| Dure | |
| Hangul | 두레 |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization | dure |
| McCune–Reischauer | ture |
The dure (Korean: 두레) was a traditional system of collective labor within small farming communities in Korea. Farmers worked on each other's farms in order to increase total efficiency.[1][2] Its practice differed by region, and there were numerous terms for and types of dure, including nongsa (농사), nonggye (농계), nongcheong (농청), nongak (농악), nonggi (농기), mokcheong (목청), gyaksa (갹사), dongne nonmegi (동네논매기), gilssam (길쌈), dolgae gieum (돌개기음).[3][4]
Dure is basically a social system that uses agricultural labor intensively and intensively at limited times.[5] The dure is a representative of the material culture that has been jointly farming, and was the chief of the nation's peasant lifestyle. Most of the rice farming areas had dure, because they developed with rice farming.[6] And in the 17th-18th century, the development of the Yiang method resulted in a shortage of agricultural labor, which became a factor in the development of the dure.[5]
A subcategory of dure is kilssam dure. While dure are organizations of men involved in rice farming, such as planting and rice paddies, kilssam dure are organizations of women in charge of domestic labor and field farming.[7]