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๐Ÿ’ Why was incest banned in Korea? Interesting stories from history๐Ÿ’ ๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ, ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์™œ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋์„๊นŒ? ์—ญ์‚ฌ ์† ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋“ค

 

๐Ÿ” 1. Why Did Incestuous Marriages Exist in Korean History?

Today, the idea of marrying a close relative is taboo in Korea. But historically, it was surprisingly commonโ€”especially among royalty and aristocrats.

Why?
It all came down to power and wealth preservation.

Marrying within the family helped prevent outsiders from gaining control over family assets or political influence.


๐Ÿฐ 2. Incest and the Bone Rank System of the Silla Dynasty

The Silla Dynasty had a unique class system called the โ€œBone Rankโ€ (๊ณจํ’ˆ์ œ), which played a key role in encouraging intra-family marriages.

Under this rigid system, marrying someone of lower status meant the children would inherit the lower rank.

To maintain social standing, aristocrats often married within their own bone rankโ€”even if that meant marrying a relative.

A famous example: General Kim Yushin married his own niece (his sisterโ€™s daughter). Even King Jinheungโ€™s son married his aunt!
For royals and nobles, such marriages were often the norm.


๐Ÿ“œ 3. The Goryeo Dynasty's Ban on Incestuous Marriages

In early Goryeo, incestuous marriages were still used as a political strategy to consolidate royal power and control the regional aristocrats.

But when the nobility gained too much power, the court tried to curb their influence by encouraging internal marriages.

Eventually, King Munjong (11th king of Goryeo) implemented a law banning incestuous unions.

However, this law was poorly enforced.
Famous example? The ambitious nobleman Yi Ja-gyeom married off his daughters to both the king and his son, even leading a rebellion to boost his power.

By late Goryeo, Neo-Confucian ideology strongly condemned incest, leading to the introduction of same-surname marriage bans.


๐Ÿ’” 4. Joseonโ€™s Same-Surname Marriage Ban and Modern Reforms

The โ€œsame-surname same-origin banโ€ (๋™์„ฑ๋™๋ณธ ๊ธˆํ˜ผ) took root in the Joseon Dynasty and was eventually codified into modern Korean law.

But in 1977, a tragic incident occurred:
A couple in their 20s, who shared the same surname and origin, took their own lives because they were legally barred from marrying.

This led to public outcry that the law was outdated and overly restrictive.

In 1997, the law was finally abolished.
Today, Korean law bans marriage only within eight degrees of kinship, regardless of surname.


๐ŸŒ 5. Incest in Global History โ€” and Its Consequences

Incestuous marriage isn't unique to Korea; many cultures practiced it, often for power and purity of bloodlines.

๐Ÿ“Œ Egyptian Pharaohs:
Claiming to be gods, they married siblings to maintain divine status. Even Cleopatra married her brother.

๐Ÿ“Œ The Habsburg Dynasty:
This European royal family repeatedly married within close kin to preserve their lineageโ€”resulting in severe genetic disorders, high infant mortality (29%), and conditions like jaw deformities.

๐Ÿ“Œ Charles Darwin:
Yes, even the father of evolution married his cousin. He later worried that their childrenโ€™s health problems were due to inbreeding. Three of his ten children died young.


๐Ÿ’ก 6. A Psychological Reason to Avoid Incest: The Westermarck Effect

Hereโ€™s where it gets fascinating: psychology offers an explanation for our natural aversion to incest.

Itโ€™s called the Westermarck Effect.

This theory suggests that people who grow up together from a young age develop a natural aversion to sexual attraction toward one anotherโ€”making romantic relationships unlikely, even among non-relatives like adopted siblings or childhood friends.

Even in countries where cousin marriage is legal, cases of marrying a cousin one grew up with are rare.


#HistoryOfIncest #SillaDynasty #GoryeoPolitics #JoseonConfucianLaws #WestermarckEffect #StrangeButTrueHistory #KnowledgeCafeBlog

1๏ธโƒฃ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์—ญ์‚ฌ ์† ๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ, ์™œ ์กด์žฌํ–ˆ์„๊นŒ?

๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ(๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์นœ์กฑ๋ผ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ)์€ ํ˜„๋Œ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ƒ์ƒํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์™•์กฑ๊ณผ ๊ท€์กฑ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋ณดํŽธ์ ์ธ ์ผ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ์ด ์„ฑํ–‰ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์ผ๊นŒ์š”?

  • ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์žฌ์‚ฐ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ด์œ ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์™ธ๋ถ€์ธ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ์‚ฐ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ์ด ๋ถ„์‚ฐ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ง‰๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์นœ์กฑ ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์„ ์„ ํƒํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ .


2๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฐ ์‹ ๋ผ ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ๊ณจํ’ˆ์ œ์™€ ๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„

ํŠนํžˆ ์‹ ๋ผ ์‹œ๋Œ€์—๋Š” ๊ณจํ’ˆ์ œ๋ผ๋Š” ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์‹ ๋ถ„ ์ œ๋„๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ์ด ๋”์šฑ ๋‘๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๊ณจํ’ˆ์ œ๋Š” ํƒœ์–ด๋‚  ๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹ ๋ถ„์ด ์ •ํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ์ œ๋„๋กœ, ๋‚ฎ์€ ์‹ ๋ถ„๊ณผ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ•˜๋ฉด ์ž์‹์˜ ์‹ ๋ถ„์ด ๋‚ฎ์•„์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๊ท€์กฑ๋“ค์€ ์‹ ๋ถ„ ์œ ์ง€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณจํ’ˆ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋Š” ๊น€์œ ์‹ ๊ณผ ๊น€์ถ˜์ถ”์˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๊น€์œ ์‹  ์žฅ๊ตฐ์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์—ฌ๋™์ƒ์˜ ๋”ธ(์กฐ์นด)๊ณผ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์‹ ๋ถ„์„ ์ง€์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์‹ ๋ผ ์™•์‹ค์—์„œ๋„ ์ง„ํฅ์™•์˜ ์•„๋“ค์ด ๊ณ ๋ชจ์™€ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿ“œ ๊ณ ๋ ค ์‹œ๋Œ€์—๋Š” ์™œ ๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ์„ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ–ˆ์„๊นŒ?

๊ณ ๋ ค ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜์—๋„ ๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ์€ ์™•๊ถŒ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์™•์‹ค์€ ์ง€๋ฐฉ ํ˜ธ์กฑ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ˜ธ์กฑ๋“ค์˜ ํž˜์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•ด์ง€์ž, ์™•์‹ค์€ ๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์™ธ๋ถ€ ์„ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ œํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณ ๋ ค ๋ฌธ์ข…(11๋Œ€ ์™•) ๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋Š” ๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ์„ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฒ•์ด ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด ๋ฒ•์€ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž˜ ์ง€์ผœ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ์˜ˆ๋กœ ์ด์ž๊ฒธ์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋”ธ๋“ค์„ ์™•๊ณผ ๊ทธ ์•„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณ„์† ์‹œ์ง‘๋ณด๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ์„ ์žก๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ฐ˜๋ž€๊นŒ์ง€ ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ณ ๋ ค ํ›„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์„ฑ๋ฆฌํ•™(์œ ๊ต ์œค๋ฆฌ)์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋น„ํŒ์ด ์ƒ๊ฒผ๊ณ , ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ฐ™์€ ์„ฑ์”จ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” '๋™์„ฑํ˜ผ ๊ธˆ์ง€'๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋…์ด ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

4๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿ’” ์กฐ์„  ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ '๋™์„ฑ๋™๋ณธ ๊ธˆํ˜ผ'๊ณผ ํ˜„๋Œ€์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”

