樂浪郡 호구 목독의 사료적 성격과 郡의 주민구성

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review the original text and related studies of the “the Household Register of Lelang Commandery,” which was a wooden tablet recording the number of households of the Lelang Commandery. It specifically focused on the issues about the ethnic composition of the population of Lelang Commandery, since the ethnic composition was closely related to the commandery’s governance over the residents. The discussions about the ethnic composition was closely related to the debate over classification criteria for the households listed under Kiho(其戶) in the Register. Accordingly, the paper suggested that the criteria of the households listed under Kiho were an ethnic distinction between Han Chinese and Old Chosŏn’s population.
 This ethnic distinction in the register reflected active process of Sinicization to the residents of the commandery from the Han Empire, which influenced the number of resident per household. Although there was assuredly intensity difference, Sinicization was applied to the ‘Seven Counties in Yŏngdong,’ which were believed to be the most unstable region for the Han Empire’s governance. As a result, the system of the commandery’s governance remained in this region for a long time, and only those from different ethnicity replaced the original members of this system after the counties transferred into marquisates.