Yi Kae was a Korean scholar-official of the Joseon period who came from the yangban Hansan Yi clan and one of the six martyred ministers. He was the great-grandson of Goryeo period philosopher Yi Saek and third cousin of Yi San-hae.
Death Poem
Yi Kae wrote the following death poem in prison before his execution: 방안에 혔는 촛불 눌과 이별하엿관대 겉으로 눈물지고 속타는 줄 모르는다. 우리도 천리에 임 이별하고 속타는 듯하여라. Oh, candlelight shining the room, with whom did you part? You shed tears without and burn within, yet no one notices. We part with our Lord thousand miles away and burn like thee. ==Popular culture==