▣ Overview
The number of Korean emigration doubled in 1980s and a lot of them settled in USA. Even though they started to live in the US, the Korean atmosphere affected by Confucianism still existed within the household. Korean housewives living in the US had been watching Korean soap opera still, gathering at home, and renting out the video tape from the shop. These wives' soap opera viewing
life
Goals
Kyungsechiyong(경세치용): learning provides substantive benefits
Leeyonghusaeng(이용후생): improve nation’s life
Silsagusi(실사구시): attitude which search for profound truth
Institution of higher education
Moonmyo(문묘) : place to perform seokjeonje(석전제)
Seokjeonje(석전제) : to perform the semiannual services in honor of Confucius
2.Chastity Ideology-Hymen Worship
순결 이데올로기 - 처녀막 숭배
Many men are still dreaming to marry a virgin and thinks she must be innocent. In addition, women have conservative thought about their chastity, premarital sexual experience, recognition is internalized that the first night should be no sexual experience.
what is chastity? Today, chastity for the concept of women as
of the relationship of sovereign and subject was from father and son relationship. To maintain large family, it emphasized community spirit which stabilized the fundamentals of the idea. Country also realized the importance and encouraged the spirit. Political ideology of Confucianism doesn’t depend on power, but on public sentiment and reformation of the public through virtue. This is called
-Why should we care about it?
The huge gap between social classes is always an important matter that all government should consider, because it is one of the reason that makes society inequal regardless of power or wealth of country. Besides, in these days, this gap become greater due to neo-liberalism, base ideology of economy. To reduce this gap, it would be helpful to us to know the ch