高麗 仁宗代 ‘維新政治’와 『三國史記』

Abstract

There is a clear probability between ‘Yushin politics’ and 『Samguk Sagi』 born shortly after it during the reign of Injong of the Goryeo Dynasty. In fact, the strongholds of Confucianism built in the Goryeo society can be said to be robust. In other words, the power of ‘Confucianism’ as an authoritative tool exercised over the Goryeo society is really fearful. By the way, the ideological identity of Confucianism produces ‘distinction’ and exclusion for others. In particular, autocracy based on it identifies the development narrative of the country and society as the framework of homogeneous and uniform historical time. ‘Yushin politics’ during the reign of Injong of the Goryeo Dynasty is the history demonstrating such nature the most dramatically. In that sense, the social time structure of Confucianism acts as the mechanism of "spreading". Confucianism becomes a mirror of the ruling. The longing for ancient times in China, indeed, was a imminent challenge of the Goryeo political society. Recognizing ‘This was the way things of the ancient times in China were but the political society of Goryeo is a chaos’ through the conventional self-diagnosis, it becomes a major challenge to find and develop the elements of advancement like Three States in our unique past. Therefore, the ideological identity of Confucianism is an important lever to discover the country of ‘Taejo’ and ‘Munjong’ in our past. Eventually, Kim Bu-sik claims that we can be like ancient Three States in China in his book 『Samguk Sagi』. In addition, though in favor of a monarch, Kim Bu-sik could not help limiting the monarch after all. Finally, the conflicting and bipolar mechanism is born in Confucianism politics in the Goryeo Dynasty. While hating Myocheong, a pro-king theorist eradicated as the other, Kim Bu-sik learns him after all. Despite the political confrontation of othernizing each other, Kim Bu-sik and Myocheong were tied together with a chain ring of Confucian, ‘Yushin politics’, Confucian politics related to the power of king and communicated each other. Thus, 『Samguk Sagi』, the text of historical controversy requires an understanding of the political landscape in the middle of the Goryeo Dynasty when the text has been placed beyond the empirical understanding of itself. In that sense, the margin of historical interpretation of 『Samguk Sagi』 can be said to be full.