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==Confucianism in Korea==

==Confucianism in Korea==

Confucianism and a writing system based on the [[Chinese language]] were already in use in the Korean [[Three Kingdoms (Korea)|Three Kingdoms]] by the 4th century. [[Koguryo]] established a National Confucian Academy (太学) in [[372]]. [[Buddhism]] remained dominant, however, over Confucianism in Korea for over a thousand years, with Confucianism only first becoming dominant in the 15th century. Some scholars argue that the Confucianization of Korean society was not complete until the 17th century, and the 17th-18th centuries saw considerable ritual controversies.<ref>Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 125.</ref>

Confucianism (K: ''yugyo'') and a writing system based on the [[Chinese language]] were already in use in the Korean [[Three Kingdoms (Korea)|Three Kingdoms]] by the 4th century. Some scholars believe that both may have been introduced as early as the 2nd century BCE.<ref name=pam>Gallery labels, Pacific Asia Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/14807997540/in/photostream/]</ref>

 

King [[Sosurim]] of [[Koguryo]] established a National Confucian Academy (太学, K: ''taehak'') in [[372]], and several centuries later, King [[Gwangjong]] of [[Goryeo]] established a system of Confucian examinations for selecting scholar-officials to be appointed to government posts.<ref name=pam/> [[Buddhism]] remained dominant, however, over Confucianism in Korea for over a thousand years, with Confucianism only first becoming dominant in the 15th century. At that time, the [[Joseon]] Court adopted Neo-Confucianism (K: ''seongrihak'') in the vein of Zhu Xi (K: Joo Hui) as the chief guiding political philosophy of the court.<ref name=pam/> Some scholars argue that the Confucianization of Korean society was not complete until the 17th century, and the 17th-18th centuries saw considerable ritual controversies.<ref>Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 125.</ref>

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