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Pumasi

Pumasi (품앗이) is a combination of the words ‘pum’ means working and ‘asi’ means repay. Pumasi is agricultural cooperative custom by exchanging each other’s labor in Korea traditional agriculture society. Pumasi is based on trust and kindness to community.

Fundamental values
Pumasi is not calculating other’s labor ability unlike ‘Dure’or ‘saegyung’ of farmhand. Pumasi's premise is the high trust in each other. Instead of calculating the actual value of the individual work, it is based on consideration of what is best for the community. People provide labor for each other on the assumption that all human labor is comparable in principle. Labor of men and cattle, male and female, adults and children are equally regarded. The assumption is the fundamental value that can be established.

Prerequisite
Pumasi made based on the mental attitude that Such trust relationship is a prerequisite for the Pumasi. So Pumasi has no compulsion and purpose of mutual help. Pumasi is mainly done in the community called village. Pumasi is usually done in the following situations: farmers who grow the same crops, ② farmhouse with a similar acreage, ③ who knows the family history with neighboring farmers, ④ farmhouse between relatives. Thus, there is a tendency Pumasi is made between 'similar situation with each other’ because in this situation, formation of trust relationship that prerequisite for the Pumasi is easy. On the assumption that in return for the ‘pum’, but in many cases, don’t need to pay off necessarily.

Organization
Pumasi was organized regardless of time, seasons, and the kind of work when a labor shortage in farmhouse. This mainly consisted of a combination of tenant farmer and farmhand. Pumasi is sometimes consisting of only women but also men.

Utilization
Pumasi is a collaborative working that consisting in the whole process of farming throughout the year. It had a very important role in not only rice paddy farming, but also in most of the fields farming. Pumasi also includes work of women that prepare food for big events or make clothes for sale.

Comparasion with dure
Typical agricultural cooperative custom of traditional Korea society, there are Dure and Pumasi. Dure is used for the busiest time (rice planting time) in agriculture. Dure limited to adult men who have labor, and they mandatory took part. Dure is consists of every member of village. On the other hand, Pumasi consists of 3-6 people in village with a personal acquaintance. Pumasi is used for all type of work required by the farmers. And Pumasi don’t have any limit when organized.

Histoy
Pumasi is the oldest collective laboring custom in Korea. Occurred in the early class society with Monogamous family became the economic unit of society. Because the monogamous family is the basic unit of Pumasi that ask borrows the labor of other family members in order to solve the shortage of labor in the family.

Pumasi of today
Throughout the Korea's industrialization, agricultural population was less generalized wage labor. Until recently, It organization some in rural, but that aspect has changed a lot. Because of modernization in rural communities, such as the spread of chemical and mechanic Farming Products, the idea that everything can change cash is emerging. So, equality for workers that basis of Pumasi is vanish and labor value of each workers is under the reasonable calculating. However, we can still find the remnants of Pumasi in custom that helping each other when weddings or funerals.