17-18세기 海南尹氏家의 토지 확장 방식과 사회․경제적 지향

Abstract

This study was designed to investigate the process of Haenam Yun family's expanding its social and economic influence in the region, in which the family had resided for generations since the 16th century. The family maintained its grounds in Hanyang from the 16th century to the middle 18th century, during which many of its members took office in the central government. Even during exile, they were stubborn about not leaving Hanyang, which shows their political orientation toward the central political circles. The Yun family possessed such vast amounts of land through reclamation as early as the middle 16th century that its wealth became controversial at the royal court. In the 17th and 18th century, they further expanded their land through intensive purchase, sublease, and development of reclaimed land. Unlike their political orientation, their land expansion remained within the perimeters of Haenam and Jindo. They struck harmony between relieving local people and mobilizing them for land cultivation during economic expansion, thus establishing their social position in the community and expanding their network with local people. As a result, they maintained their status with enormous influences on the communities even though they led a life as a local noble family in Haenam after giving up their political orientation toward the central political circles in the middle 18th century.