It was during the Koryo dynasty where things began to change philosophically as well as politically. The last king of the Koryo dynasty, Yi Songgye, declared that he was the first king of the Joseon (or Choseon) dynasty, which allowed a new era for the Neo-confucians to get rid of Buddhism, as it was thought of as “corrupting” of their politics and morals. This new era for Korea lasted from 1392 to 1910 which …show more content…
He advanced the sciences, scholarship, and even art during this period that was heavily Neo-Confucian, as it was an attempt to bring humans together in harmony. King Sejong wanted the Korean people to have their own written language in order for everyone to easily understand and read, though there were some against his new written language, calling it “a vulgarization of written language” as the writing system at the time were simply Chinese characters that were extremely complex and was exclusive for the yangban (the hereditary aristocratic bureaucracy). Though King Sejong kept this creation of Hangul a secret, he worked on it and finally revealed it to his government