KOREA 50 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Donghak Peasant Revolution, Travel Literature, Korean Art
Document Summary
Palace organization: square, but also built into the landscape - chinese high civilization & korean landscape. Organized administrative system (before: most administrative work was handled by middle man) King taejo (yi seong-gye) (1392 - 1398) Lands & taxes into hands of states. Duality of public element & private sphere. 1446, hunmin jeongeum, not fully appreciated till 500 years later; long reaching effect to present. Formal (but not absolute) separation of buddhist and shamanic religion from official functions while maintaining them as private religion. Great invasions: 1592 - 1598 (imjin war), 1627 (manchu), 1636 (manchu: described that korea doesn"t have clear sense of religion. Japan unified after 200 years of civil war
