On the base of Today's Korean consciousness and life, are harmonized and operated Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianism and European idea. The author believes in that such an harmony remains ostensibly in civilian life-customs and so tries to e...
On the base of Today's Korean consciousness and life, are harmonized and operated Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianism and European idea. The author believes in that such an harmony remains ostensibly in civilian life-customs and so tries to excavate and study Korean peace-loving idea in view of above propositions.
Traditional state-idea of Korea is "The Universal Interest of Human beings" stemed from the Dahn Goon (legendary founder of Korea) Mythology. "The Universal Interest of Human beings" has been created and developed today's Korean Idea with fusing our people's peculiar faith and above four foreign ideas, precipitated into the village-community and formed a sort of peace idea.
Korean people has almost never invaded first foreign countries, loving their homeland, enjoining reality.
The pacific idea originally and essentially was we can say, sprouted, from "The Universal Interest" of founding idea of nation and our people's peculiar peace-loving ideal. Those two ideas has succeeded from generation to generation, blossomed out into peaceful independence movement of 1910 and become the base of our present foreign-policy pursuing peace. Thus, the Republic of Korea really preserves and maintains national orthodoxy in view of succeeding above two ideas.
The author studied Taboo idea as one character in civilian faith of life The Koreans have been living in net of Taboo whose core is the avoiding killing wounding. During the Taboo such as before and after mourning rite, religious rites or even in daily life, the Koreans have never killed or wounded any living creatures, even avoided looking such scenes.
This pacifistic Tabooism flows into the bottom of the Koreans.
For the Koreans "good" means non-violence, non-attack and non-warlike in view of good-and-evil.
We may see above peace-loving examples in the Koreans' view of quarrel and scuffle. They are reluctant to choose weaker as a match and have idea of "being defeated is defeating" in many cases. This says that the Koreans love concession and avoid fighting, and winning in appearance is actually defeated in some cases.