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Article: Confucianism: A Social Virus in the Way of Progress.
- Article from:
- Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
- Article date:
- June 13, 1999
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In the past 90 years, Korea has lost its sovereignty, fallen victim to colonialism for 35 years and suffered a devastating civil war in 1950-53. It is now engulfed in an economic crisis that at one point brought the entire nation to its knees.
A number of answers can be given that address these incidents from social, economic and geopolitical perspectives. However, when viewed from a domestic perspective says one outspoken critic, there is a common factor that never fails to show itself: Confucianism.
``The evils of Confucianism are always at work in the center of all these watershed incidents that have drawn back Korea's development process,'' said ...