조선후기 서얼의 마을 개발과 결속 －경주 여주이씨 옥산동 동계를 중심으로－ = Village Development and Cooperation in the Late Choson Period －A Case Study of the Yeoju Clan’s OkSan Village－

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This study analyses the process by which the Yeoju Lee clan developed and established ownership of their village, Oksan, over a period of 300 years. It takes Oksan as a case study for village development and cooperation in the late period of the Joseon Dynasty from the 16^th to the 18^th century. Oksan’s rivalry with the neighbouring village, Yanjwa, also offers an example of competition between villages in the area of Gyeongju, Gyeongsang Province during this period.
Oksan village is inhabited by the descendants of the concubine Lee Eon-jeok. In the late Joseon Period, there were restrictions on community participation and social activities, as well as competition and conflict between the descendants of Lee Eon-jeok and the inhabitants of Yangjwa Village. Against this background, the Yeoju Lee clan in Oksan made gradual efforts towards building village solidarity to enhance community participation and respond to conflict.
The inhabitants of Oksan had inherited land, servants and houses from Lee Eon-jeok and had decided to establish the village in the 16^th century, intending it to be separate from and a rival in wealth to the village of Yangjwa. In the 17^th century, the Jeonghye Union kye and the Oksan village kye were established to expand the village. In the first half of the 18^th century, in order to cope with a growing external crisis, the Yeoju Lee clan and some of its connections revived the village kye and helped to achieve the stabilisation of the village by providing assistance to its members both upper and lower class for funerals. After the mid-18^th century, as a fruit of the strengthened solidarity and cooperation within the Oksan village, the Yeoju Lee clan established the Jangsan Confucian Academy, which cemented the central place of this clan in the village.