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Sachuldo and the Four Ga — A Kingdom Governed by Divided Power

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  1. Buyeo was a decentralised kingdom in which the king directly ruled only the centre, while Maga, Uga, Jeoga and Guga governed the other four directions, known as Sachuldo.
  2. The Samgukji, in the Dongyi chapter of the Records of the Three Kingdoms (Wei), states that great ga ruled several thousand households and lesser ga several hundred, and that the king was held responsible for famine.
  3. Scholars are divided: the prevailing view holds that royal authority was weak, while a reinterpretation argues it was strengthening in the 3rd century and that the system was simply an ancient custom.

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Sachuldo and the Four Ga — A Kingdom Governed by Divided Power

Official translation → Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): [역사는 살아있다 – 부여·삼한 편] 제2화: 사출도(四出道)와 네 명의 가(加) – 분권으로 다스린 나라

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