Period
Modern Korea
1910 – present
From the end of the Joseon dynasty Korean philosophers met modernity, colonial rule and Western thought, among them the Buddhist nun and feminist Kim Iryeop.
The modern period begins in 1910, when the Joseon dynasty ended under Japanese rule. Korean thinkers responded to modernity and to Western philosophy, and Buddhists sought to show the value of their tradition in the modern world and to bring it to ordinary people. Women such as the nun Kim Iryeop, once a leading writer of the “New Woman” movement, drew on Seon Buddhism to rethink the self and women’s freedom.
- Traditions
- Korean
Philosophers
- Bak Jungbin1891–1943
- Kim Iryeop1896–1971
Sources
- Halla Kim, Korean Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Lucy Hyekyung Jee, Korean Buddhism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy