The Haedong Kosung-jon of Korea (Biographies of High Monks) data that King Beopheung of Silla had preferred to promulgate Buddhism since the state religion. Nonetheless, officials in his court opposed him. Within the fourteenth year of his reign, Beopheung's "Grand Secretary", Ichadon, devised a technique to prevail over courtroom opposition. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw