조선후기 傳令의 한글 번역과 대민 유포

Abstract

This paper deals with official edicts(傳令), which refers to directives issued by minor regional government offices in Chinese characters and key contents summarized and translated into han’geul. In these documents, the process of how the king's orders are communicated to the people is described in great detail, from the king ordering the translation and transmission of information to be communicated to the people and his directives passing through the central government offices such as the Office of the Royal Secretariat and the State Council as well as each of the provincial government offices down to the minor regional government offices of prefectures, boroughs, and counties where the directives are translated into han’geul and transmitted. And this custom continued without interruption even after the Gabo Reform of 1894 when the term “official edict” was changed to “official announcement(告示)” and all official announcements were written with a mixture of vernacular Korean and Chinese characters in that these official announcements were translated to contain only han’geul characters.