Kim Jeong-hee (Chusa) was calligrapher and a painter. He was been known for various scholars but also a literary artist. Chuas was born at Chungcheong-do, Joseon on June 3th, 1786 and passed away in 1856. His great-great-grandfather was Joseon's royal family who had no child, and adopted a boy to carry the Kim's family line. Chuas was so bright. At age of 3 he started imitating calligraphy with brush and showed genius of mastering the old and new learning around age of 20, as gaining to be fame inside and outside of the country.
With his father had a chance to travel to Yeon-Keong in China. About 40 days in Yeon-Keong, he met Ruan Yuan, Weng Fang-gang and become a Chusa's teachers. They were known as China's representative scholar. Chusa has been able to absorb Chinese knowledge culture quickly and it's greatly influenced by them.
After he came back to Joseon they kept exchanged letters and books to continuing studies. He sold out studied more deeply about calligraphy, epigraphy, historical research and geography into the field of study.
When Chusa become a secret royal inspector at age of 41, some day while having his duty mad ill-fated relationship with An-Dong Kim family U-Meong. Later on this opposition relationship with An-Dong Kim Family line gives a excuse to send banishment Chusa far away to Jeju-do Island age of 55.
After 2 years later during the banishment, Chusa's second wife Ye-An family Lee passed away for illness. Even in the cold and harsh he overcame many personal adversities and didn't stop researching. However, for a long time what he got through he kept developed to completed his own calligraphic style and paint 〈Sehan-do〉 at that time. 〈Sehan-do〉 is given to thank Lee Sang-jeok, he was Chusa's disciples who tried hard to send Chinese ancient books to far away Jeju-do Island for Chusa. After 8 years sent to Island for banishment was done. But 2 years later banishment was not over, he had to go few more years that was total 13 years of banishment. Chusa ended is life Oct. 10th, 1865 age of 71 at Bongeunsa Temple.
Chusa was an active writer in the middle of the 19th century. He had formed a style that values spirituality and has renewed its respect based on endless desire and ideas about learning. He expressed a figurative abstract beauty in his work. He created an extraordinary style of own writing called Chusache, and planted the art world in the public. He became a man of a turning point that upheaval joseon's landscape and folk paintings, which were still weak, through his multi-dimensional academic world such as poetry, books, and paintings. Chusa represents the essence of the embodiment of ideological beauty based on aesthetics that values purity and sincerity within the human mind.
The importance of inner spirit and thought was placed on the basis of extensive reading knowledge and practical experience, and it is only after life is realized that philosophy, nature, character and culture are completed, and based on this, one can guess the higher literary and artistic achievements through the end of the brush.