Shortly after the withdrawal of the Mongols and Kory 's support of the Ming, the latter moved to establish a commandery on Kory soil. Korean armies set out to attack, but one commander, Yi Snggye (1339–98), refused to go along and took control of the government himself. The next year he placed a Kory king on the throne and began wide-ranging land reform, supported by the rising scholar-official class. Land reform entailed a thorough cadastral survey (1390); all land registers were abolished, and all lands reverted to the state. Two years later, Kory fell, to be replaced when Yi Snggye assumed the throne of the Yi dynasty. | 1 |
