Jeong Min, Seo-hak, Jo-seon-eul gwan-tong-ha-da (Western learning penetrates Joseon). Seoul: Kim Yeong-sa, 2022.
Hard cover, 901 pages, illustrations.
Professor Jeong Min's Hidden Story of Korean Church History
Western learning (secular and religious) penetrates Joseon Korea in the late eighteenth century. Under the late Joseon dynasty, foreigners were barred from entry into Korea and foreign influences were viewed with great hostility. Even before the illegal entry of Western priests in the mid-nineteenth century, Catholic Christianity had infiltrated the Korean peninsula and spread quickly.
Machine translation: The whirlwind of Western learning that permeated Joseon-era Korea.
Professor Jeong Min, who has deeply explored the intellectual history of Joseon, has compiled the history of the early Catholic Church from the mid-1770s, the birth of Western learning, to the Sin-Yu Persecution of 1801. Based on meticulous research and thorough verification, he has corrected errors that have been repeated in the Catholic and academic world, and has comprehensively covered the controversies and issues surrounding Western learning through newly discovered and introduced literature, vast amounts of historical materials, and detailed footnotes. It is impossible to closely read the influence of Western learning on Joseon society through a simple diagram of acceptance, spread, persecution, and martyrdom. A masterpiece that three-dimensionally restores the Western learning that permeated Joseon and the whirlwind caused by Western learning from between the lines of concealed and censored materials.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TEXT IS ENTIRELY IN KOREAN HANGEUL. I have found that it is possible to translate such texts with a high degree of accuracy by dropping images of the pages into Google Translate.
I bought the book in Korea while living in Korea earlier this year. It is in pristine condition.
