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Meaning of "yangban"

yangban (adjective) - Yangban is a Korean term referring to aristocratic or noble status
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  • A member of the ruling class of male Confucian intellectuals in Korea at and before the time of the Korean Empire.

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Yangban status on a provincial level was de facto hereditary.
While you are a maiden from a yangban clan.
These yangban consisted of civil servants and military officials.
Do not ever think of those yangban as human beings.
The yangban and chungin controlled and ruled over them.
Let me come with you when you go yangban hunting.
They were below the yangban nobles but above the common people.
They thus played a role in maintaining the integrity of the yangban aristocracy.
Below the yangban were a class of clerks and specialists like doctors and accountants.
Others rented land from the yangban as tenant farmers.
A low class person could lose her life just for imitating a yangban.
Am not a yangban.
Joseon Korea installed a centralised administrative system controlled by Confucian scholars who were called Yangban.
Im Yunjidang belonged to the yangban class and lived a life according to accepted convention.
The institute was mainly used by the Yangban class.

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The law set that the Yangban are excused from joining military.
And I became slave to one of the high Yangban families.
He was born to a yangban family of the Jinju Ha lineage.
How about we ransack some yangban abode?
I guess because yangban keep croaking by the day, he must be nervous.
Can a slave propose to a yangban maiden?
Do not you know yangban families only marry into their kin?
To be precise, he bought the pretense of a yangban.
Third, there are works of yangban writers and those of common writers.
That on every full moon, some yangban dies.
Yangban women spent most of their lives in seclusion in the women 's chamber.
Two sentenced criminals are on the run, vandals are attacking yangban.
Yangban sure are different, leaving food on the table and all.
Gasas were commonly sung, and were popular among yangban women.
They are even worse than yangban and slave hunters put together!
Eventually, around three fourths of the population were yangban in name.
Look here, the yangban technique creates a tight seal, with air pockets for greater thermal effect.
Many seowon were established by leading literati, or by local groups of yangban families.
Historically, the yangban the aristocracy during the Joseon.
By making a world which doesn't discriminate between yangban and commoners.
A yangban addressing minions like me with such reverence… I wish you a peaceful stay.
In most cases, seowon served only pupils of the aristocratic yangban class.
During the Gabo Reform, the yangban class was abolished.
The chungin were actually the least populous class, even smaller than the yangban.
Restrictions on wearing the horse hair hat originally denoting a Yangban class status, virtually disappeared.
Although Chun Doong was from a lower class, He 's already showing the qualities of a yangban.
In everyday life, the chungin were below the aristocratic yangban but superior to the sangmin.
With yangban getting shot so often, it 's only natural.
Haboush determines this increase to be correlated with the decrease of yangban women 's inheritance rights.
Aren't those two yangban somewhat of a peculiar sight?
They became most popular among the chungin ( middle class ) and yangban upper class.
Should only the yangban sit comfortably?
Ehh… Must be another one of those wicked yangban.
Why, is my having a past as a yangban all that vexatious?
In Korea there was a class of scholar-officials called the yangban.

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