¹Gim Nak-beom of Jeonju County had a son, Seok, who suffered from an eye disease that reddened his eyes and rendered him blind.²Sangjenim peered into the boy’s eyes and then transferred the disease to himself, suffering from the eye disease for half a day until it disappeared.

³On a different occasion, as Sangjenim sojourned at an inn on Yongmeorigogae Hill, he was devotedly attended upon by Nak-beom, who was suffering from pemphigus. ⁴One day, Sangjenim suddenly became angry and censured Nak-beom, “How can you be so idle in front of your elder?”⁵Filled with fear and confusion, Nak-beom bowed his head without speaking a word and then rose to leave the room.

⁶But Sangjenim then censured him all the more thunderously, “Where are you going when an elder is reprimanding you?”⁷Overpowered by Sangjenim’s commanding presence, Nak-beom sat down again, sweating nervously with his head bowed.

⁸When Nak-beom returned home in the wake of the unexpected reproof and tried to puzzle out his fault, he could not understand what he had done wrong, and so continued to feel dismay.⁹But when Nak-beom’s pemphigus vanished, he realized that Sangjenim’s anger and reproof had actually been medicine.