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List of Joseon people
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This is a partial list of people who lived during the Joseon period of Korea, 1392–1910.
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Royals
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Scholar-officials
Scholar-officials, or munsin, held much of the power in the Joseon Dynasty bureaucracy. Many members of the intellectual elite, also remembered for their work as poets or philosophers, served as scholar-officials. Such service, however, was restricted to members of the hereditary yangban class.
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Military officials
Military service was technically open to people outside the yangban class, but in practice most high posts were held by the aristocracy.
Others
The common classes of Joseon included the yangmin free farmers, the jungin technical class, and the cheonmin underclass. These constituted the bulk of Joseon society, but only a handful of them are known to us today.
Women
Prominent women of the Joseon period were usually either of the high aristocratic class or kisaeng female entertainers.
- Hwang Jin-i
- Non Gae
- Jang Geum, royal physician
- Yi Mae-chang
- Seo Yeongsuhap, poet and mathematician
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Authors
Many of the best-known writers of the Joseon period were also scholar-officials; they are listed above.
Inventors
Some scholar-officials, such as Chŏng Yagyong, also worked as inventors.
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