Shuei was close to Gyokukin KIN, who had fled from Korea to Japan, and visited to console him when Kin was exiled to the Ogasawara Islands and Hokkaido.
朝鮮から日本に亡命していた金玉均とは交友が深く、金が小笠原諸島や北海道に流された際にもその地を訪ねて慰めた。