대동법 이후 쇄마역 정비와 운영 - 남원, 임천 사례를 중심으로 -

Abstract

During the Joseon dynasty, swaema refers to the conscription of horses and drivers for local administration purposes that was levied as a form of service on the local residents. Along with a majority of state- and locally-imposed services, swaema was regulated under the Daedong Law and was officially included in the system. However, Daedong Law created a structure where the official finance for the local administration was defined, it became a burden for the local administrative offices to manage the horse conscripting services while meeting the regulations. Consequently, different local administrative offices each developed diverse non-statutory countermeasures to fund the cost of horse conscription and provision. By analyzing the cases of the 18th century local administration, this article argues the following points: First, at least in the southern parts of Joseon, hiring horses was mainly related to the administrative demand and even though its expenses could not be structurally covered under the regulations, there always had to be horse conscription. Second, in these cases, the cost was distributed and paid by among the local administration, the residents, and the horse providers, implying that it was to remove imbalance of the financial burden caused by the swaema services.