朝鮮後期 羅州諸島의 折受와 設邑論議의 展開

Abstract

The present essay attempts to shed lights on the change in ways of governing local societies during the late Choseon dynasty with the case study of the Naju(羅州) archipelago. The islands off present-day Naju in the southwestern Korean Peninsula had been mostly used as Saboksi (司僕寺) pasturage before they were vastly developed as occupied by various local administrative stations during the 17th century. The land, salterns and fisheries were important sources of finances for those administrative stations. The way of governing these islands became more private than official in nature, and there were growing conflicts between local administrative stations and the Naju county office which was eventually charge of governing households(戶口) and people’s land(民田) in the islands. The difficult situation culminated at the debate on the issue of establishing a separate county in the Naju archipelago. The debate ended in vail as King Yeongjo(英祖) and powerful central bureaucrats opposed to the proposal of institutionalizing a separate county. People in the islands also opposed to the proposal, since they were worried about the double taxation by the new county officials as well as existing administrative stations such as Gungbang(宮房) and Amun(衙門). The debate on the issue of establishing a separate county at the islands off the southwestern Peninsula should be understood in terms of an attempt to include all the lands in a single regional administrative structure. It is not until in 1896 after more than a one century and half of the debate that the separate county, Jido County(智島郡), was finally established.