Confucianism was the foundation of the Joseon Dynasty for 500 years. It influenced the politics, society, ideology, religion and it was absolute for the ruling class and the intellectual because of the characteristics of the dynasty. The Japanese impe...
Confucianism was the foundation of the Joseon Dynasty for 500 years. It influenced the politics, society, ideology, religion and it was absolute for the ruling class and the intellectual because of the characteristics of the dynasty. The Japanese imperialism understood the status of Confucianism in Korea and tried to reinforce the colonial rule system before and after Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910.
The prominent feature of the Japanese imperialism policy is to fund pro - Japanese Confucian scholars to organize pro - Japanese Confucian scholars organizations and to form a nationwide network And attempted to expand the Japanese colonial policy nationwide. DaedongHakhoe[大東學會] was an organization that Japan supported and attentioned, the level of funding was similar to that of Iljinhoe[一進會].
After the Meiji government emerged, Japan used Confucianism to form a nation that loyal to the imperial family and nation. To do this, Japan promoted Chinese classics. Some of Korean Confucian scholars were absorbed in the use of Confucianism and the development of Chinese classics in Japan.
The heungaheu[興亞會], a private organization in Japan, preached the Asian solidarity that Korea, China and Japan should unite in order to confront the West, and it was used as a logic to justify Japanese invasion of some of the Confucians in Korea.
Ogaki Takeo lamented the fact that there is no leader who unifies anti-Japanese the Confucian scholars and Yangban[兩班]. After proposing to Ito Hirobumi, he came to Korea to cooperate with the Japanese policy toward Korea. Shin Ki-sun participated in the establishment of Gwangmunhoe[廣文會] and became a chairperson. Because Gwangmunhoe activity made relation, It is highly possible that Ogaki supported the establishment of DaedongHakhoe.
In Korea, after the opening of the port, Shin Ki-sun and Kim Yoon-sik became the center, which led to the idea of DongDo-SeoGi[東道西器]. The theory is based on the theory of social evolution. However, as the pro-Japanese bureaucrats of the central government led Enlightenment, Japan became the ideal model of DongDo-SeoGi[東道西器] and became the basis for supporting the logic of pro-Japanese.
As the patriotic enlightenment movement became more and more fierce after the Protectorate Treaty, Confucian scholars, which is responsible for the destruction of national sovereignty, and Confucianism, which they espoused, were attacked fiercely. This caused the classical studies vs. modern sciences controversy[新舊學論爭]. Most of the old intellectuals with Confucian literacy felt a sense of crisis in the situation where the social and economic vested rights under the Confucian order would be lost. At the same time, the Japanese imperialism attempted to make a pro-Japanese faction based on Asian solidarity and the same kind of the same language theory. Japan, which emphasized "loyalty and filial piety" to some of those who had been working on DongDo-SeoGi, became the best model of the rich country. And the purpose of these pro-Japanese Confucian scholars was gradually becoming the preservation of their vested rights rather than the nation's resurrection. It is the DaedongHakhoe that has been embodied as a reactionary organization under the name of unifying the classical studies and modern sciences and defending Confucianism and scholarship.
Most of the founding members of the DaedongHakhoe were members of the pro-Japanese Confucian scholars, including those who participated in the Heungaheu, and the Great Han empire under the influence of the Residency-General supported them. The DaedongHakhoe changed the name of the Confucian Church[孔子敎會] for the separation of politics and politics, but it was in fact intended to counter the anti-Japanese Confucianism reform movement of Daedongyo[大同敎]. When the criticism of public opinion such as Korea Daily News became prosperous, it attempted to publish a daily newspaper in order to promote the opinion of the pro-Japanese, but failed.
The DaedongHakhoe carried out various activities such as publishing DaedongHakhoeWolbo[大東學會月報], operation of Daedong technical school, holding touring lecture, individual activities of officers. But, rather than concern for restoration of national rights, justified the aggression of Japan. Due to the pro-Japanese behavior of DaedongHakhoe, Korean journalists The Korea Daily News[大韓每日申報] and Hwangseong Sinmun[皇城新聞] criticized them.
The conservative reactionary pro-Japanese who rolled the DaedongHakhoe and Confucius Church to their affiliated source played the role of the epicenter of conservative reaction phenomena after organizing the professional society literary organizations under the support of Japan since 1910. Their activities continued to the DaedongSamunhoe[大東斯文會] was a pro-Japanese organization after the 1919 Independence Movement that acted as a vanguard of Japanese colonialism policy, such as rationalizing the merger of Korea and Japan and the Naeseondongjo-ron[內鮮同祖論].