Sol Ch'ong (ca. 680-750) was an eminent Korean Confucian scholar of the Silla dynasty. He made significant contributions to the field of education through the development of a system for writing Korean. He was known as one of the Ten Confucian Sages of Silla.

Sol Ch'ong, whose literary appellation was Pingwoldang (Ice Moon Hall), came from the Sol clan of Kyongju, the capital of ancient Silla. By the time Kim Pusik included Sol Ch'ong's biography in his History of the Three Kingdoms in the 13th century, much information concerning Sol Ch'ong's career had been lost.

Silla had a strong caste system called Bone Ranks, and Sol came from one of the eminent families. His grandfather had held high office in the government before Silla unified the Korean peninsula, and his father, Wonhyo, was an eminent monk in this predominantly Buddhist kingdom. Wonhyo married a royal princess who gave...