King Sejong the Great
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5 years ago in #korea by abitcoinskeptic (73)
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Thank you, it was interesting))) Than I love our Steemit - you come to read something and in one day you can learn news from different parts of the world and read a bit of history)))
Wonderful historical post @abitcoinskeptic. I enjoyed it.
Fascinating history. I'm embarrassed that I know little about the history of this part of the world. With respect to the thousands of Chinese characters, I too always thought it would be so hard to learn them, but a Chinese colleague of mine said that when he trying to teach his month English, she complained that it was very difficult because there were only 26 letters to form thousands of words!
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Most people only learn western or eastern history. Actually until recently there was very little world history anyway since they barely interacted and knew little more than place names and whatever product was sourced from there.
Interesting you bring up that anecdote on trying to learn chinese vs english.
Whether Hangul makes it easier for people who don't know Korean to learn compared to the Chinese script is harder to measure.
Koreans still use Chinese to determine if two Kims are related or not and for place names, traditional poetry, and temples.
For highly literate natives, its a matter of opinion which is better.
In the case of teaching natives who already speak it to read and write, both the English Roman Alphabet and Korean Hangul are far superior to Chinese script.
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Huh.. interesting guy! I don't know much about Asian history, so a quick history lesson was quite interesting! I didn't see that statue when I was in Seoul, but it is a huge city and we were really in one small part of it near one of the concert halls!
Oh I didn't know you went to Seoul. If you did the standard tourist coarse you would have seen him unless your visit was over a decade ago, since it is quite new.
You are right about it being a big city and concert hall doesn't sufficiently narrow it down. There are a few theatres nearby.
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It was a few years ago... Lotte concert hall (Philharmonic?). I loved the food over there!
Ah ha, Lotte hall is closer to the Olympics site which is quite far from the palaces in the central area. There is an indoor amusement park and small lake nearby. It should be extremely crowded this weekend for cherry blossoms.
The food is great all over.
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Thanks for the facts and the detail. Cheers
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Oh, quite an interesting historical figure :) I didn't know it was this king that had invented Hangul! Fascinating <3
I really love history, and yours is written so well and it makes the article easy to read :D Really lovely !
Thanks.
He is really popular herefor that reason. Actually we get a day off work on October 9th to celebrate the day it was proclaimed.
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The perspective makes it appear as if the man washing the statue is a giant 😆
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Haha yeah, just noticed that. There are lots of pictures of them washing him
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I love world history didn't know about King Sejong the Great though, will be reading more about him, seems like he was a fair king! He is Taurus like myself, Feeling like a King already lol.
Great to learn about the king, and that there can be some good rulers sometimes. By formulating a written language and improving the culture he has left a good legacy. Korea is a major leader in cryptocurrency today. We just need to reunite the two Koreas now.
They thing about hereditary kings is most of them don't have an insane desire to rule like self made dictators. So occasionally you get good ones.
Unification is a whole other topic. Maybe I'll post about it again if there is another key meeting soon.
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Yes do post more updates. The current hereditary king Kim of N Korea is difficult to understand by us in the west. Maybe he has a reason to be so defensive against the US and her provinces like S Korea when they were the oppressor in the Korean War.
There is rumor he may bring russia back in to negotiations because USA and china have too many other issues to discuss.
I don't don't think either should trust the other. Actually north korea attacked South Korea first. Conveniently it happened just as USSR developed nuclear weapons. Provoking America when they were the only ones nuking people would have been foolish.
South korea was set up to prevent russia and china from taking Korea. If you notice China doesn't exactly liberate their neighbors they consume them. Korea would have likely become another Tibet without US interventionism. Neither Korea would want that.
It isn't an easy situation to solve, Russia, China and America don't want a unified Korea unless it is unified on terms they can tolerate. Kim can't respect human rights while his economy is so undeveloped and America won't allow development until he denuclearizes. If he does that, he will lose his edge in negotiations. A nuclear north korea is the only way korea unifies on north korean terms. South korea is divided but most people want a south korean solution or are distracted by materialism and dont care as long as that isn't affected.
In my opinion the best solution is avoid conflict and slowly improve human rights. People looking for a quick solution are nuts.
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Good to hear your insights. I have little experience of info on Korea so am happy to be informed. Yes I can see how China is quite a colonizer. I stayed in Taipei city once for 6 weeks. Modernized Asia is very materialistic as you say, and hard working. Not much time for philosophy, meditation or inner development. Buddhism would be a good addition to any culture.
An interesting take on Sejong. I agree that as far as rulers go, he was alright - I only wonder what atrocities we may not be privy to.. history is written by the victors, after all. In any case, good write up, I’m off to learn more about him now!
Well he did attack people on both fronts. He also surpressed religion. Unfortunately there arent a lot of sources that arent heavily biased since it wasn't wise to offend the king.
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