Talk:Yangban

Image for Yangban
I think the image Image:Yangban party.jpg is quite misleading. The only Yangban in the drawing is at lying at the top-right corner, and he does not really represent a typical Yangban. According to, the title of the drawing is related to farming and farmers. //Memming 19:42, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * OK, please feel free to change it for a better one. (I thought it was fairly clear that the yangban was the person in the top right). -- Visviva 23:04, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * But Yangban didn't work so much? with their prerogative? I think this is good picture and should be left and add another pic as well. - 10:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

The Time
The time should be until 1910. This system was abolished or had not been adopted under Japan rule. - 10:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The yangban was not a system, it was a social identity. And really the yangban were very much intact up until 1945. Soul Slayer 07:52, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Neutrality
The article, especially the introduction, takes a rather anti-yangban tone; literally the first sentence calls them "parasitic." Whatever your opinion of them (I haven't the information to form one myself), surely the yangban deserve an objective treatment. Wikipedia does not adopt this kind of tone even with regard to the Nazis. Lockesdonkey (talk) 21:01, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Yangban today
In my visits to Korea, I've heard people refer to themselves (or family) as Yangban. Like the rest of this article, I could not give you a citation to this thought. But I wanted to bring it up so that the tags don't get too old and thereby deleted by some enterprising editor who thinks tags should have discussion backing them up (without which they get deleted.)--S. Rich (talk) 04:57, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Most modern Koreans with famous Yangban family name are fake descendants
The most common 3 Korean surnames, Kim, Lee and Park are famous Yangban families and ironically, most of them now are fake descendants. Lots of peasant people have forged their surname and these famous surnames were their main target. As the result, every single Korean has become Yangban blarblar. It is a great irony of Korean history. Fewer but not so famous Korean surnames are much more likely to be real descendants

What jobs did yangban have?
I dont see many information about yangban jobs, just names but not much information like what other jobs did they hold? And what did they did in those? 192.254.97.79 (talk) 04:20, 24 November 2022 (UTC)