근대 초기 漢城府 商人의 계층적 존재양상과 가족 특성 - 1903․1906년 漢城府 戶籍을 중심으로 -

Abstract

With the aim of exploring the merchants of Hanseongbu in the early modern period from various angles, this study examined the records of their life left in the family register of the time in terms of class, region and group. It attempted to understand the life style and identity of the merchants and their families as a group through the process. Thus, it analyzed the personal information and families of 1,250 family heads of the merchants focusing on 10 areas(10坊) that showed the highest presence of merchants in Hanseongbu’s family register in the early modern period. At that time, Hanseongbu merchants had a group identity and characteristics in age, way to indicate their jobs and place of previous residence etc. including geographical characteristics between inside Hanseongbu(城內) and outside Hanseongbu(城外). In terms of equipment, employment, cohabitation ratio and the size and type of houses, merchant families’ social and economical status showed a difference depending on where they lived, inside or outside Hanseongbu, and merchant families who lived inside Hanseongbu had a higher social and economical status. With the merchants’ families showing a difference in relatives residing together and family types etc. according to where they lived, nuclear households of a couple+unmarried children appeared high outside Hanseongbu and households of a single or a non-linear extended family appeared high inside Hanseongbu. Their families cohabited with married siblings and relatives, and formed business partnership compared to public officer families and agricultural families, and showed a unique characteristic of family business. As a result, Hanseongbu merchants showed a group and family identity differentiated from other classes in the region where they lived, and existed as a distinct social class in the early modern city of Hanseongbu.