Kim Sakkat asked Chinsa Kim of Okku (Chinsa was the baccalaureate title in old Chosŏn) for a night’s lodgings. Chinsa Kim salved his conscience by giving Kim Sakkat two pence by way of alms, but he refused him lodgings. The poet penned a poem and stuck it on the front gate. Chinsa Kim was so impressed by the poem that he followed Kim Sakkat and insisted he return with him to the house. The two became good friends.
Chinsa Kim of Okku
gave me two pennies.
Dying would eclipse all such incivility;
living on binds me to bitterness.