The Origins of the Choson DynastyScholars have long held that Korea's Choson dynasty (1392 1910) was established by a new socioeconomic class of scholar officials of local landlord origins who overthrew the capital based aristocracy of the Koryo dynasty (918 1392). The Origins of the Choson Dynasty refutes that view, showing that a key feature of the dynastic transition was continuity in the structure and composition of the central ruling class and arguing that the main force behind