명종대 전반의 공적 정치에 대한 인식과 그 추이

Abstract

This paper investigates what the perception on public politics was and how it progressed during Myungjong’s early reign. The focus is especially on the overlapping of the multiple sub-realms of public politics that interweaved political reality. This paper argues that the public politics was composed of three particular realms；Value, Institution, and Behavior. These three realms were gravely affected by the Revolts of the Military in 1170. The former king, Uijong, was criticized for the failure to accomplish the traditionally proper public politics. However, under the military rule, the restoration of the traditionally proper system of public politics was not the objective. During Uibang Lee’s regime, military leaders sought to increase the benefits for the military officials and changed the institutions accordingly. Brutal behaviors by the military were prevalent. Traditional values of the politics were disregarded. Later, Jungbu Jung utilized traditional systems to achieve his objective, transforming the system towards his will. This evoked the anti-military movements by Bodang Kim and Wichong Jo. They claimed the current regime was not the proper public political system. This started the pluralization of claims for the proper public political system. Although their challenges failed, it unleashed the flow of claims for the proper public political system by the various members of Goryeo society.