[History of Korea_Joseon Dynasty] Kim Man-deok by StoriaGold on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Published: Nov 13, 2023

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Name: Kim Man-deok

Dynasty: Joseon Dynasty

Born: 1739
Died: 1812

Kim Man-deok was a Korean merchant and businesswoman of Joseon. When a major famine hit Jeju Island, all of the rice she had bought on land was freed and donated to save the starving people of the island. After her death, contemporaries wrote her biography and poems in her honor.

She is regarded as Korea's first CEO and an example of philanthropism and pragmatism. She managed to achieve her position in Jeju thanks to the island's egalitarian and matrifocal culture, where women had greater economic and social independence than the rest of the country, whose Neo-Confucian ideology enforced strong female repression.

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