Mun Ik-chŏm

Mun Ik-chŏm (1329–1398) was a Goryeo civil official and Neo-Confucian scholar from Gangseong-hyeon near Jinju in Gyeongsang Province. After passing the civil service examination in 1360, he accompanied a diplomatic mission to Yuan China in 1363.

Although the Yuan banned the export of cotton seeds, he brought home cotton seed and, helped by a Chinese monk, began growing cotton, introducing cotton cultivation to Korea. He died in 1398; in 1440 King Sejong posthumously enfeoffed him as Marquis Fumin.