Where can the South Koreans go?

 

 

 What is the future of South Korea?

The future of South Korea has already been decided.  During the reign of King Sejong the Great five hundred years ago, the fate of Korea had been fixed.

 South Korea's corruption problem has never been solved since World War II.  Almost every government has been corrupted.

 Recently, the BBC quoted Western scholars as saying that this is because South Korea advocates Confucianism, and the Confucian spirit pays attention to repaying favors. If you receive favors, you have to repay them.

It is not necessarily true.

 The most important aspect of the Confucian spirit is to construct society into a small family circle.  Man is not an individual, but a man in a relationship.  It's all about relationships.

 Not all people in politics are greedy, but they must live in relationships.  There are bosses and authorities on the top, and there are a lot of sons, daughter-in-laws and children on the bottom.  To act as a human being, you have to take care of everything.  At the places where they are inserted are all blood-related-relatives.  And that is the only governing  wisdom one have to obey.

 It is not only cause of corruption, but also makes people look only at the near front and cannot see around with a fair heart.

  In a narrow-minded mind, there will naturally be timid and afraid of getting into trouble, afraid of offending others, a passive tolerance approach is the best choice. It is the fatal result of Confucianism. Everone is hoping to get rich by chance.  It is the opposite expansion of inferiority complex. If someone disrespects him a little, he will get mad quickly.

 Confucianism in South Korea is even worse than that in Mainland or Taiwan. It can be regarded as more pure Confucianism in South Korea. While Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan are mixed with a lot of other factors, and Confucianism may not have such purity there.  The common people in South Korea are polite and righteous, and there are very few street crimes.  The only problem is that the popular culture has mixed with the pornographic culture in recent years. Young people likes external beauty. Men are slender and weak, while women have red lips, white faces and dyed hair. The spirit of exploration and truth pursuit is very rare in popular culture.

 The direction of Korea today was determined by King Sejong the Great 500 years ago.   To day, Koreans still like him very much.

 King Sejong the Great is a master of philology.  He promulgated the Hangeul alphabet, which replaced Chinese characters.   This was a normal political behavior, and it was completely reasonable for him  to distance himself from China's influence.

 But he never imagined that the use of phonetic characters in this way would change a visual-based text into an auditory-based one.  The format in using the brain  cancels the original right-brain tendency and turns it into a simple digital left-brain function.  The ability of comprehensive thinking and creative thinking are also reduced. 

 In this regard, Korean has gone further than Japanese.  Japanese had also restored letters to Chinese characters, or mix Chinese characters and letters.  But Korean was completed in all alphabets.  Ordinary people cannot find out what the original square characters are.

 The Japanese have the same textual orientation as the Koreans, but the philosophical orientation is opposite.  South Korea appreciates Confucianism's tolerance and obedience to authority very much, but the Japanese are disgusted with the spirit of corrupted Confucianism and replace it with the spirit of the Samurai.  So the Japanese had fallen into another path and they would look down on the Koreans.

Fate of the Korean people was determined five hundred years ago.

 On the one hand, the sharp weapon of right brain thinking is canceled, and on the other hand, there are too many thoughts of humility and obedience to authority in the mind.  Coupled with the immersion of Western popular culture, the consequences are completely predictable.  

One vulgar song  with Jiangnan style of dancing won the first place in the internet world years ago, with more than one billion hits, it was said.  The Korean ruling and even opposition parties were extremely happy in a mood of ecstasy, thinking it was the glory of the country.

 Honoring shame is a great warning sign.  But Koreans themselves may not know the real result is waiting ahead.

And soon the political power has changed.  United States had taken over.

Where can the South Koreans go?

The world is watching.

" .......a passive tolerance approach is the best choice, it is Confucianism."

(First printed  11/26/2016)