16세기 양반관료의 외정 -유희춘의 『미암일기』를 중심으로- = Yangban officials` Love Affair in the 16th Century -Focus on the Miam Diary(眉巖日記) of Yu Huichun-

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

There are lots of events that the noblemen in Choson dynasty keep women below the common people as secret mistresses because of the idea of their position or class consciousness prevalent in their whole life. That is, they classify women into the noblewomen and the remaining women, differently recognizing and treating women. The diary of the 16th century shows that the noblemen seemed to make sport of female slaves or official dancing girls easily and without hesitation, but it is difficult to draw a conculsion that such phenomenon is caused by reckless greed of an indlvidual. Especially, not only social conditions in which, indifferently from one`s own intent, the noblemen can easily enjoy the sex instinct were formed, but institutional support was provided. This paper, centering around Yu Huichun, a nobel bureaucrat in the 16th century, examines why he kept a female slave and Kisaeng(a singing and dancing girl), how the real aspect was and what kind of problems was caused by that. In view of Yu Huichun`s case, it seems difficult to owe the whoring of a husband to only problems between husband and wife. Because the couple of Yu Huichun lived in conjugal harmony, having one son and one daughter. It seems that the whoring of a husband resulted from living type. The couple of Yu Huichun had lived for 40 years after marriage, but the period during which they actially lived together was not more than half the 40 years. That was partly because that Yu Huichun had been condemned to exile for a long time due to Eulsasahwa(乙巳士禍). Besides that, it was a general living type that in case of religious service bureaucrat, a wife lived in her husband`s home town supervising and managing the whole household affairs while her husband was up in the capital. Accordingly, the husband needed a woman to take care of him resulting in keeping a mistress and Kisaeng. Kisaeng was another sexual subject of a nobleman. These Kisaeng were divided into 京?(Capital Kisaeng) and 官?(official Kisaeng) and it was official Kisaeng whom a nobleman easily contact. Official Kisaeng participated in various festivals to pour wine into a glass, dance, paly music and sleep with a nobleman, and a local official was institutionally permitted to sleep with official Kisaeng, which was intended to soothe the discomforts of a local official who was away from home. Yu Huichun was also provided with 房?(Room Kisaeng) while he was on duty as a Jolla-do governor. Among many Kisaeng, he especially had a close relation to Gwangju Kisaeng namd Yeon and Jeonju Kisaeng named Okgyeonga. However, the relation to these official Kisaeng was broke off upon replacement of a local official. Because the Kisaeng belonged to the relevant local government office, they basically could not free from the area within the jurisdiction of the government office. Yu Huichun kept a girl named GuJildeok 15 years younger than he as a concubine during the days of his banishment and got to have four children. A female slave, like Kisaeng, was a subject whom a nobleman could easily violate, and relatively easy to keep her as a concubine though she was not superior to Kisaeng in terms of beauty and talent. The process of Yu Huichun keeping a concubine was not confiied, but the girl named GuJildeok was considered to become Yu Huichun`s concubine as she takes care of Yu Huichun during the period of his banishment. The reckless sex life was not only individual problem, but also elements which caused various social problems. Immoderate sexual intercourse led to suffering from a venereal disease and also caused a short life. Besides that, it became major element which broing about discord between husband and wife. In the event a nobleman took a female of humble birth, their children was forced to live a hard life due to their positional restrictions, and the relation between master and servant used to be formed between the domestic children in case when children were born from a concu