19세기 관아의 주방과 수령의 음식

Abstract

This thesis began as an attempt to answer the question: Where the food offered to the governors who resided at the local government office and to public and private guests who visited the government office has been managed? A newly-appointed local governor was served food at Gwanju (官廚, the government office's kitchen) everyday, and the guests who frequently visited the government office was also served at Gwanju. Besides, the district people and the office's functionaries and clerks were provided with food from Gwanju. What kind of place was the Gwanju, which organization Gwanju was attached to, and other details such as location and scale were examined by considering the case of Hoeng-Muk Oh (1834-1906) who was a governor of Yeongnam region (Gyeongsang-do) in 19th century. The matters such as who was in charge of the Gwanju and the range of the goods managed at the Gwanju were also covered. First of all, by mentioning the public functions of the Gwanju which had been recognized as the private domain of the local governor, I attempted to see that the Gwanju was a critical tool for the governor's administration. Tracing the figure of the Gwanju that prepared the food for local governors of the Joseon Government, the independent organization in charge of preparing the food for the office was 'Gwancheong (官廳)'. The Gwancheong was an organization that did the actual cooking and managed kitchen utensils and food. That is, the local government office had a separate building called Gwancheong in charge of operations relating to the dietary life of the office, and the Gwanju was a term describing the cooking space in the Gwancheong building concretely. Although the food at the Gwanju, closely connected to the dietary life of the governors, was more of a private nature outwardly, it was the medium that delivered the central dispensation of King down to the low-level organizations of local people while having a public function which the local governors used as a governing means to control the county people, functionaries and clerks. The governors conducted his operations such as the encouragement of agriculture and education by using the food at Gwanju and showed another side of his government while encouraging loyalty, filial piety and chastity and giving the proper reward to the county people. Besides, excessive entertaining of public and private guests was subject to inspection and even for a private guest for the governor, poor entertaining was regarded as the neglect of his duties. In conclusion, the domain of Gwanju lying on the boundary between public and private could be balanced by fair ethics permeating the consciousness of the host and honored guests who received the food of Gwanju.