South Korea: The Confucian ideal

The Asia Pages writes a long analysis of the usefulness of Confucian values in modern East Asian societies, noting strong biases in favor of males and older people, and wondering what the sage would have said about China's current government. “An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger,” perhaps?

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