선조16년 동서 갈등 전개와 ‘계미삼찬(癸未三竄)’

Abstract

A series of big political conflict occurred between Dongin(東人) andSeoin(西人), which were 2 main political parties, in the 16th year ofking Seonjo regime. That political conflict was known asGyemisamchan(癸未三竄). Due to the event, many important figureswho had belonged to Dongin party were banished from the centralpolitical stage, and be demoted. The strifes between Dongin and Seoin seemed to assume the powerstruggles. However, only the power struggles can not fully explaindeeper causes of the strifes between Dongin and Seoin. Dongin andSeoin had their own different political correctness. Also they had theirown opinion on the relationship between the public opinions andSamsa(三司), which meant 3 journalist official departments of Jeoseongovernment. Dongin who dominated Samsa convinced that only Samsahad exclusive rights for the public opinions, but Seoin didn’t agree tothe thought. Furthermore, Dongin and Seoin had different frames of the politicalaspects for the early period of King Seojo regime. Seoin assumed thatthe political reforms were performed at that period, which was leadby Sarim. On the other hand, Dongin just regarded the time as the political dark periods, when the maternal relatives of the king still hadpolitical powers. Dongin didn’t concede several political reformscarried out for the early period of King Seonjo regime, which werelead by Seoin party. In the 16th year of King Seonjo regime, Yi I’s political idea waseventually wrecked. For him, the reunion between Dongin and Seoinmeant unitary Sarim(士林), and political idealism.