Yanggwang (named from Yangju, the Southern Capital's county, and Gwangju [not yet checked against the source]) is the circuit of the Han valley and the Chungcheong lands: Namgyeong, Gwangju (the first mok), Chungju and Cheongju (two more of the eight great mok), Suju, Jukju and the road towns to the south.
It is the kingdom's transport spine: the roads from the capital to the south run through it and the river granaries of the Han and the Namhan lie on it [not yet checked against the source]. The later name is Chungcheong (1356 [not yet checked against the source]); we keep it as a note only. Beopjusa and the Gongju country with Myeonghak-so, where the so rose in 1176, lie in it.
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 Yanggwang (name not known); seat not pinned, drawn at Gwangju
- 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
- Namgyeong (the Southern Capital)
- Mok of Gwangju, Chungju and Cheongju
- The Han valley and the Joryeong road
How things stand that morning
Quiet; no rising is recorded for the circuit in 1199 to 1200.
Threats
- Heavy grain levies on the river road
- Local risings as at Myeonghak-so in 1176
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.
- 1231 and afterThe Mongol invasions pass along these roads (Chungju, Jukju) [not yet checked against the source].Depends on: The Mongol conquest of the north, which is of 1211 to 1231 Stopped by: Not in play in 1200
Places of note
- Namgyeong: Southern Capital
- Gwangju: Mok
- Chungju: Mok
- Cheongju: Mok
- Suju: County
- Jukju: Road town
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; the west coast and the Han mouth are included, Ganghwa is not.
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.