• (The)Study of the Eastern Classic
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• no.48
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• pp.195-223
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• 2012

Until now, I guess, many scholars misunderstood the characteristic of economic awareness of Yi Hang-no as if it was a modern nationalism or radicalism against Japanese anti-Korean insistences. But I think these opinions are out of historical attitude. So to understand Yi's economic awareness correctly, I think, We should focus on the traditional Confucian thought system at that time. As one method to reach the goal, I focused on the word, Jeong-jeon-je: Oriental equal land system. Yi Hang-no put the importance on Jeong-jeon-je to make utopia he dreamed of. Yi thought Jeong-jeon-je is the basis of equal society and strong state. Also Yi thought a moral society would be achieved by Jeong-jeon-je because the equal land system, so called Jeong-jeon-je provide peasants with equal lands, so it makes peasants stable in economic situation. Especially, Yi Hang-no put importance on that Jeong-jeon-je would raise moral consciousness of people because equal economic condition makes people wealthy, so people would be good men naturally. Yi Hang-no explain it in basis of Insim-Dosim-seol: a theory of two minds bad & good to be. Yi Hang-no thought equal economic condition is the basis of making people moral being. He thought Jeong-jeon-je was a basis of the condition. Reversely, Yi thought Western insists of trade was the beginning of making people fight for individual benefit, so it produces devil selfishness out of human mind. That was the reason that Yi Hang-no opposed the trade with Western Powers. Eventually Yi's assertion of embargo came out of his Insim-Dosim-seol. In this context, Yi's Jeong-jeon-je was insisted as a method to raise human moral consciousness.

• Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.17-22
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• 2011

남북 쌍방의 정치 협상이나 현황에 의미를 두지 말고 제 3 세계 주관사를 초청하여 서울 신의주 간 고속도로 민자 사업을 계획, 시공 및 관리하자는 주장은 이상에 불과할 수 있다. 남북 간 정경 분리 원칙을 내세우지만 간단한 미풍에도 흔들리고 있는 것이 개성공단의 현실이다. 필자는 거창한 통일 관련 학자는 아니지만 도로를 사랑하는 사람으로 도로인에 남북 화합의 지휘자가 되라고 권한다. 통상 사업 초기, 기획의 미비로 드는 추가 비용을 예방비용, 평가비용, 실패비용으로 구성할 수 있는데 대기업들은 예방비용에 미리 투자함으로써 품질은 높이고 비용은 줄이는 전략을 구사하고 있다. 대북 인프라 사업은 예방비용에 투자하는 것과 같다. 북한에 투자하는 SOC 사업은 비용은 파악하기 쉬운 반면, 그것이 가지고 올 이익은 장기적이고, 위험도가 크며, 또한 편익을 정량화하는 것이 어려운 특성이 있어 반대 여론이 높은 것이 사실이다. 그러나 조건 없는 남북 경협을 주장하는 것이 아닌 이상 남북 양 정부 이익을 창출할 수 있는 제 3자 방식의 민자를 통한 도로 사업은 현재 논의되고 있는 어떠한 SOC 사업보다 타당성이 있다. 도로 건설 불가론이란 거대 여론앞에 풍전등화의 두려움에 떨고 있는 건설인들에게 북한 도로 시장이라는 커다란 선물 보따리를 정부가 앞장 서 풀어주길 기대한다.

• (The)Study of the Eastern Classic
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• no.34
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• pp.257-286
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• 2009

Yi, Hang-no said that taiji(=li) was Myeong-deok(illustrious virtue), the core of mind and heart, emphasizing the sides of superintendent and mysterious ability of li. It seems that he aimed to stress the upper status of li than qi, out of earlier general theory on mind and heart recognizing both li and qi consisted in the mind and heart. Through it, he wanted to say that only human being had moral mind like taiji and upper moral status than animals which human being should keep. The reason that Yi, Hang-no emphasized the difference between li and qi was because of a critical mind that the upper value of li than qi should not be changed and it would be the most dangerous situation if the value collapsed. Like this, Yi, Hang-no's attitude emphasizing li in his theory of mind and heart eventually aimed to explain the theory of Insim(Desire to be) and Dosim(Moral Mind). Yi, Hang-no's disciples testified that their teacher, Yi, Hang-no had cost his whole life to study the theory of Insim and Dosim. This means that Yi, Hang-no had tried to discriminate between Insim and Dosim, and to block private desires in Insim. The fact that Yi, Hang-no stressed the importance of the theory of Insim and Dosim had to do with the special situation that Western Power approached Joseon dynasty. Because Yi, Hang-no opposed the Westerner's moral consciousness for individual desires, against heavenly orders. To overcome the Western challenge, Yi, Hang-no strived to notice that taiji was the core of human mind. The point that Yi, Hang-no wanted to say was that Dosim(Moral Mind) was just the heavenly orders which human being couldn't disobey. Yi, Hang-no thought that Joseon couldn't defence Western flow without this theory of Insim and Dosim. Just after French invasion(1866), Yi, Hang-no was selected as a high-leveled bureaucrat, so he insisted his opinions for rejecting heterodoxy by the letters to the throne several times. The letters also contained his theory of Insim and Dosim mainly. Insisting fight against Western Power and prohibition of trade with Western Power, Yi, Hang-no eventually emphasized the king's right mind(Dosim) as a main and sole means to achieve all the goals he said. In conclusion, Yi, Hang-no's theory on mind and heart was as it is reflected in his letters to the throne. Therefore we can see that Yi, Hang-no's theory on mind and heart had harmonized with his movement to "Rejecting Heterodoxy".