[1] Jeong Hu-gyeom was born in 1749 as the second son of Jeong Seok-dal (a fisherman and 4th cousin of Jeong Chi-dal, Princess Hwawan's husband) and Lady Yi of the Jeonju Yi clan.
[2] When he was a child, he was Crown Prince Yi San's study partner at the Confucian Academy.
In his teens he studied in Qing China and as an adult he was very successful.
He became a key member of the No-ron Faction and also part of the plot to destroy Yi San (Jeongjo).
[3] When the participants were punished, he was exiled to Kyongwon County in Hamgyong Province and put to death by poison.