yangban
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See also: yàngbǎn
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[edit]yangban (plural yangbans or yangban)
- (historical) A member of the ruling class of male Confucian intellectuals in Korea at and before the time of the Korean Empire.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 900:
- One yangban, Yi Sŭng-hun, provided a new answer to this crisis of authority: while in Beijing serving as a diplomat, he was baptized a Catholic Christian and went home to propagate his faith.