Hangeul has changed and developed in the forms of block-printing,
brush-writing and letters for the practical purpose for a long time since Hangeul
was created in 1443, but Hangeul calligraphy has started to be considered as a
fine art since 1991, when Joseon Society of Calligraphy and Paintings, which was
Korean first educational institute of art, was established, and calligraphy education
began in school. Then, Sahudang(師侯堂) Yun Baegyeong(尹伯榮, 1888∼1986)
acted as an mediator in the process of changing brush-writing for practical use in
Joseon dynasty to Hangeul calligraphy as a genre of art in modern times by
making the Book of encouragement of learning by Emperor Injong in Song
dynasty (1921) a work of art for the first time. Moreover, since she was born in
the late Joseon dynasty, when the court style of Hangeul calligraphy was very
mature, and has lived for 99 years until the period of Republic of Korea, she
played a pivotal role in introducing the royal life and developing the court style
of Hangeul calligraphy. The first achievement of hers was to determine the writers
of tens of sealed letters with no name by annotating them.
The second was that she explained the artifacts for wedding such as Balgi,
Masangjeom and Pummok and attested to customs and artifacts of the court in the
late Joseon dynasty. Therefore, she could be assessed as a living witness of an
authentic precedent of the court. The third was that she wrote and supplemented
eighty pages of the nineteenth volume of 『Jeongsagiram(뎡사긔람)』 at the age of
seventy seven(1964). 『Jeongsagiram』 was the book of Chinese history interpreted
and written in Korean by her father Seokchon Yun Yonggu, but the nineteenth of
eighty volumes has been lost during the Korean war.
Analyzing the formative characteristics of her court style of Hangeul
calligraphy, we could find that she had a great command of disposing and
structuring like the master calligrapher Scribe Lee’s sealed letters of the court and
her handwriting was also exceptional.