Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions. Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty - James B. Palais

212 SOCIAL REFORM or official agency that owned the slave could confiscate the property. It was the lack of opportunity for the ...

SLAVERY 213 In the Choson period the origins of slavery in Korea were commonly attrib- uted to Kija.^14 In 1689, ChOng T'ak argu ...

214 SOCIAL REFORM of Koryo, Wang Kon (877-943, known posthumously as King T'aejo, r. 9 I 8-43). In 982, Ch'oe Siingno, a renowne ...

SLAVERY 215 tional Korea became prominent because of King Kwangjong's attempt to expand central power. After his death in 982, t ...

216 SOCIAL REFORM Kongmin 's Attempt at Reform Despite King Ch'ungnyol's defense of hereditary slavery, there was still pres- su ...

SLAVERY 217 were favorably disposed to some type of slave reform, others were afraid that wanton manumission would create a rebe ...

218 SOCIAL REFORM tives (pansan).37 In other words, even if the family died out, its slaves would become part of the property of ...

SLAVERY 219 fire in a stable, and Confucius asked, "Has anyone been hurt?" He did not ask about the horses. This was the way the ...

220 SOCIAL REFORM a greater share of inherited slaves from the family patrimony than was their due, holding pawned slaves after ...

SLAVERY 221 disputes continued until King Sejo ordered a new set of regulations in 1459 to settle outstanding cases. He ruled ou ...

222 SOCIAL REFORM if either one of the parents were commoners. Thus, the only way left to reduce the number of slaves who inheri ...

SLAVERY 223 so their children could escape base status. For children to caIl strangers parents and vice versa (to evade the inhe ...

224 SOCIAL REFORM only then would the female slaves realize that there would be nothing to be gained by marrying commoner males. ...

SLAVERY 225 the offspring of officials and slave wives or concubines would be regarded as commoners (yang).68 By the sixteenth c ...

226 SOCIAL REFORM POST-TMJIN CHANGES IN THE TREATMENT OF SLAVES Military service: The Sog'o Units In 1298 King Ch'ungnyol stated ...

SLAVERY 227 commoner population and reduce the number of slaves had been frustrated by the resurgent power of the slaveowners, b ...

228 SOCIAL REFORM rank. The demand for soldiers led to the watering down of the qualifications: special red warrants (llOngp ae) ...

SLAVERY 229 and special fund raisers were given quotas of blank napsok warrants that they peddled in their districts. The practi ...

230 SOCIAL REFORM almost total reeducation to ordinary household tasks just to discharge their fil- ial responsibilities. The po ...

SLAVERY 231 moner males who had commoner service and the official slaves who had run away from their duties or tax obligations, ...