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[–] 71 points 6 months ago (13 children)

So I live in South Korea. The medical system here is heavily subsidized and socialized. This makes it very cheap and (mostly) accessible, but the downside is the bureaucracy that comes with that. It is also a very litigious culture, which makes it worse. Doctors here are extremely wary to prescribe anything too strong, and they communicate very little with the patients. It's just, "Trust me, I'm a doctor." And of course the neo-confucian mindset is also very strong here, with all the rigid hierarchy that comes with it.

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    Neo-confucianism is a broad term for a loose collection of philosophical ideas influenced by or based on the writings of Confucius, the Chinese philosopher. It strongly influenced the development of Korean society, and it was the official state ideology at one point. It is still very prevalent, although not always expressed explicitly.

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    Neo-confucianism is a broad term for a loose collection of philosophical ideas influenced by or based on the writings of Confucius

    It refers to Confucianism as it was revived during and after the Song dynasty (성리학). In the case of Korea, it typically refers to the orthodoxy that traces its heritage back to Confucius through Zhuxi, the Cheng brothers, and Mencius.

    Also not to be confused with New Confucianism, which is a modern Chinese development of Confucianism.

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