This study deals with the political characteristics of Taoist development under the reign of King Yejong The utilitarian policies to enrich and strengthen the kingdom had been carried out from the reign of King Sukjong. But when nine fortresses that had been constructed after the assault against the Jurchen had to be retroceded, King's leadership was damaged, and the policy should be changed. King Yejong and his advisor group devised the new policy to renovate the education and culture, and to stabilize the people's livelihood in order to save the difficult situation. They attached importance to the diplomatic relations with Sung China and the cultural import from there. They adopted Taoism as a part of that policy. They expected Taoist to pray gods for the salvation of the kingdom. Moreover, a idea of Taoist ritual Cho was that a king's ruling was ordained by Heaven. That idea had the effect of strengthening the status of king According to adoption of Taoism, Laotzu and Chuangtzu's thought spread much more in the Koryo society. Yi Jung Yak·Kwak Yeo·Yi Ja Hyeon·Jeong Ji Sang were the representative men who wanted to live as a Taoist hermit scholar. Taoism taught the freedom from avarice and to take delight in the Taoist Way. From a political viewpoint, it could become a idea that the tainted Munbeol Aristocrats Society should be reformed. In the Taoist political thought, so-called Doing Nothing, the virtuous ruling of the king involved the education and the selection of fit persons for bureaucrat, and frequent communications with bureaucrats intimately. In a group of King Yejong's royal cronies, which was leaded by Han An In, there were many new rising officials who had studied not only Confucianism but also Taoism. They tried to solve the problems of the kingdom against such tainted aristocrats as Yi Ja Kyeom family party. They assumed critical attitudes toward the opinions to establish a new despotic system as well as to keep the old regime. They prefered to a balanced bureaucracy. But when Yi Ja Kyeom became to exercise decisive political power as King Injong's maternal grandfather, they were purged by him.

This study deals with the political characteristics of Taoist development under the reign of King Yejong The utilitarian policies to enrich and strengthen the kingdom had been carried out from the reign of King Sukjong. But when nine fortresses that had been constructed after the assault against the Jurchen had to be retroceded, King's leadership was damaged, and the policy should be changed. King Yejong and his advisor group devised the new policy to renovate the education and culture, and to stabilize the people's livelihood in order to save the difficult situation. They attached importance to the diplomatic relations with Sung China and the cultural import from there. They adopted Taoism as a part of that policy. They expected Taoist to pray gods for the salvation of the kingdom. Moreover, a idea of Taoist ritual Cho was that a king's ruling was ordained by Heaven. That idea had the effect of strengthening the status of king According to adoption of Taoism, Laotzu and Chuangtzu's thought spread much more in the Koryo society. Yi Jung Yak·Kwak Yeo·Yi Ja Hyeon·Jeong Ji Sang were the representative men who wanted to live as a Taoist hermit scholar. Taoism taught the freedom from avarice and to take delight in the Taoist Way. From a political viewpoint, it could become a idea that the tainted Munbeol Aristocrats Society should be reformed. In the Taoist political thought, so-called Doing Nothing, the virtuous ruling of the king involved the education and the selection of fit persons for bureaucrat, and frequent communications with bureaucrats intimately. In a group of King Yejong's royal cronies, which was leaded by Han An In, there were many new rising officials who had studied not only Confucianism but also Taoism. They tried to solve the problems of the kingdom against such tainted aristocrats as Yi Ja Kyeom family party. They assumed critical attitudes toward the opinions to establish a new despotic system as well as to keep the old regime. They prefered to a balanced bureaucracy. But when Yi Ja Kyeom became to exercise decisive political power as King Injong's maternal grandfather, they were purged by him.

Taoism, King Yejong, Han An In, Koryo-Sung Relations