In the drama "Goryeo(Korea)-Kihtan War," which is aired in Korea these days, there are many scenes where General Kang Gam-chan is criticized by his wife. This is unimaginable in the Confucian and unequal society of the Choseon Dynasty after Goryeo. However, that scene is thought to have properly investigated and reflected the social image of the Goryeo Dynasty, which was a matriarchal and Buddhist society.
The influence of the caste system of the Choseon Dynasty in Korea has been plaguing Korean society for quite some time. Perhaps without rapid improvement, Korea will go down the path of ruin. Especially, considering the birth of the Korean government (born in inner group of prosecutors), its operation process and the socially-issue corruption issue of the President's in-laws, Koreans' desire for an upward position seems to overwhelm their desire for conscience and morality. On the one hand, there are concerns that the nation's fate will wane like this.
On the one hand, when I look back on the past, when I have lived as a healthy worker in the lower social class for a long time and have been socially despised, I think that we should approach the feelings of people who are deviating in order to rise their status from a more social reform perspective. These days, such worries are quite necessary - I described it as the lower class, but it is actually the main part.
On the Korean Peninsula, ideology caused a civil war of the same kind and caused many hardships in the fate of the Korean people. Given that the ideological debate is also based on the Confucian caste system, which was an intolerable existence on the Korean Peninsula, it is believed that there will be no lasting prosperity on the Korean Peninsula without eliminating deep-rooted ills rather than deep-rooted trees.
Islam possesses another significant characteristic that has the potential to make it more suited for economic development than other cultures. Unlike Hinduism in South Asia or Confucianism in the East Asia, Muslim culture does not have a caste system, which restricts people's choice of occupation according to their birth and thereby limits social mobility. The complexity and the rigidity of Hindu caste system and its negative impacts on social mobility are well known. Although not as elaborate or as strong, the caste system in traditional Confucian societies was no joke either.
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No wonder that in early modern times, even when the traditional caste system had been formally abolished, Confucian countries still had difficulties in convincing talented youngsters to become engineers. These occupations became respectable only when economic development took off in the Confucian countries and made them lucrative and powerful.
- [ EDIBLE ECONOMICS ] BY HA-JOON CHANG -
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