The most ideal country in history, Joseon.

 I attached the title quite paradoxically. But as far as Sohae knows (I don't know much;;) I don't think that's wrong. This is because Joseon is the country that best reflects the governing ideology of Neo-Confucianism. At the time of the founding of Joseon, what do you think was the closest ruling ideology to today's democracy? I think it's the civil principle of Neo-Confucianism. Now Neo-Confucianism has become a relic of the old times, and the country lives only when Confucius dies, but at that time, I think it was a very groundbreaking human-centered system of thought. I don't think the humanistic renaissance they claim was reflected in a ruling position, although 1392, roughly a time when the Crusades broke out in Europe and the Renaissance sprouted. Criticism of the outdated system in which religion, kings and nobles dominate society, but it was not until the 18th century that it was actually established as a ruling ideology. In the end, the human-centered utopia was only ideal, and it took 500 years for it to be realized in a compromise with reality for more than 400 years to be extremely forced into reality. I don't know much about the Arab world, but it is questionable whether the Sultan Calif system of orthodoxy continued until the 19th century in the new headquarters society and the concept of people existed in this feudal society. I don't know this side, so I'll put it on hold. However, unlike the West, it is clear that even if the religion was different, it was treated as a person. In East Asia, there are Japanese and Janggues other than Korea, and Japan continues to accept Neo-Confucianism as a ruling ideology, but Janggues abolish the bureaucracy system that existed until the Song Dynasty and go to a powerful imperialist society. I think it's far from a Neo-Confucian ideal society. On the other hand, Joseon was established after careful preparation to the extent that I thought it was a planned country. Although it is a dynasty, in reality, it is clear that it was created with the aim of a state close to the cabinet responsibility system. In other words, the country where the king was upb would have been imagined in an Asian concept at the time, and everyone except slaves under the king was an equal country under Neo-Confucianism. Everyone in both was able to take the exam in the past, and looking at the past verifying governance, it is questionable which country other than Joseon existed in the 15th century. One of the most innovative things is that it cut off the political involvement of religion, which had never been separated from any country at the time. At that time, it can be thought of as a revolution. Asian countries that have been eradicated as much as Joseon over the Uijeongbu Government, a strong consensus body to prevent the king's will. In order for a king to carry out his will, it was a system that only had a high degree of experience to persuade other officials academically, so the king had to study to die to carry out his will. Of course, it is undeniable that the ideal is ideal, the reality is reality, and that it is a country created with the most ideal state system. During the reign of King Sejong, there was even a three-sim system. Japan was a time when Girisdegomen, a warrior, did not ask for faults even if he killed anyone. At that time, Director Myung Tae-jo captured all those who wrote letters containing the word "jung" to be sarcastic and slaughtered. Hae-hae who saw Heo Jun knows, but the state has a welfare system that even manages the sick and the poor. In the end, the Shinmungo system also comes from the ruling ideology of Neo-Confucianism of the people's heart, not from vain. It is difficult to list detailed examples due to the lack of Sohae-Hae-Hae-Hae, but it is clear that Joseon was a very ideal country at the time of its establishment, given the data I looked for when I was immersed in studying history. However, idealists can be the most water poloists. It is safe to say that the pride of having a successful system was the biggest cause of Joseon's disregard for reality and becoming a cultivist Neo-Confucianism supremacy. The kings were more likely to become teaching assistants to win the mouth wrestling with bureaucrats than to rule in reality. Or did he have the ability to sell this and that like Sejong? I think the party dispute is no different from the evils brought about by Neo-Confucian idealism. A typical example of what the Neo-Confucian governing system does and does not work is that only those who can study Neo-Confucianism internally become an equal society, and externally, Neo-Confucianism does not work for those who live in a society of little value. Power is not equal to both citizens, but monopolized by some who can study Neo-Confucianism, but returned to some of them divided into academic backgrounds. Everyone wants to study Neo-Confucianism without working, and the academic level is not objectively inferior, and the system is corrupt, so you buy government posts through all kinds of connections and corruption. Not to mention externally. The doctrine policy can be said to be a representative failure. Many people misunderstand that Sedo politics is not a system in which the bungdang is monopolized by one person due to intensifying party strife, but conversely, the king appointed representative scholars of the time as craftsmen to strengthen the royal authority among bungdang armed with a strong academic system. I think it's Hulbert. He came to Joseon as an American ambassador and talked about King Gojong. I still admire that there is a country in the world that can rule by virtue. There is also a story that King Gojong leaned against the United States until the end. On the other hand, the evaluation given by Western powers that invaded Japan at the time was that the invasion of Japan was likely to fail unless it was capable of removing hundreds of thousands of swordsmen. In conclusion, I don't think it's a matter of judging whether Joseon was a good country or a bad country. Joseon was never a prosperous, well-off, and strong country like the countries of Goryeo or the former Korean people. But I think less people who lived in Joseon would at least be happier than those who lived in other countries at that time. Bio thinks so that the system collapsed and worn out over 500 years, but no one complained about the dynasty even after 500 years, and that the ruling class ruled the least and most humanely during those 500 years.