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Ssang Gi
Ssang Gi was a Chinese official of the Later Zhou dynasty who came to Korea with an embassy in 956 and stayed in the service of King Gwangjong of Goryeo. On his advice Goryeo introduced civil service examinations on the Chinese model in 958, and he supervised the first of them. The examinations became a lasting basis of Korean bureaucracy.
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