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The yangban (Korean: 양반; Hanja: 兩班) were part of the traditional ruling class or gentry of dynastic Korea during the Joseon period. The yangban were mainly composed of highly educated civil officials and military officers—landed or unlanded aristocrats who individually exemplified the Korean Confucian form of a "scholarly official".
The clan was a prominent yangban family during Korea's late Joseon dynasty.. Five Jongmyo scholars, and 2 Prime Ministers, Jo Hyeon-myeong and Jo In-yeong, were produced.A Crown Princess who was posthumously honored as Queen, Queen Hyosun (the wife of Crown Prince Hyojang) and another Crown Princess who was posthumously honored as Queen Dowager, Queen Sinjeong (the wife of Crown Prince Hyomyeong).
The Wonju Won clan (Korean: 원주 원씨; Hanja: 原州 元氏) is a Korean clan.Their Bon-gwan is in Wonju, Gangwon Province.The clan was a prominent yangban family during Korea's Joseon dynasty.
Yangban families were rare in the northern and eastern parts of the country and on Jeju Island and were mostly demoted yangban that were exiled there. High government positions were filled by yangban from Gyeongsang and Chungcheong provinces mainly. The scholar-aristocracy made up about 10% of Korea's population. [10]
During the Joseon era, the Pyongsan Shin family developed into one of many yangban families. As other yangban of the time, members of the Pyongsan Shin clan successfully passed the gwageo, or the national civil service examinations. There was no hereditary aristocracy in Korea during the Joseon era, as the bureaucracy was filled by tested and ...
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The legitimacy of the royal family itself was also becoming an increasingly disputed issue within the court, as the ruling house was claimed to not only have failed to govern the kingdom effectively, but was also supposedly tarnished by generations of forced intermarriage with the Yuan dynasty and rivalries among its various branches, while ...
On Jan. 10, they are scheduled to open Yangban Society, a casual deli and super mini-mart that they say will challenge notions of what it means to be Korean American.