고려시대 동경의 위상과 행정체계

Abstract

Gyeongju was changed to Donggyeong-yusu and Gyerim-bu. This was influenced by movements of Gyeongju people, the change of political power and national system. Though it had the disadvantageous condition that it was away from Gaegyeong, it had a long history, high-level culture, and its people playing active roles in political affairs and culture, so it could hold the position as Donggyeong(East Capital) for a long time. Though a family from Dongyeong was being prosperous or unprosperous in Gaegyeong, another family continued to succeed there. They seldom found such a city as Gyeongju that constantly made the best brains enter into Gaegyeong from the early years to the closing period of Koryeo. Administration system of Gyeongju was composed of Donggyeong-yusu or Gyerim-bu and Gyeongju-sa(a local office). The former was made up of government officials dispatched by state administration, the latter was made up of Hyangni(local functionaries) who lived in the area. Donggyeong-Yusu at the end of the Koryeo Dynasty was demoted to Gyerim-bu, but the position of members was promoted and so people on the level of the minister were designated to Buyun. Hyangni of Gyeongju were made up of headquarters of Hojang and vice Hojang, Hojeong and vice Hojeong, the department of military affairs which had Byeongjeong and vice Byeongjeong and the department of financial affairs which had Changjeong and vice Changjeong. In Gyeongju at the end of the Koryeo Dynasty, the chief of Hojang, Hojang, vice Hojang were mostly from the families of Kim, Lee, and Choi. Though Hyangni were controlled by Yusu, they had a strong self-regulation and sometimes they were freed from the control of Yusu.