고구려초기의 沛者와 국가체제

Abstract

A developmental process of the government service system during ancient Korea has been studied comparatively early in the period. It was an established theory that an ancient Korean society had begun as a town society. It was gradually progressed to a castle town nation, to an alliance kingdom, and finally to a centralized authoritarian aristocracy government. Through this process, an ancient Korean government system gradually developed during the process of reorganizing the tribes. This written paper emphasizes specific aspects of an ancient Korean society as well as seeks for the role of Paeja. In Samkoog-Sagi, Paeja was first introduced during King Teajo and continued its existence for the next two centuries which was till the period of King JoongCheon. The role of Paeja was to hold control over military authority of the capital city and provinces, and also to centralize military forces of provinces that were spread throughout alliance territories, so that centralism of the alliance kingdom could be strengthen. During the period of centralism, Daero or Daedaero who lead the unity of aristocrats was brought into relief, rather than Paeja who had focused more on the military power to maintain centralism. Through the period of king Sosurim, Koguryo completely formated the aristocrat national anthem to the royal centralism in the period of king Gwangaeto. Afterwards, a social status system had established based on a more systematic structure. so the royal family was able to manage the central aristocrats as bureaucrats of Koguryo, giving a chance to Daero or DaeDaero to lead the aristocrat bureaucrats rather than Paeja. Thus, the role of Paeja gradually vanished in the history of Koguryo.