Though he was a major journalist in his day, Hanseo Namgung Eok did not publish many articles in newspapers or magazines. For this reason, we can only glean about his life and thoughts from the textbooks and history books that he left behind. This book is divided into four parts. They are the pieces he wrote, the songs he either wrote himself or popularized, the anecdotes related to him, and the police interrogation records.
Part I consists of the anecdotes related to Hanseo Namgung Eok. The intent here is to remember Namgung Eok, who lived a life of action, through the anecdotes from his younger days, and especially those from his days in Mogok after his retirement.
Part II consists of the songs that Namgung Eok either wrote or distributed, along with concise explanations about them. He wrote lyrics to more than one hundred songs, though many of them were prohibited or censored by Japan. Fortunately, more than one hundred songs have been preserved and continue to be sung by people. In the midst of the uncertain fate of the nation, Namgung flowered hope through the lyrics he wrote, just like in the case of the mugunghwa itself.
Part III contains writings from Namgung’s active days as a journalist while still a government official. In addition to those from his time as the president of the Daehan Association and the Hwangsung Newspaper, the original manuscripts of his congratulatory speeches about the founding issues and editorials are provided.
Part IV introduces Namgung Eok, the educator. This section contains not only A Brief History of the East and Joseon Story, which were written after Namgung’s retirement, but also selections from the Education Monthly and Domestic Education. While Domestic Education was the product of his recognition of the importance of women, it also showed how authentic, practical, and wise his faith was. The selection from Joseon Story (five books in total) delineates the situation at the end of the Joseon Dynasty, the March 1st Movement, and the oppression by Japan, as recorded in Book No. 5. The testimonies of the eyewitnesses, who were present during the actual events, and those who experienced and endured all kinds of hardships and torture at the hand of the Japanese, present vividly those aspects that are not contained in other history books.
Lastly, Part V provides the interrogation records from Namgung’s time of arrest and interrogation for violating the National Security Act in 1933. His calm confessions at the age of seventy, in the face of the Japanese police, talking about his vision for the independence of Korea and the task for the nation, remain a great challenge to us today.
Relevant photos and related resources are included throughout the book so as to aid the understanding of the readers. I hope that this book will not just serve as a simple record of Hanseo Namgung Eok the individual but more importantly an instrument through which the meaning of Namgung Eok’s life and the significance of the mugunghwa are planted in the hearts of readers.

Hanseo Namgung Eok,Saving His Country Through His Faith/ Hyun Jae-Ho

PartI Anecdotes
YouScoundrel, Are You the One Who Gave Me My Government Position?
Do You Fools Not Even Recognize Your Own Country?
The Harmonica-Playing White-Haired Boy
Only if You Walk the Right Path
Just Arrest Me and Be Done with It!
When Sad, to the Mugunghwa Nursery
Even Dogs Would Laugh
Pulling up Mugunghwa until Fingertips Split and Blistered
A Ten-jeon Skimmer Hat
Thirteen Years of Practice
Let us Become Independence Troops
Bury Me under a Fruit Tree to Become Compost

PartII Vision Carried in Songs
A Poem of Mount Seorak (Song of Independence)
Butterfly Out of Season
This Peninsula of Rivers and Mountains
A Song of Joseon Geography
The Goose Song
The Sunday (Mogok) School Song
Ode to the Mugunghwa
Victory Song (Mugunghwa Garden)
A Song of Joseon
Workers of Joseon
Flower of Joseon
A Song of Warriors
Our Paradise
A Song of Action
The Baehwa Women’s Academy Song

PartIIINamgung Eok, the Journalist
The Synergy of Ideology and Ability
Social Harmony
First Issue Commemoration Addresses
(1) Commemoration address for the publication
of the first issue of The Daehan Association Newsletter
(2)Commemoration address for the publication
of the first issue of The Giho Nationalist Society Monthly Newsletter
(3)Commemoration address for the publication
of the first issue of The Janghak Monthly Newsletter
(4) Commemoration address for the publication
of the first issue of The Hwangseong Newspaper

PartⅣNamgung Eok, the Educator
? Women, the Korean Language, and History
Domestic Education
The Education Monthly
Joseon Grammar
Joseon Story and The Modern History of Joseon

partⅤPolice Interrogation
Namgung Eok and Mogok School
Namgung Eok and Singing Education
Namgung Eok and the Mugunghwa
History Education
Independence of Joseon

Chronology
Reference