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

432 MILITARY REFORM If a person has sons, grandsons, or close relatives [ch 'inch ok], he may transfer his land [to them] and pa ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 433 planned to recruit members of this unit by special military examinations, he also excluded from partici ...

434 MILITARY REFORM king.^107 If he were interested only in merit and equality, he would not have included the current restricti ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 435 a possible invasion. Examinations were held to recruit I ,000 sons of ranked offi- cials unregistered f ...

436 MILITARY REFORM [Our country] is divided into yangban and commoners [sang'in], and there is difference between the noble and ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 437 the ranks with soldiers of good status. Such a policy would only result in what Yu euphemistically call ...

438 MILITARY REFORM recipients of [state] land grants, then even though you make [the burden of ser- vice on slaves] somewhat li ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 439 their own authority and removing them from service as sog'o soldiers. I 23 In the short term, Yu was mo ...

440 MILITARY REFORM lems had been overcome in the Royal Division of the seventeenth century and could be rectified in other unit ...

ROYAL DIVISION MODEL 441 vice from the central government's treasury mainly for the doctrinaire reason that grain-tax financing ...

CHAPTER II The Debate over the Military Training Agency, 1651-82 Since Yu Hyongwon believed that a large force of permanent, pro ...

DEBATE OVER MILITARY TRAINING AGENCY 443 inordinate expansion in the troops of the agency as well as other capital divi- sions O ...

444 MILITARY REFORM the support taxpayer system. All the agency's musketeers (p'osu) and cavalry (madae) would be recruited from ...

DEBATE OVER MILITARY TRAINING AGENCY 445 surveillance (oga chakt 'ong) systems to reduce the number of deserters. Increas- ing s ...

446 MILITARY REFORM He meant for its troops to be special or auxiliary posts (pyOlkunjik) and pro- vided them with salaries, but ...

DEBATE OVER MILITARY TRAINING AGENCY 447 nization to the one used in the Royal Division. Although it is unlikely that Hyonjong h ...

448 MILIT AR Y REFORM and Hy6njong now expressed his desire to preserve the Military Training Agency by transferring 10,000 men ...

DEBATE OVER MILITARY TRAINING AGENCY 449 the battalion commanders and platoon leaders. Good ones could do the job in one or two ...

450 MILITARY REFORM or sog 0 soldiers to important capital guard units like the Military Training Agency an attitude reflected ...

DEBATE OVER MILITARY TRAINING AGENCY 451 at the capital before they were able to find support taxpayers would still be paid rati ...