일본에서 고등 문관 시험에 합격한 형 김동진으로부터 동경으로 유학 오라는 성화가 빗발쳤지만 뜻을 두지 않았다.
His elder brother Kim Dongjin, who had passed the exam for high-ranking civil servants in Japan, kept trying to persuade him to come to Tokyo to study there, but he refused each time.