The Southerners (Korean: 남인; Hanja: 南人; RR: Nam-in; lit.
"South people") were a political faction of the Joseon Dynasty.
The faction was created after the split of the Easterners in 1591 by Yi Sanhae's opponents.
They supported Jang Huibin, queen consort of Sukjong of Joseon from 1688 to 1694.
See also, Noron, and for the role of private Confucian academies (together with their shrines), in strife between the factions, see seowon.