Gyeongsang (written from Gyeongju and Sangju [not yet checked against the source]) is the south-east: the Eastern Capital Dongkyeong (Gyeongju), the mok of Sangju and Jinju, the protectorates of Andong and Dongnae, Geumju (Gimhae), Milseong and Ulju, with Haeinsa, Tongdosa, Buinsa and Bulguksa among the great temples.
It is the richest circuit after the capital's own and the most troubled: Kim Sa-mi and Hyo-sim rose in its hills in 1193 to 1194; on the likely course Jeong Bang-ui and the Jinju slaves rise in the spring of 1200 and the Gyeongju 'Silla restoration' follows in 1202. The old Silla elite still sit in Gyeongju's registers (Gyeongju elite). We take Ulleung as a claim and leave it to the realm record.
There is no assembly of the circuit. The tax is rice, cloth and local goods by county, carried by the river granaries and by sea, and the clerk families (hyangni) of each county keep the registers.
Who holds it
- Title
- Circuit commissioner of Gyeongsang (name not known); seat not pinned, drawn at Sangju
- Confidence
- low
No source we could read names the officer in 1200
Overlord
The king at Gaegyeong, in fact Choe Chung-heon
What it holds
- Gyeongju (Dongkyeong)
- Mok of Sangju and Jinju
- Andong and Dongnae
- Geumju (Gimhae) and the Japan gate
How things stand that morning
Quiet on 1 January; the storm gathers for the spring.
Threats
- The Jinju slave rising (the likely course, spring of 1200, not yet begun)
- The Gyeongju rising (the likely course, 1202)
- Remnants of the 1193 party in the hills
What the year holds
What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.
In 1200
- Sinjong 3, about the 4th lunar month (about April to May 1200, month not pinned)The Jinju rising under Jeong Bang-ui spreads to Geumju and Hapju.Depends on: The clerks' exactions; the slaves' grievance Stopped by: A quick answer; pardon; the commissioner's troops
Later, on the likely course
- Sinjong 5 (1202)The Gyeongju 'Silla restoration' rising.Depends on: Local grievance and the 1193 precedent Stopped by: Prompt force from the capital
Places of note
- Dongkyeong (Gyeongju): Eastern Capital
- Sangju: Mok
- Jinju: Mok
- Andong: Protectorate
- Geumju (Gimhae): Japan gate
- Dongnae: Strait coast
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The names and the make-up of the circuits are from the Chinese Wikipedia article on Goryeo's divisions and the regional brief; the details of 1200 are recollection.
On the map: Polygon from modern districts; Uljin is left to Donggye; the east-coast edge near Pohang is approximate.
Primary sources for Goryeo
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Essentials of the History of Goryeo, Kim Jong-seo (金宗瑞) and the Joseon history office (1452). The chronological companion to the Goryeosa, finished a year after it and drawing on the same lost records, sometimes with entries the Goryeosa omits. Read online
- Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, Bi Yuan (畢沅), completed by Feng Jiwu after his death (late eighteenth century, finished after 1801, from Song and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's continuous month-by-month chronicle of the Song and Yuan centuries, compiled from the Song shi, the Liao, Jin and Yuan histories, Li Tao, Li Xinchuan and other Song sources. Read online
- History of Goryeo, Jeong Inji (鄭麟趾), Kim Jong-seo (金宗瑞) and the Joseon history office (completed 1451, from the Goryeo veritable records and earlier drafts). The official history of Goryeo, compiled by the Joseon state from the lost Goryeo veritable records. Read online
- History of the Jin, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers (1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history). The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria in 1200. Read online
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
- Draft Compilation of the Collected Statutes of the Song, Various; the Song huiyao were compiled by the Song state, the surviving draft reassembled by Xu Song from the Yongle dadian in the nineteenth century (the original Song compilations date from the eleventh to the thirteenth century; the surviving extracts were recovered in 1809 to 1820 and printed in 1936). Dated extracts from the Song government's own statute collections, arranged by office. Read online
- Description of the Foreign Peoples (Chau Ju-kua), Zhao Rukuo (趙汝适) (about 1225, while superintendent of maritime trade at Quanzhou). The Song customs officer's survey of the overseas world, compiled from merchants and from Zhou Qufei, a generation after 1200 but describing trade routes that were the same in 1200. Read online
- Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country (Yi Gyu-bo), Yi Gyu-bo (李奎報) (poems and prose from the 1190s to 1241; collected and printed by his son in 1241, with a supplement in 1242). The collected poems, letters, memorials and essays of a Goryeo scholar who was thirty-two and still seeking office in 1200. Read online
2 more in the sources library for Korea and Japan.
Sources and studies
- Goryeo administrative divisions 高麗行政區劃 (Chinese Wikipedia)
- Sheet brief KJA_BRIEF.md and the OMNIA board notes (leads, not sources)
- Goryeosa, Goryeosa jeoryo, Samguk yusa, Lee Ki-baik, Shultz: not opened in this run (Wikisource could not be reached); facts marked recollection come from these as remembered
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.