koreanhistory1-6, Exercise 2: One of Sejong's projects (a sample; yours will differ)

Model answer (tax reform):

1. [Source] Sejong's public survey of over 170,000 people began in 1430; the debate lasted 17 years and the new system was completed in 1444, cutting the land tax from 10% to 5% of the harvest.
2. [Source] The article says historians argue income did not fall because of land confiscated from Buddhist temples and higher productivity; the 1424 coin did not replace barter.
3. [Not in the article] How much the poorest households gained or how the survey was conducted; the article gives no figures beyond those above. [My own reading: a tax decided after a vote-like survey looks unusually consultative for the period, but the article does not say how the responses were weighed.]