Research On The Enlightenment Of South Korea’s Family Moral Education Under Confucian Culture

Family moral education is the foundation of social moral education. Under the social transformation, China has obtained remarkable economic achievements. However, there are many social problems as well, such as moral anomie and utilitarianism of values etc. Under the new era of socialism development, socialist ethnics should be constructed by grasping the family moral education, taking traditional Confucian culture as its source and taking excellent cultures all over the world and the experience of moral education in other countries as reference.South Korea, the country neighboring to China, is one of the most underdeveloped countries in 1960 s. However, after the collision between traditional and modern, oriental and occidental diversified culture values, South Korea leads its own family moral education road and creates the ‘Korean Miracle’, which greatly enhances its national pride and cohesive force. China resembles South Korea in its cultural and moral tradition and these two countries all belong to the Confucian Heritage Culture in East Asian, which makes the development situation of these two countries comparable. It is quite beneficial for the family moral education construction in China by summarizing the experience of the family moral education in South Korea under Confucian culture.The primary experience of the family moral education in South Korea is to inherit the traditional Confucian culture on the basis of its own national conditions. It instills the filial piety culture in family daily etiquette, forms excellent filial culture phenomenon as well as strong national cohesion by greatly popularizing patriotism education by applying the media and civil organizations. Secondly, South Korean government issued the National Education Charter which is the guiding principles for South Korea’s education so as to direct the family moral education in South Korea; besides, the government published as series of laws and regulations maintain the stability of the family and promoted the rule of virtue by rule of law. Finally, the families in South Korea, schools and society join forces which centralize family moral education by combing with moral education to maximize the education extent.The family moral education for South Korea under the Confucian culture can present the following enlightenment for China: the family moral education in China should be guided by socialism core values and seeks for the core that suits the current national conditions from traditional Confucian culture so as to inherit the traditional Confucian culture in daily etiquette, parental instructions and school courses through adopting various educational approaches. Besides, the family moral education should be promoted by national level. On the one hand, it can promote the joint efforts of rule by law and rule by virtue to provide solid guarantee for the moral regulations which relied on self-disciplines before. On the other hand, the government should guide all the social forces to construct the family moral education. Finally, it is necessary to link the family, schools and social education to tie the forces of the three aspects together so as to mutually support and promote the family moral education in China.