Veritable Records of Hyojong

《Veritable Records of King Hyojong》(孝宗大王實錄) or 《Veritable Records of Hyojong》(孝宗實錄) records the events of the reign of Joseon Hyojong from the fifth lunar month of 1649 to the fifth lunar month of 1659. It consists of 21 volumes in 22 books and forms part of the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty.

Overview

This is a set of Veritable Records that records, in annalistic form, historical facts about the overall state affairs of Hyojong's reign over a total of ten years, from the fifth lunar month of 1649 (the year of Hyojong's accession) to the fifth lunar month of 1659 (the tenth year of Hyojong's reign). It consists of 21 volumes in 22 books and forms part of the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty. The formal title, the title on the frontispiece, and the title on the printed page's center fold (판심제)¹ are all Veritable Records of King Hyojong.

In the sixth month of 1660, the year after Hyojong's death (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month of the first year of Hyeonjong's reign, 12 June), the Chunchugwan proposed compiling the records of Hyojong's reign.² On the eighteenth day of the sixth month (the eleventh day of the fifth lunar month), Yi Gyeong-seok was appointed chief compiler (총재관).³ After the Compilation Office was established, some officials were punished for negligence in their duties,⁴ but compilation proceeded without major difficulty and was completed in the second month of 1661 (the second year of Hyeonjong's reign), nine months later. On the eleventh day of the sixth month of that year (the fifteenth day of the fifth lunar month), Hyeonjong bestowed rewards on the compilers of the records.⁵

The compilers of the records were: Yi Gyeong-seok as chief compiler; three senior officials of the Office of Editing (도청당상), including ; four staff members of the Office of Editing (도청낭청), including Mok Gyeom-seon; four senior officials of the First Section (일방당상), including ; seven staff members of the First Section (일방낭청); four senior officials of the Second Section (이방당상), including ; eight staff members of the Second Section (이방낭청); four senior officials of the Third Section (삼방당상), including Kim Nam-jung; seven staff members of the Third Section (삼방낭청); and sixteen staff members of the Records Section (등록낭청), for a total of 58 people. In the period of , beginning in the 1920s, it was published as a together with other veritable records.