Definitions
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- noun historical A ruling class of male
Confucian intellectuals inKorea at and before the time of the Korean Empire.
Etymologies
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The hereditary literati class was known as the yangban, or two orders, because its members combined the civil and military functions of state control.
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Over time, the landed estates of yangban families grew larger, especially after the state ceased allocating lands to them.
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It effectively standardized the new yangban governing structure.
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The first literati purge, during the reign of King Ynsan'gun (r. 14941506, b. 1476), in which the older yangban elite sought to get rid of many of the Neo-Confucians.
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Likewise, yangban monopolized the civil service exams and hence access to office.
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The reformers also wanted the Taewn'gun returned home, all yangban privilege abrogated, and power recentralized.
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The great attraction of Protestantism from the 1880s forward seems to have been centered in the non-yangban sectors.
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During the Yi period, far more families acquired yangban status than under the Kory aristocracy.
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Korea's first school for young women, Ehwa Girls School, was founded earlier (1886) through the work of U.S. missionaries; later, many other girls 'schools were created by Koreans, and these schools were important agencies for liberating young women from the strictures of yangban society.
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These were yangban scholars of a moralistic bent, unlike the primarily scholar-official group of yangban who had been influential until then.
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