songgol
Korean social system
Also known as: sacred bone
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place in kolp’um
- In kolp’um
…the system: two gols (sŏnggol, or “sacred bone,” and chin’gol, or “true bone”) and six dup’ums (or “head ranks”). The two gols were from the royal and formerly royal families; the sixth dup’um through the fourth were from the general nobility, and the third down to the first from…
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