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Joseon class system
Class
Hangul
Hanja
Status
Yangban
양반
兩班
noble class
Jungin
중인
中人
intermediate class
Sangmin
상민
常民
common people
Cheonmin
천민
賤民
lowborn people (nobi, baekjeong, mudang, gisaeng, etc.)
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Yangban
A Korean official during his stay in China, taken in 1863.
Korean name
Hangul
양반
Hanja
兩班
Revised Romanization
Yangban
McCune–Reischauer
Yangpan
The yangban (Korean: 양반; Hanja: 兩班) were part of the traditional ruling class or gentry of dynastic Korea during the Joseon Dynasty. The yangban were mainly composed of highly educated civil servants and military officers—landed or unlanded aristocrats who individually exemplified the Korean Confucian form of a "scholarly official". They were largely government administrators and bureaucrats who oversaw medieval and early modern Korea's traditional agrarian bureaucracy until the end of the dynasty in 1897. In a broader sense, an office holder's family and descendants, as well as country families who claimed such descent, were socially accepted as yangban.
In contemporary Korean language, the term 'yangban' means to humourously (and often sarcastically) refer to a person in a derogatory way. [1]. Quite interestingly, the same word is used to describe something better as well ("A는 B에 비하면 양반이다" which means "A is yangban (much decent) compared to B".
The yangban (Korean: 양반; Hanja: 兩班) were part of the traditional ruling class or gentry of dynastic Korea during the Joseon Dynasty. The yangban were mainly...
fundamental principles and five moral disciplines. There were four classes: the yangban nobility, the "middle class" jungin, sangmin, or the commoners, and the...
Yangbans (Korean: 양반들) is a South Korean indie rock band. They used the band name Jun Bum Sun & the Yangbans (Korean: 전범선과 양반들) since they debuted in 2014...
on the forehead. The mask is often painted red to represent middle-age. Yangban (the aristocrat): The character with the most power, and therefore the...
civilians at their mercy. The government also awarded many militiamen yangban class status in exchange for their voluntary militia activities against...
and military officers who were collectively called yangban. By the end of the 18th century, the yangban had acquired most of the traits of a hereditary nobility...
China (1949–), revolutionary operas or model operas (Simplified Chinese: yangban xi, 样板戏) were a series of shows planned and engineered during the Cultural...
skilled workers whose technical and administrative skills enabled the yangban and the royal family to rule the lower classes. Jungin were the lifeblood...
sangmin rebelled many times because of oppression and corruption by the yangban. Yangban Chungin Cheonmin Baekjeong Nobi Donghak Peasant Revolution info Korea...
reserved for the yangban class, but members of the middle and common classes of Joseon society frequently paid to acquire a surname from a yangban and be included...
The nobi were socially indistinct from freemen other than the ruling yangban class, and some possessed property rights, legal entities and civil rights...
unrivaled elsewhere. Joseon implemented a class system that consisted of yangban the noble class, jungin the middle class, yangin the common class, and...
when the yangban is generous and gives it away, or when the village slope makes a feast. Gangjeong was also exclusive to those above the yangban class because...
uneducated peasants and slaves. By the 17th century, the elite class of Yangban had exchanged Hangul letters with slaves, which suggests a high literacy...
reflected the frustrations felt by the lower classes towards the elite yangban. It is a theory that the origin of the masquerade is the agricultural consciousness...
examinations. In most cases, seowon served only pupils of the aristocratic yangban class. On 6 July 2019, UNESCO recognized a collection of nine seowon as...
kisaeng). Nobi (slaves) were servants taken from the cheonmin class to serve yangban (aristocracy) and royalty, but like slaves, they were considered the property...
so cloak their predations on the farmers with an aura of officialdom. Yangban families, formerly well-respected for their status as a noble class and...
the neoul was used by the court women, the sseugaechima was used by the yangban women; and the jang-ot was used by the jungin women or commoners. The sseugaechima...
might one day also get a husband, and the only man who solved it was a yangban by the name of Seo Gyeong-deok.[unreliable source?] Kisaengs were female...
from freemen (i.e., the middle and common classes) other than the ruling yangban class, and some possessed property rights, legal entities and civil rights...
dating back to 10th century China, which later became popular among the yangban of Joseon Dynasty Korea as an alternative to the gat. Chilote cap A woven...
romanticized in popular imagination as men of honor in contrast to the ruling yangban class, even though seonbi came from the same class. The seonbi was a common...