https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Japan-invade-Korea-in-the-late-1500s/answer/%E6%A1%91%E7%94%B0-%E5%81%A5%E5%8F%B8-Kuwata-Kenji?__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=4670151285
Even at that time, this situation was the same.
Because The Enlightenment Party of Joseon has done "Gabo Reform".
Main provisions of the Gabo Reform
The Gabo Reform was similar to the Meiji Restoration in Japan and produced the following sweeping changes and declarations:
- Korea is a sovereign country (i.e., completely independent from China's external interference).
- Hierarchical society (class system) is abolished. Social privileges of the yangban class are eliminated.
- Those with talent are to be allowed to study and appointed to government posts based on merit alone, regardless of social class.
- The army is to be established on the basis of conscription, regardless of background. A modern police force and military are established.
- All official documents are to be written in Hangul, and not hanja (Chinese characters).
- Leather working, acting, and so on are to no longer be regarded as degrading work, and the people who do them are no longer outcasts.
- A sound system of fiscal management and to use the government's fiscal resources to create wealth for the country is developed.
- Torture of suspects and witnesses was banned, guilt by association ended (punishment of family members of criminals)
- End of merchant monopolies
- Ban of sale of slaves from 1886 confirmed, and all forms of legal slavery ended
- Marriage age raised to twenty for men, sixteen for women (outlawing child marriage)
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