Significant Meaning of Cultural History upon Dispatching the Korean Envoy to Japan in the Late Chosun Dynasty

Ha Woo Bong

The dispatch of the Korean Envoy to Japan in the late Chosun Dynasty can be interpreted as a by-products interwoven with the motivation of domestic politics and the situation of international politics. The character of the dispatch was fundamentally political, but simultaneously contained a cultural meaning. Anyway, since the middle 17th century, owing to the international situation became stable, the political meaning of the dispatch became decreased, instead the secondary meaning, the cultural exchange gradually emerged. From the beginning the Chosun government emphasized the function of the dispatch as a mean of peaceful maintenance between Korea and Japan by mean of civilization enlightenment. The cultural exchange actions of the Korean envoy to Japan became to be activated from 1682. Among group of the Korean envoy various talented personnel, for example, doctors, clerks, painters, official poet and confucian scholars were included. And in order to emphasize the dignity of the Korean envoy, members of musical band and guard of honor consisted of 100 men. This composition was unique because it was difficult to find the similar composition in the Korean envoy to other country including the Korean envoy to China. Under the national isolation policy of the Togukawa Shogun, the expectation about the envoy and an ardent desire for cultural exchange were widely spread not only into many scholars and intellectuals but also unknown peoples in the Japanese society. The various exchange programs were actively carried out by many officials of the Shogun and the Confusian scholars in the level of each technical areas and academic majors in Edo and other cities. The cultural exchange through the Korean envoy to Japan has influenced on the development of modern Japanese culture including not only Chinese literature and Confucian but also painting, writing and medical science. In addition to this, the dispatch of the Korean envoy to Japan was significant because the intellectuals in Chosun had a good opportunity to reconfirm the Japanese society. The cultural exchange of scholars and peoples through the Korean Envoy to Japan was not politically oriented but pure, since many Japanese peoples' curious reactions were well described in the painting of the Korean Envoy to Japan. I would like to conclude that the peaceful good-neighbor diplomacy and the cultural exchange activity should be fresh illuminated and positively appreciated as a desirable model for the future Korean-Japan relationship.

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