II 06 NOTES TO CHAPTER 13
source, when a Forbidden Soldier Agency (Kumgunch'ong), or Agency of the Three
Forbidden Soldier Guards (Ki:imgun sameh'ong) was created in 1666, there were 200
mcn each in the Kyomsahok and Urimwi, and 300 in the Naegumwi, somewhat less
than Yu's estimatc, KSDSJ I :226, See also Yi Kung'ik, YrJllyusil kislIl, pyolehip, Yong-
hoyong (article on the Dragon Tiger Regiment), cited in Ch'a Munsop, "Sonch'o i:ii
Naegi:imwi" [The Inner Forhidden Guards of early Choson], in idem, ChosiJn sidae kunje
yun 'gu (T973), p, S4,
13, The salary would be IS mal of rice, 6 mal of millet, and 9 rnal of yellow beans per
month, rather generous by comparison with his ration schedule for other soldiers, PGSR
2 I :ya, line lO,
The quota had risen to ISO in 1440, when Sejong decided to reduce to it 60 to main-
tain the high quality of its troops, He raised it to lOO in 144S, King Sejo latcr put lOO
men on reserve and created 200 ncw duty troops, thus tripling the number to 300, He
also divided the men into three shifts and required that one-third or 6S men serve on duty
at anyone time, The conservative King Yejong (r, 146S-69) rcduced the quotas of all
special guard units by 13,040, from 3S,240 men to 22,200, The Naegumwi quota was
cut from 200 to loO, The quota of 200 in the KyiJnf.(f.(uk taejiJn (1469-74) probably rep-
resented an increase resulting from recruitment through skill examinations, The break-
down for all royal guards was as follows:
Name
Py6biwi
Kapsa
P'aj6gwi
Taejol
Naegumwi
CJngyangwi
TOTAL
REfleCTION IN ROYAl
Old quota
2,400 [3,400?]
20,000
3,000
3,4 00 [3,44^01 ]
200
200
35,240 [3 0 ,24 0 ?]G\ ARfl QUOTAS, 1408 -69
New quota
2,5 00
10,000
2,5 00
3,000
100
100
22,200 [[ 8,200'1]
SOURCE: Ch'a Mum()p, "S6nch'0 ili Nacgi:illlwi," p, 86.Reduction
900
10,000
500
440
[00
100
13,040 [12,04071- PGSR 2 [:7b-Sa. The regulations for the examinations are in ibid. 21 :Sb-7b.
IS, As opposed to ordinary infantry, who were divided into eight shifts and served for
two months at a time, these night patrol soldiers would be divided into ten shifts of a
month's duty. They would he provided with a monthly ration of 9 mal of rice. Ibid. 2 I :2a-
b.4a-sb. - Yu mentioned that these police boxes were currently called Kyongsuso.
I7. Ihid. 21 :sa-b.
IS. Ibid. 2I:2b. - Ibid. 21:2b-3h.
- Ibid. 23:32h-34b.
2[. Ibid. 21:rsh-qa. Chon Noksaeng was horn in 131S and died whileon the way to
exile in 1375, KSDSJ 2:1323. - PGSR 23:34b-35a.
- Ibid. 23:3sa-b.
- The version ofYl! Songnyong's proposal quoted in ibid. 2T:71a is not dated but