The monograph section, ji (지; 志), contains "accounts of the politics, economics, personnel (civil and military), geography, astronomy, and other topics related to Goryeo society.

Meanwhile, historians were split over whether to preserve the imperial language used in the Kingdom of Goryeo or to revise it, aligning with Confucian principles, to that of a tributary state.

[13] Since Sejong did not see the completed Goryeosa, it is unknown whether he would have been content with the work; nevertheless, the compilation project ended in 1451, the year of Munjong's coronation.

A remarkably well-preserved complete edition, currently housed in the Seokdang Museum of Dong-a University, is a woodblock-printed replica dating to 1613.

Another surviving partial edition, housed in the Baeknyeon Buddhist Temple in Nam-gu, Busan, was designated as a cultural heritage material (문화유산자료) in 2014.

[16] The modern Korean translation of Goryeosa began in 2001 under the auspices of the National Research Foundation of Korea by the Seokdang Academy of Dong-a University.

[17] In 2009, the National Institute of Korean History began providing the gujeom (verbatim) edition (구점본; 句點本), making it accessible online with original images from Kyujanggak.

After that, heinous traitors cloaked as subjects rose one after another to feign kingship and were removed like pieces in a game of go (paduk) or chess (changgi).

In this hard time, it fell to King Wŏnjong 元宗 (r. 1259–1274) to quell a large rebellion, preserving, albeit barely, the great calling of our ancestors.

King Ch'ungnyŏl 忠烈 (r. 1274–1308) then frittered his time away playing games and banqueting with his sycophants, causing a breach in his relations with his son (Ch'ungsŏn 忠宣, r. 1298, r. 1308–1313).

As a result, Goryeosa portrays certain Goryeo kings who did not fit into Joseon literati's neo-Confucian values in a negative light.

Despite the biases, Goryeosa is generally considered truthful to the original historical sources, and its writing maintains a matter-of-fact tone without embellishments.