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The Travel Records Yu-Gi(遊記) and Trip Culture in Goryeo Dynasty : Rord Trips, Travel Modes and Inhabitants of the Villages They Had Met

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2022, (146), pp.137~182
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : February 16, 2022
  • Accepted : March 4, 2022
  • Published : June 30, 2022

Eun Gyeong Kang 1

1충북대학교

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ABSTRACT

There were many intellectuals had gone the domestic and foreign trips to write travel records Yu-Gi(遊記) especially in the late Goryeo. They were published in a collection of works that days. We could see traffic routes, especially postal roads, post towns, and turist spots they had met and we would observe how much tourists and famous places affected by Yu-Gi in conclusion limited. The travel records Yu-Gi were vivid reports written by the best elites who had traveled the whole country everywhere. They were usually not in prose but also poem style, which were made at posthouses or pavilions. There were inhabitants in actual lives and their villages in them. So if they would be resolved, we could get concretely the more vivid information of them. Tourists used the post roads and houses which Goryeo government organized. Above all their means of transportation were their horses, so they should think a matter of the highest priority when they moved the next place. If they had travelled they would meet post towns where they had a rest and their horse took an easy. Sometimes the town were ruined though inhabitants of the villages had to service them kindly. That was their responsibilities. Whenever they had trips, they would meet turist spots. Because they had Buddhist faith, they thought that place specially. Also because they had the best view, they were famous for scenery. But though inhabitants of the villages were busy at maintenance of livelihood, they had to help turists for a guid or a good service. Famous places were dangerous for people of turist spots. At last the travel records Yu-Gi had made in the famous places as Mt. Geungang, but famous places would made by Yu-Gi as Yeonghoru(영호루) in Andong or Gyeongpodae in Gangneung(江陵).

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