1036 NOTES TO CHAPTER 3
(Seoul: Taedong munhwa yon'guwon, I958):240, cited in Ch'a Munsop, "Sog'ogun
yon'gu," p. I84.- The detailed description of sog'o organization up to and including battalions is for
the Haeju area in I595, see Sonju sillok 65:r8a, Sonjo 28.7.kyongjin, cited in Han'guk
kunjesa 2:29, 33 n. 59. The figures for Kyonggi Province are from ibid. 2:32, which is
based on Yu Songnyong, "Kunmun tungnok" (Record of the military establishment) in
Chinghirok I 5: r a-3b; "I Kyonggi Sunch'alsa mun" [Message sent to the mobile inspec-
tor of Kyonggi Province, a post held concurrently by the provincial governor] in ibid.
I5:3b-4b; "Pyon'o sam ok" [Regulations for military organization] in ibid. I5:I8a-20b.
See Songgyun'gwan ed. (I958):688-90, 696-97. See also the section on sog'o, Soae
munjip I4:5b-6b, p. 240.
The number of regiments per province evidently varied. According to the Soktaejon
[Dynastic code, continued] of 1746, Kangwon Province had only three, while four
provinces had six, and Pyong'an had nine. Han 'guk kunjesa 2:33, n.60. For an extensive
discussion of the composition of the Kyonggi and other provincial regiments, see Ch'a
Munsop, "Sog'ogun yon'gu," pp. I9I-95.
9 r. The information for this battalion was part of a report dated the fifth month of 1596
for the regiment (yi5ng) headquartered at the Anju chin' gwan. See Han 'guk kunjesa,
2:33-35, esp. the table on p. 34. The information derives from the Chin 'gwan kwanbyong
p'yon'o chankwon [A fragment of the organization of government troops in a chin'-
gwan]. See also Ch'a Munsop's discussion of the organization in P'yong'an and Anju in
"Sog'ogun yon'gu," pp. I9I-92. - Han 'guk kunjesa 2:33.
- Pihyon chamnok [Miscellaneous notes on national defense]. in Yu Songnyong,
Kugyok Sljaejip 2 (Seoul: Minjok munhwa ch'ujinhoe, I977):46-47 of the original Han-
mun (classical Chinese) portion of the text. I am indebted to Yi Kyomju, the author of the
section of Han 'guk kunjesa 2:35-36, for discovering these ideas in Yu Songnyong's works. - Directive to the Sunch'alsa and Pyongsa ofP'yong'an Province, "Kunmun tiingnok,"
in the Chingbirok, I6: I3b-I4b, Songgyun'gwan ed. (I959):7I4; "Pibyon chamnok," in
KugyiJk soaejip 2:46-47; Han 'guk kunjesa 2:36. - Han'guk Kunjesa 2:37.
- Sonjo sillok I r r :2b-3a, Sonjo 32-4.chongsa, cited in Ch'a Munsop, "Sog'ogun
yon'gu, p. I95. - For citations, see the discussion in ibid., pp. 96-97.
- Yi Hyongsok, Imjin chOllansa 3: 1278-79. Yi put the blame on King Sonjo for lax-
ity in attending to rebuilding of the army.
99· Ibid. 3: I3 22 - 2 3·
lOO. Ibid. 2:972.
CHAPTER 3. Post-Imjin Developments in Military Defense and the Economy
I. The names of some of the factions have nothing to do with regional loyalties.- Yi Sangbaek, Han'guksa: Kunse hugip'yon [History of Korea: Late recent times]