 Seong Sammun and his father were executed along with other plotters.Before his execution, Seong Sammun condemned the king as a pretender.The "sayuksin" and the "saengyuksin" (생육신, the six retainers who lived), who refused to accept King Sejo as the legitimate king, were praised by later generations for holding fast to the Confucian value of staying loyal to the true king.