Talk:Korean Empire
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[edit] Major Expansion of Article
Because this article is absurdedly uninformative of an otherwise rather well-documented and detailed chapter of Korean history, I believe that the most appropriate course of action for any interested editor/user would be to drastically revamp and expand this article. The changes will be drastic, but I will try to keep them as neutral as possible by adding references to sources from a diversity of countries. Of course, I myself speak only three languages (English, Japanese, and Korean), and my Korean is rather limited, so I will need a translator. I hear that Wikipedia has quite a lot of multilingual editors up to requests; perhaps I'll try consulting one of them.--Jh.daniell 15:54, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Not cutting one's hair for life - an example of the influence of Confucian philosophy?
- Does anyone have a source for the claim that traditional Korean and Japanese hairstyles and the tradition of never cutting one's hair had roots in Confucian philosophy? I find this claim very hard to believe, because the tradition for all adult Japanese males and females to do up their hair in a bun dates back at least to the time of the earliest extant Japanese texts, such as the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki, in which one finds orders from the Kami: wotoko womina, kotogotoku kami yupiageyo ("Men, women, all of you tie up your hair!"). A solemn order from a Shinto god to do up one's hair would not appear to have any connection to China or Chinese culture, let alone Confucianism. Secondly, it is important to keep in mind that Confucianism does not and has never had a strong influence over the Japanese, so although the Koreans might have at some time in history associated some Confucian idea with their traditional hairstyle after the appearance of major Confucian influence in Korean culture, it is likely that such a Confucianism-associated Korean rationalization of their grooming traditions is something akin to a folk etymology and has no basis in historical fact. Ebizur 04:23, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Was the "Sam-taeguk" really the flag of the Korean Empire? And does it have to be that big in the table? CronusXT 19:53, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
