{"id":372,"date":"2010-02-02T13:38:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/korea\/?p=372"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:21:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:21:50","slug":"things-i-dont-know-about-korea-part-1-of-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2010\/02\/things-i-dont-know-about-korea-part-1-of-many\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I don&#8217;t know about Korea, part 1 of many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;m teaching my <a href=\"http:\/\/dresnerkorea.edublogs.org\/korea-since-1700-spring-2010\/\">Korean History course<\/a> I am, of course, running into questions I cannot answer. I&#8217;m going to post them here periodically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Though the Choson-era Korean Army (in its various commanderies and provincial forms) was conscripted from peasantry (and officered, it appears, by military Yangban), where did the Navy get its personnel? You can&#8217;t just conscript a peasant and put him on a ship and expect him to be useful: did they recruit from fishing communities, or was there a training process?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the numerical breakdown of Choson society? I&#8217;ve seen suggestions that as much as 20-30% were in the unfree categories at the bottom of the social scale, but I can&#8217;t seem to get a handle on the Yangban and Chungnin classes, either in total population or (as one of my students asked) rate of shedding members to lower classes.<\/li>\n<li>Who was the aged, deeply bearded gentleman depicted on the Japanese colonial-era Korean bills? (See below)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jondresner\/4325956076\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2742\/4325956076_d20d2a944f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" alt=\"Tokai Currency - Korea Japanese Colonial One Yen\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;m teaching my Korean History course I am, of course, running into questions I cannot answer. I&#8217;m going to post them here periodically: Though the Choson-era Korean Army (in its various commanderies and provincial forms) was conscripted from peasantry (and officered, it appears, by military Yangban), where did the Navy get its personnel?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126,211,183,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-korea","category-korea-japan","category-military"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-60","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6026,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/6026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}