The gwageo (Korean: 과거) or kwagŏ were the national civil service examinations under the Goryeo (918–1392) and Joseon (1392–1897) periods of Korea. Typically...

service examinations called Gwageo under the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties. Based on the examinations of imperial China, the gwageo first arose in Unified Silla...

most students was successful passage of the state examinations, known as gwageo. Educational institutions were extremely widespread in the country, and...

the Goryeo Dynasty. The clans produced many individuals who passed the gwageo, and 3 Queen Consorts during the Joseon Dynasty, Queen Sunwon, Queen Hyohyeon...

a series of gwageo exams (one had to pass the "lesser gwageo" exam (소과) in both of two stages in order to qualify for the greater gwageo exam, which again...

Another major factor in the adoption of hanmun was the adoption of the gwageo, copied from the Chinese imperial examination, open to all freeborn men...

black gat (흑립; 黑笠; heungnip) was restricted to men who had passed the gwageo, or civil service examinations. In narrow definition, the term gat refers...

Four Books and Five Classics, Confucian works used in the examinations Gwageo, Korean national examination system begun in Unified Silla, expanded in...

technically supposed to receive equal access to education and the taking of the gwageo (civil service examinations), the nobility used their influence to place...

the disciplines. Bureaucrats of Hyeminseo were also appointed through the gwageo recruitment examination. Hyeminseo aimed to benefit the people but its coverage...