Hogye Seowon, one of the Andong's representative Confucian academies, served as the center of the activities of Confucian scholars of the Yeongnam in response to changes in domestic and international circumstances in the late 19th century. After Ki...
Hogye Seowon, one of the Andong's representative Confucian academies, served as the center of the activities of Confucian scholars of the Yeongnam in response to changes in domestic and international circumstances in the late 19th century. After Kim Seong-il(⾦誠一), the writers who inherited the academic line that led to Lee Sang-jeong(李象靖) and Ryu Chi-myeong(柳致明) established their identity based on the academic mission and superiority of continuing the Toegye academic line. They strengthened their solidarity by leading lectures centered on Hogye Seowon and expanded their personal network. Based on this, in the late 19th century, a campaign against Seowon demolition was launched to protect Neo-Confucianism in response to the domestic crisis of the Seowon demolition, the spread of Catholicism, and an armed conflict with foreign powers. Furthermore, it led an organized and united movement called Cheoksa(斥邪) Maninso(萬人疏) against the situation in which trade with Japan and the West became a reality and threatened Christianity. When the Ordinance Prohibiting Topknots was issued in 1895, Confucian scholars of the Yeongnam organized and led the righteous army and expressed their theory of Cheoksa as an active resistance movement using force. Hogye Seowon Confucian Academy was at the center of all these processes. Hogye Seowon Confucian Academy was an academic pride to them and became a human and material basis.
In the late 19th century, Hogye Seowon Confucian Academy could not resist the ordeal of demolition. However, the scholarship and spirit that continued through Hogye Seowon still had a great influence on Yeongnam Confucian scholars and served as a stepping stone for the independence movement in the 20th century.