Creative Pioneering

Creative Pioneering

Yi sun-shin of the 16th century was a leader with outstanding creativeness. Yi sun-shin had astonishing and refreshing ideas that were shown in the turtle ship with excellent capability, many weapons that he manufactured, exquisite strategies for battles that would be historic in the world history of naval battles, and even for a small idea to manage the military units.

Such a creativeness of Yi sun-shin was a great resource in managing the military force durig the war. During the times of war for seven years, Yi sun-shin was forced to solve all matters involving the military supplies to take care of the needs of Joseon naval force, manufacturing of weapons and training, and other resources. For this purpose, Yi sun-shin had to manage for creative administrative affairs including the fisheries, salt production and sales, management of garrison farm, sea way pass (ID for ships to operate), and others.

In particular, through the garrison farm management with his past experience in norther territory as the garrison farm officer, he secured the grain for military use and gathered the wandering people to the garrison farm area to solve the military supplement in effective ways.