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Abstract

This essay is to analyze Jungjo 正祖’s several policies for selecting the local talentd people. Since the late Chosun 朝鮮 dynasty, more and more the government official had been come from the seoul, the capital of Chosun. Thus the socio-economic and cultural gap between seoul and other regions in Chosun had seriously increased. Jungjo 正祖 refined several policy to solve this problem. First, He reduced the importance of the Jungsi 庭試, that is an irregular test holding in palace in Seoul, when have a happy event in the state. So the local people have little acquaintance with it and did not engage it. Instead of that, He carryed out a special examination for local student of Oibang Byeolsi 外方 別試more than ever before. Second, He created a new exam of Binhenggua 賓興科, that is a system recommending a good and smart student lived in the country, but he changed it appositely to the case and selected them for himself not through recommendation but by examination. Third, after a series of tests, he chose local talented people of good family first in order to prevent a knot of established bureaucrat from disconfirming new face come from local and country. By implement a series of this new measures, Jungjo 正祖 reduced regional disparity and could seek balanced development between regions without any particular confrict. I hope to learn it from Jungjo 正祖 how to transform and use a classical scholarship, and to be able to solve our own regional disparity problems