In this article I try to explain the government principles of the Dogam(都監) from the beginning of early Choson dynasty to its abolition. The historic sources used in the first paragraph of the 2nd part are exclusively from early Choson and comprise in total 132 documents, as for the sources from later periods when the Dogam ceased to exist I analyst 126 individual documents. In the 3rd part as for the sources concerning the fixed establishment of the Dogam I analyzed 6 documents. And lastly I analyzed with the same method of part 2 80 individual documents from the 16th century.
Basing my analysis on the results of the 4th part, I examined the fact that the fixed, established Dogam vanished, the fact that they were converted in to provisorily existing entities and what that implies. The Dogam institution existed from the early Koryo Dynasty and experienced a noticeable sophistication towards the end of Koryo dynasty. The already existing government fabric was eroded by the role of the Dogam subsequently causing turmoil within the government structure. The late Koryo reformers Jojun(趙浚) and JeongDojeon(鄭道傳) understood the gravity of the situation and tried to tackle it. With the rise of the new Dynasty established by LeeSeonggye(李成桂) after the reign of king Gongyang(恭讓王) the institution of the Dogam was reformed. In the year 1392 after the formation of the new government most of the flaws troubling the Dogam system had been fixed. But not all Dogam task forces had been installed with a temporal intention. Because of the following 3 major reasons the installation of the Dogam institution has to be continued. First the government under the reign of king Taejo(太祖) recycled basically the Koryo government system. Second, since the offices continued their work it was reasonable to continue also the Dogam system. Third, in case of an work overload the establishment of a Dogam was the only possibility to process unprocessed work. But since the temporarily employed officials acted very self confidently the interruption of the employment of the Dogam was only a matter of time that could expected.
At that time most of the government officials agreed with the temporal establishment if the Dogam task forces. By the time of the reign of King Sejo(世祖) the Dogam as a common institution vanished and only it’s temporal character remained . Thus the modification of this system has far reaching implications on the establishment of the central government based on the Kyeonggugdaejeon(經國大典) law code. On the one hand the Dogam contributed to the effectiveness of the established government system but on the other hand if established for a long period of time the Dogam could erode and threaten the establishment. These kind abuses of the system had a major impact on the Choson government and therefore reassuring the temporal establishment of the Dogam has to be regarded as very meaningful.