The two Korean professors intend to co-write a paper to prove that Confucius was Korean. When The President of South Korea at the time, Roh Tae-woo, was shocked when he heard about it, he quickly asked the two professors and asked them for what purpose they were trying to risk slipping the world and saying such a thing.
Former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo
The two professors did not hide their faces from their presidents, and they stated their true intentions, which was to prove the orthodoxy of East Asian culture in South Korea.
President Roh Tae-woo smiled and told them that before Emperor Sejong, the Korean nation did not even have its own script, and our own history and culture were written and recorded using Chinese characters.
Looking at the puzzled eyes of the two professors, President Roh Tae-woo went on to say that after General Park Chung-hee became president, he practiced de-Sinicization in Korea, did not teach Chinese characters in schools, and did not use Chinese characters in his daily life, resulting in a cultural disconnection in the Korean nation, and the entire three generations of Koreans since General Park Chung-hee could no longer read the history books and other cultural books left by their ancestors.
Former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo
A nation that has passed on history through the use of other languages for 1,200 years, to rob the cultural founders of a nation that invented writing and formed a hundred ideas such as Confucianism, publishes a paper like yours, and it is not only two people who have lost people, but also 50 million Koreans.
The two professors said that the actual economic development and the international influence of culture prove that the Korean nation is indeed the best, so not only Confucius, but all Confucian celebrities in the Confucian cultural circle must be the ancestors of the Korean nation.
Lu Taiyu said with a smile that in fact, our history books are very clear, as early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, our ancestors went to China to study Confucianism and Taoist thought in large quantities, and also copied all the theories of Chinese medicine. In this long historical process, China has been leading Asia, especially the East Asian cultural circle, which is an indisputable fact.
The fact that you two think that we are surpassing China in economic and cultural soft power today is essentially a misunderstanding, because we are following the West and are now religiously vassals of the Holy See and politically dominated by the United States. But China is independent, whether political, military, religious, technological and cultural, they are in a position of reciprocal dialogue with the West, so that there is hope for countries with independent autonomy.
Seoul(Seoul), the capital of South Korea
Roh Tae-woo continued to remind the two Korean professors that with Chinese culture as the dominant, South Korea can exist in the long run, with Westerners as the leader, and the Republic of Korea will no longer exist in a few years, at least the population will not be enough for us to support for 120 years.
The two Korean professors suddenly became enlightened and began to study sinology and popularize Chinese culture to Koreans.
Note: President Lu Taiyu's ancestral home is Shandong, China, and he once returned home to worship his ancestors during his presidency.