Gwon Ram and Han Myeonghoe (2)

“A king must act like a king, a subject like a subject, a father like a father, and a child like a child. Do you truly think what you did was the act of a father?”

It is only in a corrupted form of Confucianism—or, to be more precise, the form whose worst aspects were magnified after it crossed over into Japan—that people are taught to torment and abuse their children as they please while demanding unquestioning filial piety.

Even Mencius, Confucius's successor, said, ‘A king must act like a king. A bastard who does not act like a king is not a human being but a verminous rebel. It is permissible to kill him.’

To think that a man who called himself a father would get drunk, beat and mistreat his lawful wife, and even beat his own children—could such a thing make any sense?

He's such a piece of shit that even dunking him in sewage three times and roasting him alive wouldn't be enough.

"Do you know what expressions the children in my house had on their faces when they came running out of your residence?"

"How should I know? I was drunk and out of my mind at the time."

"They looked terrified, like children fleeing a murderer chasing them with a sword. I may be overstepping by involving myself in your family affairs, my lord, but when I saw the children running out because they wanted to live, I could not simply pass them by."

The civil servant who helped my family used to say that.

The district chief would chew him out, telling him to stop making such a big deal out of everything and asking whether he truly had no intention of getting promoted...