Kim Gae’s Records of Property InheritanceThis is Kim Gae’s Records of Property Inheritance owned by Buan’s Kim Clan in Udong-ri, Boan-myeon, Buan-gun. This document is a special gift written by Kim Hong-won for his grandson Kim Gae who lived in Buan-hyeon. The Documents of Buan’s Kim Clan were designated as Treasure No. 900 in 1986.
Red Certificate Issued to Kim Myeong-yeolAs one of the Documents of Buan’s Kim Clan in Udong-ri, Boan-myeon, Buan-gun, this is the Red Certificate Issued to Kim Myeong-yeol, which was received by Kim Myeong-yeol when he passed the state examination in 1651.
Song Chi-jung’s Document related to Express ProvisionsAs one of the Documents of Buan’s Kim Clan in Udong-ri, Boan-myeon, Buan-gun, this is Song Chi-jung’s Document related to Express Provisions, which is a document for the sale of the property written by Song Chi-jung in 1688.
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Location47-20, Udong-gil Boan-myeon, Buan-gun, Jeollabuk-do
- CategoryCultural Heritage / Tangible Cultural Heritage
- Korean부안 김씨 종중 고문서 일괄
- Chinese扶安金氏宗中古文書一括
- Nickname우반동 고문서
- FieldHistory / Premodern
- Contents TypeTextual Data / Documents
- Definition
- A collection of ancient documents owned by the Buan Kim clan in Udong-ri, Boan-myeon, Buan-gun, Jeollabuk-do.
- Summary
- The Collection of Ancient Documents of the Buan Kim Clan, whose members had lived in Udong-ri, Boan-myeon, Buan-gun, Jeollabuk-do for many generations, includes early 700 documents that have mainly been kept by Kim Jong-deok, Kim Jong-gyu, Kim Hyeong-bok, and Kim Eul-sul among others. In particular, Kim Jong-deok’s collections of the documents are currently kept at Sedeokgak House where is the Buan Kim clan’s ritual house located in Udong-ri, Boan-myeon, Buan-gun. Among them, eighty documents (of six types) were designated as the Documents of the Buan Kim Clan (Treasure No. 900) on November 29, 1986. The documents are also known as the “Uban-dong Documents” as today’s Udong-ri used to be called Uban-dong.
This collection include diverse documents including certificates of appointment, express provisions, household register, petitions, circular letters, official documents, approvals, estate certificates of registration, records of property inheritance, marriage documents, and examination papers, which constituted a record of local life of spanning a period of 400 years from the mid-fifteenth to the early twentieth century. These documents are regarded as important ancient documents of the Honam area as they inform the evolution and establishment of an aristocratic (yangban) social life based in hangcheon community at the countryside. However, the letters and ritual prayers kept by the Buan Kim clan were excluded from designation as Treasures. Some of the documents are available at the Honam Record Culture System, which is provided by the Chonbuk National University Museum and on the website of the Center for Korean Studies Materials in the Honam Area.
- Composition / Contents
- Documents of the Buan Kim Clan contain diverse collections including a document (yuji) granting a set of fabrics to the Mayor of Geumsan Kim Hong-won at the king’s special order on April 6, 1600 (the 33rd year of the reign of King Seonjo), a royal edict (gyoji), certificates of official appointment (gyocheop), a petition (soji) submitted by an ordinary person or a nobleman to a government office, records of property inheritance (bunjaegi), express provisions (myeongmun), and a certificate of meritorious subject (gongsinnokgwon).
The details of the documents are as follows:
1. Certificates of Appointment (gosin): There are eighty-two certificates of appointment (gosin) and promotion (gwango), which were issued to Kim Hong-won, Kim Myeong-yeol, Kim Beon, Kim Gok, Kim Taek-sam, Kim Sun-hyeop, Kim Heung-tae, and Kim Hyeong-du among others, between 1613 and 1903.
2. Red Certificates (hongpae) & White Certificates (baekpae): There are six red and white certificates that were issued to Kim Seok-pil, Kim Hong-won, Kim Myeong-yeol, Kim Su-jong, Kim Ok, and Kim Sang-seong upon passing the state examination for civil official and military service from 1502 to 1786.
3. Certificates of Appointment issued to Junior Officials (chacheop): There are sixteen certificates of appointment that were issued to junior officials including Kim Myeong-yeol (1652), Kim Taek-sam, Kim Byeong-heon, Kim Chae-sang, Kim Jun-gi, and Kim Jae-sang between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
4. Petitions (soji): There are 103 petitions including letters of plea (wonjeong), letters to a superior (sangseo), and appeals against the village head’s decision (uisong), all of which were submitted to the government office by members of the Buan Kim clan between the sixteenth and nineteenth century.
5. Family Registers (hojeokmunseo): There are 120 family register documents including the junhogu (to be issued at the request of the head of a family) issued to Kim Myeong-yeol (1672), and other junhogu and household register (hogu danja) documents ranging from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.
6. Evidential Documents (jeongbeeingryu): There are forty-four evidential documents including an estate certificate of registration issued to Kim Jye-hyeon (1585), approvals (wanmun) for exchanging grain and exemption from compulsory labor issued to Kim Chae-sang (1863), eleven checks, and two documents related to jural succession (to establish an heir).
7. Records of Property Inheritance (bunjaegi): There are forty-two records related to property inheritances that include a special gift writ, which was written by Kim Seok-pil in 1521, and writs on the mutual consent of family members, and other records written by Kim Gyeong-sun, Kim Myeong-yeol, Kim Beon, Kim Su-jong and other family members.
8. Documents related to Express Provisions (myeongmun): There are 130 documents containing express provisions that were written between the sixteenth and early twentieth century, including one written when Kim Gyeong-sun purchased farmland in 1570.
9. Circular Letters (tongmun): There are eleven circular letters that were written at a Confucian Academy, Local Confucian School, or Clan meeting, including the letter sent from Jeonjuhyanggyo to the Buanhyanggyo Local Confucian Schools in 1873.
10. Examination Papers (sigwon): There are twenty-two examination papers written by Kim Su-jong, Kim Ok, and other family members, including one written by Kim Hong-won for a civil official examination in 1591.
11. Fortune Telling Records (munbokrok): There are seventeen fortune telling records including those written when Kim Su-jong and Kim Bang-gil had a psychic reading in 1800.
- Historical Significance
- The Documents of the Buan Kim Clan in Buan comprise large numbers of diverse types of documents that were written over a long period of time ranging from the mid-fifteenth to the early twentieth century. As such, these documents help historians to understand and analyze the development and history of one aristocratic family belonging to the rural society of Buan. As this recorded history of the Buan Kim clan also sheds light on many aspects of the way of life of a rural community during the late Joseon period beyond a purely macroscopic view of the country’s history, the Documents of the Buan Kim Clan are regarded as invaluable historical refernece for research and studies on the history of Korea.