Politics260

King Goi’s Reforms

King Goi of Baekje set up six ministers and sixteen official ranks with robes of set colours, laying the framework of the state.

Mongchon Toseong, Seoul — one of the walled cities of Hanseong-period Baekje
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Goi secured the whole Han River basin and contended with Lelang and Daifang. Officials wore purple, red or blue by rank, and a bribe-taker had to repay threefold. Baekje is seen as becoming a centralized state from his reign.

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States and rulers at the time: Baekje — King Goi
Places: Wiryeseong (Pungnap Earthen Fortress)

People

King GoiAD 286
monarch · Eighth king of Baekje, who set up the six ministers, sixteen ranks and official robes

Before and after

Earlier: AD 250 Government of the Three Kingdoms
Later: AD 300 Daeseong-dong Tombs, Gimhae

Themes that include this event

Central Government Through the AgesAD 250 – 1899
From the noble councils of the Three Kingdoms to the State Council, the Border Defense Council and the Gabo cabinet — how central government shifted between aristocratic consensus and royal power