Views of the poor as a part of Korean Culture. What is your opinion of them?
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Views of the poor as a part of Korean Culture. What is your opinion of them?
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But I found Embon's father to be more surprising... and tragic. I think his decision was mostly affected by emotions, which is usually a bad thing. He might've given up too early on himself, which says a lot about the good and bad about him. But I hate him more for being a horrible father to Embon.
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In the case of Embon's father, things were different because, although he lived in poverty, he had royal ancestry. And that is why he was chosen to marry Embon's mother.
I found it quite shocking and dehumanizing that the poorest people were not given names. Two servants in Lady Sougyon's household were nameless until the Lady chose to call them April and May.
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It goes to tell us the kind of culture the Koreans oractise and how it contrasts that man of many other nations.
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Your view is my view exactly. Yangbans were such an oddity to me. Its almost inconceivable to think of a people content in poverty or mediocrity. While their pursuit of intelligence was quite the noble and respectable venture, they could have done that and still been successful. Embon's father was a sad example of the bad side of the yangban's way of life.lavkathleen wrote: ↑23 Jan 2021, 06:25 I found yangbans surprising. They consciously choose to be poor, as they would find anything else other than government employment to be vulgar. They don't go after wealth, but instead choose to expand their intellectual skills. At least, that was how the earlier yangbans operated. It's noble, and it's fascinating how some of them can keep it up even as the world changes into something that doesn't suit this kind of thinking anymore. I'd love to read more about their origin.
But I found Embon's father to be more surprising... and tragic. I think his decision was mostly affected by emotions, which is usually a bad thing. He might've given up too early on himself, which says a lot about the good and bad about him. But I hate him more for being a horrible father to Embon.
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Yes indeed. A poor person theoretically enjoyed their life far more than a rich person as a rich person had all sorts of rules and expectations set upon them that they could not afford to ignore. Their life was predestined and set unlike that of the poor who had the freedom to pursue their dreams. Not to advocate for poverty, seeing as despite their freedom they were still after all all, the poor.Shieldmaiden88 wrote: ↑28 Jan 2021, 10:42 I think it says a lot about the culture that poverty actually results in more personal freedom than wealth. The idea a person would have to choose to stay poor to marry the person they love is truly tragic. As a western person this is pretty foreign. The vast majority of people in the west are free to marry anyone they choose.