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Gyeonggi Kamyoung(Supreme Local Government Office) was an administrativeoffice covering Gyeonggi region. However, it was located in the outside ofDoneumoon in Hanseongbu. Why was it located in Hanseongbu? How was itmaintained? What was the issues about the location of the office? This study coversthose issues. It had nothing to do with just the matter of location but the role ofGyeonggi, which was to protect and to support Hanseongbu. The environment ofpositioning of Gyeonggi Kamyoung was analyzed according to respective kings’sregime with the transitions of politics, administration, and national defence. And thespace arrangement and organization of Gyeonggi Kamyoung was referred by thepainting resource, 「Gyeonggi Kamyoung Do」. Though it is hard to understand from the point of the present, the relation betweenHanseongbu and Gyeonggi can be understood by studying physical elements such asthe location situation of Gyeonggi Kamyoung and debates on this issue in thegovernment in late Joseon Dynasty.