Los yangban (hangul: 양반, hanja: 兩班?), formaban parte de la clase gobernante tradicional o nobles de Corea durante la dinastía Joseon, ellos pertenecían principalmente a la aristocracia y algunos de cuyos miembros eran terratenientes, ellos representaban el concepto del confucionismo coreano de oficiales educados, aunque eran básicamente administradores y burócratas que controlaron el sistema de burocracia agrícola tradicional hasta el final de la era Joseon en 1894. Entre los yangban, se incluyen especialmente hacia el final de la dinastia Joseon, a los miembros inmediatos de la familia y descendientes de los que ostentaban cargos oficiales.

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The yangban (Hangul: 양반: Hanja: 兩班) (Men of the sacred bone) were part of the traditional ruling class or gentry of dynastic Korea during the Joseon Dynasty. The yangban were mainly composed of civil servants and military officers. The yangban were landed or unlanded aristocracy who comprised the Korean Confucian idea of a "scholarly official". Basically, they were administrators and bureaucrats who oversaw ancient Korea's traditional agrarian bureaucracy until the Joseon Dynasty ended in 1894. In a broader sense, office holder's family and descendants as well as country families who claimed such descent were socially accepted as yangban.

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