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Yangban



The Yangban were a well educated scholarly class of male Confucian scholars who were part of the ruling elite within Korea prior to 1910 and the republics period of Korean history. The name yangban, literally "both classes," refers to two kind of classes it consists of: munban (문반;文班), the literary class, and muban (무반;武班), the martial class.



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