AS AM 100DD Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Dangun, Sinicization, Yens
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Bruce cummings - korea"s place in the sun: chapter. Korea was never sinicized (made chinese in character or form) i. e. koreans made confucius their own. Disdain for material things, commerce, and the remaking of nature. Though contemporary koreans may deny it, south korea emphasizes many of the confucian aspects listed above. Koreans think of the heart, not the head, as seat of thought. The mind-heart is in touch with its natural environment. Korea is a mountainous peninsula with china to the west, japan to the east, and other influences in the north. In the late 1500s, japan exercised a strong influence in korea, but people and civilizations on the contiguous asian continent were far more important to. Koreans were formed from the back-and-forth migrations between korea and northeastern china and siberia. The korean nation (today"s north and south) began in the third millennium b. c. when king tan"gun founded old chos n (which south koreans call han"guk)
