Research On Wester Learning Factor Piayed In North Korea Civilized Faction Of Thought

In the later 19th century, Korea, in a remote corner of Northeast Asia was not able to compete against the western forces possessed civilization and military. With the closed-door was opened by the imperialism powerfully, western learning further spread while enlightened thought was inspired by the new ideas.Since the west culture communication to China, and in this case, enlightened thought arose under the influence of China and Japan. More importantly, enlightened thought was under the influence of western learning, which means the advanced civilization of Western Capitalism. Based on this, the civilized faction was nourished by the western learning. Therefore they gradually created the recent-epoch social consciousness which have a profound influence on Korea's recent-epoch social transformation. Civilized faction requested to bring in the western technology, to learn from the west, and to ameliorate the backwardness of our nation.The new Western civilization had a dreadful impact in matter and mind on the ancient Korea society, and opportunity of survival and hope to the traditional feudal society. Concept of Chinese and Foreign was innate in the civilized faction's mind, gradually approaching the modern worldview.Influenced by west learning, civilized faction became modernized as the time passing by. And while under the influence of west sociology, they tried to shake off the world perspective with China as the center, sought the state independence in the modern sense, required the reformation of backward feudalism, and built independent and prosperous modern nation. They used capitalistic civil right ideas as a weapon, striving for equal rights for people, following the capitalist countries to establish capitalist system. They began to realize the importance of the business through their overseas study and information, and tried to make their dream of power come true by feeding their commerce. To renew the Korea's commerce, the civilized faction had also put forward mew approach to feed commerce. Meanwhile, they reformed the unreasonable fiscal and financial system and adopted the monetary system with modern characteristics.They also made an attempt to civilize their people with the advanced western civilization, realized the necessity and urgency of promoting the quality of the whole nation through education. In order to raise national consciousness, cultivate people's patriotism, civilized faction did attach importance to the national education as well as the activities of speech and publication. Thanks to their endeavor, publishing industry of North Korea developed gradually, and also let the innocent Korea people learn a lot and civilized gradually.Civilized faction's ideology has modern character in the fields such as:politics, economy, and culture, and also represented the direction of development of modern Korean society. Their efforts had made modern factors in society of North Korea increasing little by little. The Korean society has gradually come close to the threshold of modern society.