朝鮮後期 地方社會 公職官吏의 腐敗相에 대한 一考

This article analyzes provisions and occasions relating to the corruption of local community in the late Joseon Dynasty. According to Gyeonggugdaejeon(經國大典) and succeeding codes of the Joseon Dynasy, various misconducts of public officers should be prohibited with heavy punishment. But the strict administration of justice was not accomplished and it resulted in wide corruptions of local communities in the late Joseon Dynasty that could be related by Joseonwangjosillok(朝鮮王朝實錄) and other materials. Especially the lower bureaucrats assisting local governor made lots of scandals and some examples are illustrated in Mokminsimseo(牧民心書) written by the great scholar, Jeong Yak-Yong(丁若鏞). All kinds of bribery and extortion of public officers are evaluated as cancers to healthy government and only the aspiration for clean society would get rid of corruptions.