Records of Property Inheritance of Kim Gwang-ryeo and His Siblings

This is a record of property division drawn up in 1480, the eleventh year of King Seongjong. It is a hoehoe mungi, a document of amicable property settlement, in which three siblings — the brothers Kim Gwang-ryeo and Kim Gwang-beom, of the sixteenth generation of the Sangsan Kim clan, a family that produced many distinguished figures, and their sister, the wife of Han Geon, a former jwarang (a mid-level official post) — consulted together to divide the land and slaves they had inherited after the death of their parents. The property was divided not by gender but by age, in the order of the eldest, Kim Gwang-ryeo, then Han Geon's wife, and then Kim Gwang-beom, and at the end each of them wrote their name and affixed their sugyeol, a personal mark used in place of a signature. This is a valuable source for the study of Joseon-period society and the family system, and also precious evidence of the idea of equality between men and women held by Koreans at that time.

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Where it is

Region

Jinju, Gyeongnam

Designation

Treasure · 보물