Are you ready for a rather philosophical piece today? On my YouTube channel I received a comment about loyalty versus compromise. It was the kind of comment that when I first read it, I rejected it because I thought it missed the point. But as I thought about it more, I moved through the steps from rejection to consideration, acceptance and conversion. The comment was in response to a video I made about a poem by Jeong Mong-ju, where I recited his poem at his tomb site. The poem, often called "The Song of Loyalty," is my favorite sijo poem and I recite it in every appropriate situation that I can — and probably in some inappropriate ones as well. It goes: "Though I die, and die again; though I die one hundred deaths, After my bones have turned to dust, whether my soul lives on or not, For my king, this small, ever-loyal heart of mine will never fade away." I assume you all know the story of how Jeong was asked by Yi Seong-gye to support the Joseon Dynasty that Yi was about to found, but he refused and declared his loyalty to the last Goryeo king — effectively choosing death. He refus