Mongmin Simseo
How fairly and without personal greed am I handling the authority and responsibilities given to me?
📝ONGO's Reflection
This book, which Dasan Jeong Yak-yong wrote through his long years of exile, is no mere manual of administration. Within it lie the essence of leadership and a profound compassion for others. Discussing the bearing a magistrate must hold in caring for the people, he insists, again and again, upon gong, the public good, and cheong, integrity. Even in the small organization or the household I belong to, if some role has been given to me, I am made to ask whether I am keeping that place clean and free of private greed. It is as though I can hear the voice of an elder, stern and yet warm.
"Integrity is the primary duty of an official, the source of all goodness, and the root of all virtues."Jeong Yak-yong, Mongmin Simseo
"청렴은 수령의 본무요, 모든 선의 근원이자 모든 덕의 뿌리다."
🌱Apply It Today
Consider your role and authority at work or at home. Examine yourself strictly: have you ever treated someone unfairly, or quietly taken advantage for your own convenience?
