Number, trigram, direction, calendar and verse move together. Establish these five axes first, then read text and commentary side by side.First separate the book's three layers
Dae-yeok-seo
PrefaceA compact opening that declares the relation between Change (易) and calendar (曆).
Sibo-il-eon
Core of the first partDevelops 10, 5 and 15; the five Metal–Fire hymns; positional numbers; and Former/Later-Heaven time.
Sibil-il-eon
Core of the second partDevelops the return of 10 and 1, River Chart and Luo Writing, Thunder–Wind positions and the operation of Later Heaven.
Three Ultimates and 15/11
The relations of Limitless 10, August Centre 5 and Great Ultimate 1 organize the two main parts. These numbers are an internal grammar of body, centre and operation—not date codes.
- Text guide
- Openings of Sibo-il-eon and Sibil-il-eon
- Key number / structure
- 10＋5 / 10＋1
- Evidence boundary
- Separate textual numerology from later religious readings
Former and Later Heaven
Former Heaven names an order marked by imbalance and conflict; Later Heaven an order of matured harmony. Begin with structural states, not a single year on a timeline.
- Text guide
- Calendar and cycle-number sections
- Key number / structure
- former order → new order
- Evidence boundary
- A dated gaebyeok claim needs its own source
Balanced yin and yang
Yin and yang obtain proper places without one subordinating the other. This links rearranged trigrams to an ideal of harmony in human and social order.
- Text guide
- Jeongyeok trigram chart; Thunder–Wind sections
- Key number / structure
- imbalance → balance
- Evidence boundary
- Do not flatten it into a modern political slogan
Exchange of Metal and Fire
Metal and Fire exchange or communicate positions. Read the 4·9 and 2·7 pairs, the five hymns, pitch-pipes and calendar discussion together.
- Text guide
- Metal–Fire Hymns I–V
- Key number / structure
- 4·9 ↔ 2·7
- Evidence boundary
- Separate symbolic exchange from physical astronomy
Correct calendar and 360 days
A regular 12×30 cycle figures perfected time. Reading it as a change in Earth's orbit moves beyond philosophy and requires astronomical evidence.
- Text guide
- Fifth Metal–Fire Hymn; annual-cycle numbers
- Key number / structure
- 30×12＝360
- Evidence boundary
- Keep symbolic calendar apart from the observed 365.24-day year
FIVE READINGS · 金火五頌
The five Metal–Fire hymns unfold one core idea in five modes
- IFirst hymn
Scenes of completion
Sage, general, farmer and painter culminate in an image of completed order and tuned sound.
- IISecond hymn
Principle and number
Northeast stability, southwest communication and Metal 9 / Fire 7 express the logic of exchange.
- IIIThird hymn
Colour and atmosphere
Red and white, wind and music render the meeting of Fire and Metal as poetic experience.
- IVFourth hymn
Direction and diagram
The 4·9 and 2·7 pairs form the Metal–Fire gate alongside the positions of 1·6 and 3·8.
- VFifth hymn
Time and emptiness
Lunar phases, pitch-pipes and time units converge on a 360-day cycle and end in emptiness and non-position.
Four tools to keep beside the text
Sexagenary cycle
A reference for reading stems and branches as temporal and directional coordinates
River Chart · Luo Writing
A diagram comparing directional number pairs and the nine palaces
Trigrams · 64 hexagrams
A baseline for comparing Fuxi, King Wen and Jeongyeok arrangements
Pitch-pipes · 28 lodges
Aids for passages where musical tuning and celestial symbolism meet
04 · TEXTUAL GENEALOGY
Jeongyeok must be read as a chain of documents
Jeongyeok text
The core work attributed to Kim. Quotations need an edition and page.
Jeongyeok Wonui
An early commentary attributed to disciple Yi Sang-ryong during Kim's lifetime. Text and disciple explanation remain separate.
Lineage commentaries
Hasang-yeok and later writers explained the difficult diagrams and numbers; each interpreter and date must be named.
New-religious reception
Jeungsan and Ilbu-derived groups expanded Later Heaven into religious cosmology. Denominational scripture is not silently merged into Kim's text.
Internet timetables
Posts attach pole shifts, disasters and Korean centrality to named years. Without first publication and a quotation, they stay unverified.
05 · CLAIM AUDIT
The more famous the claim, the more tightly its layer is checked
| Circulating claim | Traceable basis | Current status |
|---|---|---|
| Former Heaven changes into Later Heaven | Connected to the work's central structure. | Text-based · meaning disputed |
| A balanced yin-yang order opens | Traceable as the philosophical direction of its diagrams and numbers. | Text-based · symbolic reading |
| The year becomes 360 days | Linked to perfect-cycle and calendar readings; literal astronomy remains disputed. | Text/commentary comparison needed |
| Earth's axis becomes upright | Concrete wording is widespread in later Jeongyeok and religious explanation. | Exact text and edition required |
| Korea leads after a great disaster | Modern religious and internet narratives combine several passages. | Possible later attribution |
| Gaebyeok completes in a named year | Different calculations generate different dates from the same symbols. | No fixed Jeongyeok timetable |
06 · INTELLECTUAL LINEAGE
Jeongyeok is a junction in Korea's gaebyeok tradition
Yijing
Yin-yang, trigrams, hexagrams and the language of change
→17Donghak
Nineteenth-century visions of a new age and transformed humanity
→18Jeungsan traditions
Later Heaven and mutual life-giving expanded into religious cosmology
→05Tanheo
Huayan, Yijing and Jeongyeok joined in a reading of civilizational change
→07 · SCIENCE BOUNDARY
Symbolic time and the physical Earth require different evidence
Once 360 days or an upright axis is read as a physical event, an independent scientific test is required.Symbolic · correlative
360 can express a complete circle and balanced Later-Heaven time within Change cosmology.
Astronomical observation
A modern year is about 365.24 days. A shift to 360 would require a major change in Earth's orbit or orbital speed.
Evidence check
No observations show such an abrupt orbital change or physical axis-straightening underway. A philosophical proposition does not automatically become a forecast.
08 · SALGIL ASSESSMENT
SALGIL assessment
Jeongyeok is a real modern Korean text of Change. That does not make every online disaster timetable a direct prophecy by Kim Il-bu.
Kim's life, the 1885 completion tradition, the text and its intellectual influence are traceable. Its strongest documented thesis is a movement from Former-Heaven conflict toward Later-Heaven harmony. Claims about 360 days, Earth's axis and a fixed gaebyeok year require an exact passage, edition and interpreter; the physical claims currently lack scientific evidence.
09 · SOURCES