์กฐ์„  ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ถ€ํ„ฐ '๋™์„ฑ๋™๋ณธ ๊ธˆํ˜ผ(๊ฐ™์€ ์„ฑ์”จ์ด๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ณธ๊ด€๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ ๊ธˆ์ง€)'์ด ๊ตณ์–ด์กŒ๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์˜ ๋ฏผ๋ฒ•์—๋„ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ 1977๋…„, ๊ฐ™์€ ์„ฑ์”จ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ 20๋Œ€ ์—ฐ์ธ์ด ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์–ด ํˆฌ์‹ ์ž์‚ดํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€ ์‚ฌํšŒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํฐ ๋…ผ๋ž€์„ ์ผ์œผ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์‚ฌํšŒ๋Š” ์ด ๋ฒ•์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ณผ๋„ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ˜„์‹ค๊ณผ ๋งž์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋น„ํŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ 1997๋…„, ๋™์„ฑ๋™๋ณธ ๊ธˆํ˜ผ๋ฒ•์€ ํ์ง€๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” ์„ฑ์”จ์™€ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—†์ด 8์ดŒ ์ด๋‚ด์˜ ์นœ์กฑ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ๋งŒ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

5๏ธโƒฃ ๐ŸŒ ํ•ด์™ธ ์—ญ์‚ฌ ์† ๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ ์‚ฌ๋ก€์™€ ๋ถ€์ž‘์šฉ

๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํ•ด์™ธ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์—์„œ๋„ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์ด์ง‘ํŠธ ํŒŒ๋ผ์˜ค

  • ๊ณ ๋Œ€ ์ด์ง‘ํŠธ์˜ ํŒŒ๋ผ์˜ค๋Š” '์‹ ์˜ ์ž์†'์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ ํ‰๋ฏผ๊ณผ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ํด๋ ˆ์˜คํŒŒํŠธ๋ผ๋„ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์นœ๋™์ƒ๊ณผ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ํ•ฉ์Šค๋ถ€๋ฅดํฌ ์™•๊ฐ€

  • ํ•ฉ์Šค๋ถ€๋ฅดํฌ ์™•๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ˜ˆํ†ต ์ˆœ์ˆ˜์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ์„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์นœ์กฑ ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ์œ ์ „์  ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์œ ์•„ ์‚ฌ๋ง๋ฅ ์ด 29%, ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด ์‚ฌ๋ง๋ฅ ์€ 50%์— ๋‹ฌํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ฃผ๊ฑฑํ„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ถ€์ •๊ตํ•ฉ ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์žฅ์• ๋ฅผ ๊ฒช์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์ฐฐ์Šค ๋‹ค์œˆ์˜ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ

  • ์ง„ํ™”๋ก ์„ ์ฐฝ์‹œํ•œ ์ฐฐ์Šค ๋‹ค์œˆ ์—ญ์‹œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ดŒ๊ณผ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž๋…€๋“ค์ด ์œ ์ „์  ์งˆ๋ณ‘์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ํ†ต๋ฐ›์ž ๋งค์šฐ ํ›„ํšŒํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ž๋…€ ์ค‘ 3๋ช…์ด 10์„ธ ์ด์ „์— ์‚ฌ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


6๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿ’ก ๊ทผ์นœํ˜ผ์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ์ด์œ : ์›จ์Šคํ„ฐ๋งˆํฌ ํšจ๊ณผ

ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌํ•™ ์ด๋ก ๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฐ”๋กœ ์›จ์Šคํ„ฐ๋งˆํฌ ํšจ๊ณผ(Westermarck effect)์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ž๋ž€ ๋‚จ๋…€๊ฐ€ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์  ๋งค๋ ฅ์„ ๋А๋ผ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ณธ๋Šฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€๊ฐ์„ ๋А๋ผ๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ด๋ก ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ•ด์™ธ์—์„œ๋„ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์—์„œ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ดŒ ๊ฐ„ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์ด ๋ฒ•์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ—ˆ์šฉ๋˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์–ด๋ฆด ๋•Œ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ž๋ž€ ์‚ฌ์ดŒ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋Š” ๋“œ๋ฌผ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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