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‖ yangban|ˈjæŋbæn|
Also yang-ban, yang ban; yangpan; and with capital initial.
[ad. Korean lyāngpan, f. lyāng both, a pair + pan social class.]
a. The former ruling class in Korea.
b. A member of this; an aristocrat or gentleman; (see also quot. 1972).
1898I. L. Bird Korea & her Neighbours I. iv. 60 The youths who swing and lounge on sunny afternoons along the broad streets, aping the gait of yang-bans, are aspirants for official position. 1904W. E. Griffis Corea (ed. 7) xlix. 443 In the Land of Morning Radiance there is a governing minority consisting of about one-tenth of the whole population. These, the Yangban..living on ancient privilege and prerogative and virtually paying no taxes or tolls, prey upon the common people. 1906H. B. Hulbert Passing of Korea ii. 47 The common people constantly went down in the scale and the so-called yangban went up, until a condition of things was reached which formed the limit of the people's endurance. 1908G. T. Ladd In Korea with Marquis Ito xii. 292 As for the Yang⁓ban, on no account will he do manual work. 1952C. Osgood Koreans viii. 147 The taking of concubines by rich husbands was a commonplace and, in the event that a son was not born to the legal wife..it became an almost inevitable procedure on the part of a Yangpan of distinguished family. 1972P. M. Bartz South Korea iv. 46/2 The civil service was known as Tongban (eastern class) and the military as Soban (western class), and the two together as Yangban, a word later used generally to refer to the nobility, and today used by women of the middle class in polite reference to their husbands or other men. 1977Korea Jrnl. Dec. 21/2 All the citizens had to read the intentions of the ruling yangban class and Confucian scholars. |