Ko Hee-tak: The Myth and Paradox of Silhak

This book is one of my oldest questions: Why could our country not have been able to modernize a structure variable by what we call the Western Impart in the late 19th century, unlike Japan? I don't know if it ever started. Now, I don't know if that is such a urgent or significant question, but for those who have experienced the wars of speech and Japanese hominids, liberation and 6/25, dictatorship and high economic growth, it was one of the most natural and serious questions of our generation, which has been the realization of the world power of Sony and Panasonic in the 1980s. The focus of my research in the history of Japan, the history and history of the Tokyo era, on the change in political and social consciousness was another matter of doubt. Although it was limited in terms of ‘change of consciousness,’ I wanted to explore from my own perspective how Japan’s ‘success ’ was possible. The success of Japan in the late 19th century was because of the idea that the ‘ change of consciousness ’ that developed in the old Tokugawa era was possible because of its own quagmire, or could it have been a flower or fruit grown on the soil. Apart from the results of the search, I had a view that the Confucian or Confucian school could have functioned as a friendly thinker for ‘near-communism’ and was broadened to a horizon that I couldn't think of before.

Korean title: 실학의 신화와 역설

Korean author: 고희탁

Korean publisher: 공감의힘

ISBN-13: 9791169740272