Confucius involvement in South Korea Culture

The society advancement is a common goal of our human kind and no matter what social background a nation come from, the conflict between tradition and modern society always exist to some degree. Korea, a nation with a complex history certainly magnified the difference, and their co-existence is worthy of our effort to find out.

Modern society is at a pluralistic and consistent social and historical development stage, at the same time, because it has a profound cultural spirit of the load and the cultural spirit of the pronoun. In the pre-Qin Confucius as the representative of Confucian thought. In two thousand years of cultural philosophy and the generation and spread of China to East Asia, South Asia, a vast area, forming a unique regional culture, in which East Asia to South Korea by the influence of Confucianism being the deepest, Confucianism became the mainstream of traditional culture of the Korean Peninsula.

In contemporary society, the Korean Peninsula broke into two pieces in 1945, which formed very different social systems and ideologies at both ends. In the northern part of North Korea, Confucianism was referred to as the old ideological and cultural focus on behalf of more criticism, which is similar to China's 50's to 70's. This is one aspect of the problem. On the other hand, the Confucian culture has infiltrated every corner of the material life and spiritual life of the society. In the southern half of South Korea, Confucianism philosophy and culture in the spiritual and cultural life of a society occupies a dominant position, especially from the 1970s economic rapid rise since, Confucianism is more prosperous, become the spirit cultural hotbed of the growth、 of the Korean economy. South Korea is the philosophical and cultural foundation of the so-called "Han river miracle" that the Confucian culture is the mainstream of traditional practice in East Asia. In recent years, with the further development of the economy, with the reform and the opening up of the world, South Korea reflects Confucianism in order to construct the modern trend of thought that they the culture would follow the traditional Confucius ideology while the economy, however, would follow the advanced capitalism. This contradictive way to development the modern society has shaped the cultural status of South Korean.