King Kyong-Moon took the throne with the compromise among the royal families. On thathe direction of the setting up of the despotic rule and his brother We-Hong tok the initiative in the reform. Thereafter, without any rivalry, the three children of K...
King Kyong-Moon took the throne with the compromise among the royal families. On thathe direction of the setting up of the despotic rule and his brother We-Hong tok the initiative in the reform. Thereafter, without any rivalry, the three children of King Kyong-Moon took turns in the successions to the throne. They are King Hun-Kang, King Jung-Kang, and Quen Jin-Sung. We-Hong played an important role in their successions and after Queen untry. In that situation, We-Hong's death dealt the country a serious political blow. The nobility rebeled against the central government, while hostile peoples from the regions of the country. In the end, the country fel into the state of anarchy, in which the nobility in 2 新羅文化 第 27輯regions competed against each other to take hold of the political power. The Ho-Jok was the winers of these regional conflicts under arms between the late Sila and early Koryo dynasties. The Ho-Jok took their choice in the alternatives of either the subjection to the Sila dynasty or the independence from it. Meanwhile, the Sila dynasty lost its power of control and in several regions, public sentiments revealed retro feelings to return to the political structure of the old Three Kingdoms. In consequence, the age of the Late Three Kingdoms started. [주제어] 경문왕(景文王, King kyung-moon), 전제정치(專制政治, despotism), 위홍(魏弘,Wee-Hong), 전횡(專橫, arbitrariness) 왕위계승(王位繼承,succession to the throne) , 반항(反抗, opposition), 내전(內戰, internal war), 호족(豪族, Ho-Jok), 지역정서(地域情緖, regional emotion), 후삼국(後三國, the Late Three Kingdom)