Published on September 6, 2019.
Reposting a chapter published on the same day the previous year, this essay criticizes the illusions of “historical progress” and “historical inevitability,” arguing that industrialization and modernization are not the same thing.
Through former President Park Geun-hye’s response to the Sewol ferry disaster, her diplomacy of estrangement tactics, trials used as public examples over written offenses, Choi Soon-sil’s intervention in state affairs, and participation in China’s parade, the essay argues that what appeared was not the written “history of Korea,” but the real history of Korea imprinted in the body.

September 6, 2019.
Let us stop being deceived anymore…just as court retainers informed on others to the king, and the king informed on others to the Ming emperor, she developed iganjil diplomacy, diplomacy of estrangement tactics, and brought people into exemplary trials over written offenses.
The following is a chapter I sent out on this day last year.
The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
Park Geun-hye, whose mind remained in ancient times.
Let us stop being deceived anymore.
There is no such thing as “the progress of history” or “the inevitability of history.”
But because people believed there was, it is true that it gave the people of developing countries a sense of reassurance.
“Since progress will happen, everyone can modernize, so do not worry.”
But even this was not true.
Even if a country can industrialize, it does not necessarily mean it can modernize.
Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, for example, had a mind that remained in ancient times.
In the Sewol ferry sinking incident, she disappeared from sight like a king of the Yi dynasty.
Just as court retainers informed on others to the king, and the king informed on others to the Ming emperor, she developed iganjil diplomacy, diplomacy of estrangement tactics, brought people into exemplary trials over written offenses, allowed the mudang, or shaman, Choi Soon-sil to intervene in state affairs, and participated in China’s parade out of sadaejuui, the mentality of being a subject of a great power; in other words, she embodied not the written, false “history of Korea,” but the real history of Korea that had been soaked into the body.
That is why historians must create history so that there are no contradictions among events.
Yes, history does not progress.
After all, look at what is before your eyes.
The you of a moment ago is no longer there.
Natural time is born and disappears, disappears and is born, and only the chain of events remains inside you.
But with only that, one cannot recognize the world well.
Without a proper causal story, one cannot walk through the world well.
But there were also people who walked through the world without that.
Ancient Egyptians and ancient Indians before they were conquered by Islam, for example, did not notice causality, and so they had no interest in history.
That is why they do not have even a single history book.
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