He supported Gyokukin KIN and others of the Yi dynasty Korea; invented a mixed writing system of Chinese and Hangul; and expended his funds on the establishment of "Kanjo Junpo" (written in Chinese,) which was to develop into the first newspaper partly written in Hangul in Korea "Kanjo Shuho."
李氏朝鮮の金玉均などを支援しているし、漢文とハングルの混合文を発案するとともに、朝鮮で初めてのハングル交じりの新聞『漢城周報』へと発展する『漢城旬報』（漢字表記）の創刊にも私財を投じて関わっている。