韓國史의 時代區分에서 殉葬

The Burial of the Living with the Dead on the Periodization of the Korean history

The collapse of communism brought the breakdown of Marxist’s historical theory. Such a situation demands the appearance of the new historical theory. This paper propose the development of the scientific technology brought the role change of production element. these role change make the historical transition. This paper divide the world history into the primitive nature society, the ancient labor society, the medieval land society, the modem capital society, and the future robot society. The ancient labor society in Korean history was established from 8th century B.C. to the end of Three Kingdom period. This opinion was based on the burial of the living with the dead. Life was the most valuable element in the ancient labor society. The ruling class killed their slave or servant and buried them with the dead in order to prove their prestige. Their prestige meaned that they could kill the slave or the servant who had the labor as the most valuable production element. But 3-15% were the ruling classes who had the slave or the servant in the ancient Korean society 85-97% were the self-sustenance farmers. The labor was the most important element at the self-sustenance farmer’s production. Therefore we can call this period the ancient labor society.