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

CHAPTER 16 Reforming the Central Bureaucracy ~e purpose ofYu's treatment of bureaucratic organization was summarized in a brief ...

CENTRAL BUREAUCRACY 613 third and second millennia, B.c.) when more officials had to he created, they still were able to make do ...

614 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION courts, five directorates, and a number of other special agencies, including offices servi ...

CENTRAL BUREAUCRACY 6I5 most corrupt and tyrannical officials, it was opposed by officials, who feared the loss of their livelih ...

616 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION BUREAUCRATIC REORGANIZATION IN KOREA Reduction of Agencies and Staff In turning his attent ...

CENTRAL BUREAUCRACY 617 Yu's plan was adopted to combine and reduce the numher of military garrisons and small-scale watchtowers ...

618 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION that every agency of the government should have regular grades and fixed salaries for its ...

CENTRAL BUREAUCRACY 619 (Saganwon) - the third censorate agency - because it was superfluous. Yu was even reluctant to retain th ...

620 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION chronologies. Ou-yang Hsiu advised historians to describe specific crimes of active offici ...

CENTRAL BUREAUCRACY 62I insistence on adherence to Chinese precedent. The bureau had been established separately in the Chason p ...

622 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION of supervising the land of the country, settling the four classes of people (schol- ars, p ...

CENTRAL BUREAUCRACY 623 Astronomy, Medicine, Foreign Languages Yu had to provide for agencies to handle technological aspects of ...

624 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION Consolidate Control of Market Regulation Yu also called for reducing the quota of official ...

CENTRAL BUREAUCRACY 625 funds kept in the Left and Right Warehouses were to be used for all legitimate costs of government inclu ...

626 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION REGULATING OFFICIALS AND CLERKS Reducing the Number of Officials and Clerks Yu's purpose i ...

CENTRAL BUREAUCRACY 627 Since the nomenclature and tasks of service personnel in Chou times could not easily be adopted without ...

628 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION to reduce their numbers and improve their quality only by recruiting the most qualified me ...

CENTRAL BUREAUCRACY 629 like the armored soldiers (Kapsa), but they could not advance to rank 6A as a regular official. King Sej ...

630 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION technical officials. Yu's reforms would have professionalized the service of clerks by req ...

CENTRAL BUREAUCRACY 631 the jobs there. Yu remarked that the hiring of young boys was never practiced in classical times and oug ...