Editing Concubinage (section)

=== Korea ===
[[Joseon]] monarchs had a harem which contained concubines of different ranks. [[Empress Myeongseong]] managed to have sons, preventing sons of concubines from getting power.

Children of concubines often had lower value in account of marriage. A daughter of concubine could not marry a wife-born son of the same class. For example, [[Jang Nok-su]] was a concubine-born daughter of a mayor, who was initially married to a slave-servant, and later became a high-ranking concubine of [[Yeonsangun]].

The [[Joseon]] dynasty established in 1392 debated whether the children of a free parent and a slave parent should be considered free or slave. The child of a scholar-official father and a slave-concubine mother was always free, although the child could not occupy government positions.{{sfn|Rodriguez|2011|p=392}}