朝鮮後期 肅宗代 國法체계와 『典錄通考』의 편찬

Abstract

In the latter half period of the Joseon dynasty, large-scale projects of modifying and supplementing the national law system continued for over a century. During the reign of King Sukjong, the task of determining a hierarchy structure among the many law codes that had been accumulated for a long time, and finding a way to apply all those codes to real-life situations appropriately, were considered as most important and primary ones to be dealt with, above all else. So, in two separate occasions, the national laws were newly compiled, and in both occasions such efforts resulted in a newly modified national law system. The first project primarily dealt with the task of integrating relatively new law codes(that were already put in effect at the time) into the existing national law system, and the efforts resulted in the compilation and publication of Sugyo Jibrok(受敎輯錄). After that, a second project was launched intending to restructure and reestablish the national law system of the Joseon dynasty. This time the efforts resulted in the compilation and publication of Jeonrok Tonggo. Inside this Jeonrok Tonggo, not only Gyeongguk Daejeon(經國大典), the mother of all laws of the Josoen dynasty, but also other law systems such as Daejeon Sokrok(大典續錄), Daejeon Hu-Sokrok(大典後續錄), Sugyo Jibrok were all newly realigned and gathered together. As a result, the new national law system of Joseon, which reflected the reality of the Joseon society at the time, was completed. Jeonrok Tonggo was the final achievement of the law-modification efforts that had continued for decades during King Sukjong's reign. Inspired by this completion of Jeonrok Tonggo, the following Kings Yeongjo and Jeongjo, who supported the Tangpyeong objective, displayed similar efforts themselves through compiling Sok Daejeon(續大典) and Daejeon Tongpyeon(大典通編). Their efforts clearly showed that they were fairly interested in former Kings(時王)' efforts of compiling the national law, and also that they were intending to utilize such modified Law compilations in their efforts of reinforcing their ruling of the country in general. The efforts to create new law compilations, exhibited by Kings Sukjong, Yeongjo and Jeongjo, continued for over a century, and in the process the principle that 'Joseon's administration and culture should always be based upon the law' was indeed strongly reestablished.