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A Study on the Historical Concept of Yusin (維新) Around the End of the Joseon Dynasty

  • Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • 2018, 75(1), pp.219-268
  • DOI : 10.17326/jhsnu.75.1.201802.219
  • Publisher : Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : January 16, 2018
  • Accepted : January 31, 2018
  • Published : February 28, 2018

Noh, KwanBum 1

1서울대학교 규장각한국학연구원

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to examine the political conceptualization of Yusin (維新) during the reign of Kojong and Sunjong, the last two kings of the Joseon dynasty. The main focus is on the semantic order of compound terms that include ‘Yusin’ as they appear in the daily records of the government office Seungjeongweon (承政院). The changing concepts of Yusin in those records can be categorized and distinguished in the following ways: the typical concept of Yusin as it originated from the Confucian classics, its political implications in the conventional practice of the historical monarchy in Joseon Korea, and its ultimate conceptual modernization that accompanied the political transformation of the Korean ancient-regime itself. Untimately, it is concluded that a change of meaning from ‘a new beginning of a new Confucian politics’ to that of ‘a new modern civilization’ characterizes the historical concept of Yusin in the last period of Joseon dynasty.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.