@article{ART001379778},
author={Jaemyoung Kim},
title={Relationship between Royal Authority and Nasi(內侍) of King Ŭijong's(毅宗) Period in Koryŏ Dynasty},
journal={The Review of Korean History},
issn={1225-133X},
year={2009},
number={95},
pages={41-71}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jaemyoung Kim
TI - Relationship between Royal Authority and Nasi(內侍) of King Ŭijong's(毅宗) Period in Koryŏ Dynasty
JO - The Review of Korean History
PY - 2009
VL - null
IS - 95
PB - The Historical Society Of Korea
SP - 41
EP - 71
SN - 1225-133X
AB - In the late period of king Injong(仁宗), the noble officials that held real power required the sharp reduction of Nasi's numbers. That was because they wanted to control king's power and to strengthen their political basis. So Jibjukwan(執奏官) was abolished and Nasibyeolgams(內侍別監) that had dispatched to many places were reduced. As a result, total number of Nasi was decreased remarkably.
But the situation was much different in Ŭijong's period. From the beginning of grasping political power, he increased the numbers of Nasi and picked men of common families and low birth who had been very loyal to king for Nasi to strengthen the royal authority. On the contrary, even if the maternal relatives and the nobles were appointed to Nasi, they didn't almost get trust from king. So the censors who were managed by noble officials strongly resisted to king's attitude, but they couldn't frustrate king's purpose in the end.
In the middle of this situation, noble officials showed change in their political attitude. From the 13th year of Ŭijong after when they finished the argument that it was right or wrong to appoint Jŏngham(鄭諴) to Habmunjihu(閤門祗侯), many noble officials began to be friendly with king. And king Ŭijong also appointed a lot of noble officials' sons to Nasi in return for that. But these noble Nasis who were appointed at this period were much different from ones before in their political actions. They were very sincere to king's orders and tried to improve king's authority. They even held the king sacred, and showed degraded act of sticking to eunuches.
Such a change of noble Nasis' act caused confliction with Nasis from common families who had showed all the way loyalty to the king from the beginning. To win king's favor, they formed their own groups and competed to present gifts to the king, and were in collusion with eunuches competitively. Owing to this, the status of eunuches went up higher, and in addition, eunuches were concerned with personnel affairs of Jokwannasi(朝官內侍). As a result, they influenced much on lots of government affairs making use of Jokwannasi.
KW - Nasi;men of common families;men of nobles;political attitude;degraded act
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Jaemyoung Kim. (2009). Relationship between Royal Authority and Nasi(內侍) of King Ŭijong's(毅宗) Period in Koryŏ Dynasty. The Review of Korean History, 95, 41-71.
Jaemyoung Kim. 2009, "Relationship between Royal Authority and Nasi(內侍) of King Ŭijong's(毅宗) Period in Koryŏ Dynasty", The Review of Korean History, no.95, pp.41-71.
Jaemyoung Kim "Relationship between Royal Authority and Nasi(內侍) of King Ŭijong's(毅宗) Period in Koryŏ Dynasty" The Review of Korean History 95 pp.41-71 (2009) : 41.
Jaemyoung Kim. Relationship between Royal Authority and Nasi(內侍) of King Ŭijong's(毅宗) Period in Koryŏ Dynasty. 2009; 95 : 41-71.
Jaemyoung Kim. "Relationship between Royal Authority and Nasi(內侍) of King Ŭijong's(毅宗) Period in Koryŏ Dynasty" The Review of Korean History no.95(2009) : 41-71.
Jaemyoung Kim. Relationship between Royal Authority and Nasi(內侍) of King Ŭijong's(毅宗) Period in Koryŏ Dynasty. The Review of Korean History, 95, 41-71.
Jaemyoung Kim. Relationship between Royal Authority and Nasi(內侍) of King Ŭijong's(毅宗) Period in Koryŏ Dynasty. The Review of Korean History. 2009; 95 41-71.
Jaemyoung Kim. Relationship between Royal Authority and Nasi(內侍) of King Ŭijong's(毅宗) Period in Koryŏ Dynasty. 2009; 95 : 41-71.
Jaemyoung Kim. "Relationship between Royal Authority and Nasi(內侍) of King Ŭijong's(毅宗) Period in Koryŏ Dynasty" The Review of Korean History no.95(2009) : 41-71.
