the upper classes, fully established during the Joseon Dynasty, mixed with aristocratic and simple bureaucratic characters The term itself is a word called "Muban" and "Moonban."
A class of non-dynamic relative to the generally spoken aristocracy, included in and removed from the aristocracy and did not change easily. Although it is easy to understand in terms limited to the Joseon Dynasty, the concept itself was even in the Goryeo Dynasty.
Originally, when inquiring in the royal court, it originated from the presence of the king in the north, the gatekeepers in the east, officials in the west, and working-level palace officials in the south, called the Southern Hemisphere. The Southern Hemisphere disappeared during the Joseon Dynasty, and only the Eastern and Western Dynasties were left to form the Yangban. Yang's standard is postscript.
Even after the abolition of identity through Japanese occupation and man lived like this guy and, commoner, and the lowest class of people are increasingly close to public life. According to the Hogu survey, about 1.9 percent of the population was the majority of the population. In the late Joseon Dynasty, buying, selling, or forging pedigree was popular all over the country, and in modern times, you and I are a noble family, so For example, certain surnames show a ridiculous population distribution of hundreds of thousands to millions. In short, people who did not have a last name started to assume another person's last name or create a fake last name. Some scholars say it is a cultural phenomenon in Korea, but this behavior is a bit bizarre.
In modern times, this aristocracy has been mixed with the capitalism of the people, which has created a climate in which people think they have become aristocrats if they have a lot of money or status. The idea is based on the belief that it makes sense for the rich and the poor to become aristocrats themselves by buying genealogies.
The original concept of yangban, which refers to the control of the gate, was changed to yangban, which refers to the ruling class of the Goryeo and Joseon Dynasties. As the yangban bureaucracy was gradually reorganized, not only the people with no jobs but also the families and families were called yangban. Because of the patriarchal family and the communal kinship, the aristocratic official’s family and kinship were also called yangban
In other words, Moon and Muban, which were initiated in legislation, have been extended to the society by making a blood currency based on Confucian ideas. This can be said to show the status of an era when bloodline has not changed easily. This can be said to be an Eastern sense of identity, which is also accepted today.
Social ties also served as a device to define them as aristocrats. For example, each region was combined into a homogenous ritual in the yangban community, which was identified by whom he was marrying. It was also confirmed in a study on Pungheon-an and Hyangan during the Joseon Dynasty, but it was not easy to include those who sought spouses only in groups that were perceived to be like-minded and acted as aristocrats in other regions. This kind of ritual was so powerful that even the king's appeal would not work.
Therefore, the statistics on how many percent of the population was during the Joseon Dynasty should be taken into account.
In the early Joseon Dynasty, the social standard of looking at yangban was the same as the legal standard, so fewer than 1 percent of yangban were used in the society. Thus, the gap between social and legal standards will be huge as the latter part of the Joseon Dynasty, although it was literally the ruling class. The statistics of Hiroshi Miyajima, a Japanese scholar who claimed that 70 percent of the entire nation was aristocratic during the Iron Bell era, treat the number of aristocrats listed as studying abroad as aristocrats in his family register during the Joseon Dynasty as aristocrats, indicating an increase in the number of aristocrats in the real world. However, according to Song Jun-ho, it was possible for him to call himself studying abroad in his family register in the latter part of the Joseon Dynasty, and although most people were listed as studying abroad, this did not mean he was a nobleman. On the contrary, some people were treated as citizens.
The high number of aristocrats in the county was followed by Gyeongju County (2,599), Mokcheon County (2,388), Punggi County (2,294), Gongju County (2,238), and Bonghwa County (2,213, North Gyeongsang Province). In terms of population, many areas in South Chungcheong Province were in the 20s to 30s, some in North Chungcheong Province and others in their mid-20s, while Gyeongju was in its late 10s to mid-20s, with 11.5 percent of the total, with more than 10 percent and others not exceeding 10 percent.
If you look at the characteristics of areas with many aristocrats, there is a concentration of aristocrats in Chungcheong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and Hansung (Seoul), but not more than 5 percent of the population. This is why the so-called "Jangdong Kim," the so-called Andong Kim of Kim Sang-hun who was washing up in Jangseong-dong, Seoul, and the so-called "Jeongdong" of Lee Sang-eun, the mistress of Lee Sang-eun, who was cleaning up in Jeong-dong, Seoul, collapsed under drastic changes, calling Gyeongju, Andong and Chungcheong Province in North Gyeongsang Province today as the fault of Yangban. Yangdong Village, the foundation of Yeoju Yi, a descendant of Yi Eonjeok, in Gyeongju, and Hahoe Village of Poongsan Ryu, a descendant of Ryu Seong-ryong in Andong, are considered Korea’s most representative semi-chon, which is symbolic of this.
Therefore, it is necessary to be careful when referring to the ratio of aristocrats. With the recognition of only the four great emissaries, it can ignore any concept of aristocracy that was used in the society of the time and completely negate the social situation of the late Joseon Dynasty when the status system was in turmoil. However, if you just push ahead with the social norm, it could lead to a strange story of 'the number of the ruling class was seventy percent.'
To sum up, Yangban’s meaning was written in two ways during the Joseon Dynasty. In a narrow sense, only the four great no-hyeonggwan is recognized as yangban. This definition would have been strictly observed in the early part of Joseon. The above regional statistics follow the definition. On the other hand, in a broad sense, it was a broad reference to the descendants of an official who served in government posts due to a deepening social gap between the mid-Joseon era. In particular, the importance of the genealogy was emphasized in response to the fact that the nobility increased greatly during the war due to the fact that he became a hereditary class, not a social class. However, the "delivery hall," which was originally given the same class as the "Gaseondae" and "Dongjeongdae," was not a nobleman unless it was a special case as it was held as an honorary position. Moreover, the gap between rich and poor widened due to the commercialization of currency, which became more active than before, and more people were satisfied with their status as landowners than government posts. They argued that they were also aristocrats because they were descendants of former government officials. In the case of no one who built up wealth but held a government post in his ancestors, he even manipulated the family tree by paying money. The meaning of yangban, a term referring to the social, economic and upper class, seems to have almost settled in the late Joseon Dynasty. In fact, the definition of yangban, which modern people think, is much closer to this latter side.
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