Following these setbacks, the Sarim faction withdrew to rural provinces where they maintained power base and ideological continuity through Seowon and Hyang'yak (a system of social contract that gave local autonomy to villages).
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Village Seowon, which combined the functions of Confucian shrines with educational institutions, often reflected the factional alignment of the local elite.
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