朝鮮時代 地方行政區域의 整備에 관한 硏究 : 州·府·郡·縣을 中心으로 = A Study on the Reorganization of Local Administration Area in Chosun Dynasty

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

How can we fitly readjust the local government areas and reasonably establish the tier system to maximize the administrative efficiencies in democratic local bodies? This is one of the issues to which we are faced today. It is necessary, to solve the problems, for us to review the historical and traditional backgrounds of the existing local government area as well as to find new administrative techniques. For almost of the existing local government areas originated from those of the Chosun dynasty, the careful study of the formation and management of the local administration system of Chosun dynasty give us the possibility to measure the importance of the problems to which we are faced and to determine the way how we effectively solve them.
This paper, however, is focused on the limited perspectives in local administration of Chosun dynasty
(1) the purposes and the process of the adjustment of local administration areas and their suborganizations.
(2) the structures of local administration bodies and the problems appeared in their operations.
The conclusion of the study could be summarized as follow ; Chosun had the highly centralized bureaucratic political system based on the confucian ideology. The political power was centred on the king, who exercised his power through the Yangban bureaucrats. The local administration system therefore, was set up to protect the interest of the king and yangban class. Especially the chu. Bu·Kun·Hyun areas which are now the bases of local government bodies, were demarcated for the purpose of strengthening the power of the king and the Sooryung, the head executive and King's delegate in the Chu·Bu·Kun and extending the efficiencies of central control. This is the reason why the existing local government areas are inadequately larger than those of foreign democratic countries. And we, therfore, have to reorganize the existing local government areas adequately in order to practice the local self governing system.