ABSTRACT
T'aejong and Sejo in their usurpations and another 70 had been added to their number for helping S ngjong's grandmother to bring him to the throne. Their virtual monopoly of the higher offices of state came under the critical gaze of Kim Chong-jik and the Mountain Scholars whom S ngjong had appointed to the Censorates and his sympathy for their views preserved a balance of power. After his death, however, at the age of 40 in 1494, he was succeeded by his 19year-old elder son Y nsan'gun, who seems to have had more taste for wine, women and song than for scholarly lectures or puritanical censors, and a great outcry that they made over the use of Buddhist burial rites after the death of the dowager Queen further increased his dislike of them.
