Introduced by Kim Mokkŭn in the first number of Sadam (1986), there are doubts about the ascription. Kubi munhak taegye notes that Kim Sakkat was the brightest boy in the class and very dear to his master. The other boys resented this affection. One day Kim Sakkat climbed up on the roof looking for birds and dislodged a tile, which fell and smashed. The boys immediately told the master, hoping the misdeed would be punished by a whipping. The master gave Kim Sakkat a choice: repeat the chi (go) character twelve times in a quatrain or take twelve lashes of the whip. Kim Sakkat chose to compose the poem.
Up I got, I got right up, I got right up on the roof.
I got up there to get a bird, but in the getting up,
a tile got loose, got knocked, got smashed.
The master got angry; got his whip; and I got beaten.