China's five thousand years of splendid culture, ancient China has created a world-renowned splendor, there are more than a dozen vassal states of more than a thousand years, which has a great impact on neighboring countries, especially South Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other Chinese cultural circle countries. Chinese characters were used in the past. Especially in Korea, the ancient Sinicization is the most thorough, and the use of Chinese characters is also the most extensive, so why should modern Korea abolish the Chinese characters that have been used for thousands of years? The reason is infuriating!
"Kanji Retention"
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Basically Chinese characters were used thoroughly in Korea, and the examination system was also Chinese characters, and scholars were proud to know Chinese characters and speak Chinese! At that time, the Hanzi poems they composed were basically the same as those in the mainland! Instead, the Korean language founded by their King Sejong has not been promoted. In modern times, the great Qing Dynasty was bullied and began to decline. Korea is also in the process of being forced to abolish Chinese characters!
"Japan 50 Years"
After the decline of the Qing Dynasty, especially after the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese gradually controlled the Korean Peninsula, and then directly annexed it, and the King of Korea was sent to Japan, and the Korean Peninsula became part of Japan, beginning nearly 50 years of rule. The Japanese, on the other hand, are well aware of the bonds of culture, and to completely conquer the Koreans, they must change their culture. Therefore, they implemented two policies, one is to start abolishing Chinese characters, not allowing the use of Chinese characters, and de-Sinicizing the influence; the other is to vigorously promote Japanese characters and simplified characters, and forcibly teach Japanese. However, the effect of Japan's abolition of Kanji is not obvious, and the public still secretly uses them, but in 50 years, it has indeed created two generations of Koreans who speak Japanese and write Japanese.
"Pressure from the U.S. government"
And the most critical knife is still given by the Americans. After World War II, the southern part of Korea, occupied by the United States, became the Republic of Korea, and Americans were well aware of the role of cultural ties. Since 1948, the United States has pressured the South Korean government to abolish Chinese characters, and the South Korean government has specially promulgated laws to implement them. After the Korean War, the United States tightened its grip on the Korean Peninsula and in the 1970s stepped up the implementation of the abolition of Chinese characters. It is forbidden to teach Chinese characters in primary schools, middle schools, and universities, only 700 basic Chinese characters are allowed to be learned in middle schools, and only three universities retain Chinese majors! Chinese characters began to gradually withdraw from the stage of history in Korea.
What is interesting is that many experts in South Korea are now calling for the restoration of Chinese characters, because the Korean history that does not know Chinese characters has been completely divided, because the ancient history is all Ancient Chinese Character Books, which is the reason why South Korea's current history is so chaotic, arbitrary interpretation, and random fabrication!