DBWI: No Confucian Revolution of 1979?

The current diplomatic debacle America is in with Korea, as opposed to the detente with North Persia, got me thinking...

The corrupt, America-tied Korean monarchy was toppled by the Confucian Revolution of 1979, and the government was replaced by an authoritarian scholar-ruled regime based on the ideology of Institutional Confucianism.

What if this had not happened?

And, for double irony, could there ever have been an Islamic Revolution in (a non-divided) Persia?
 
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If Jiang Qing is supposed to have been the inspiration for the Confucian Revolution(as per your link), he'd be quite the prodigy. Going by the dates, he'd be no older than 26 when the Revolution took place.
 
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And Confucians rising up to topple a monarchy might be a bit taller of an order than Shiites doing the same thing in Iran OTL. First off, you'd need to posit a non-Confucian Korean monarchy existing in 1979, though I suppose they could just be regarded as lukewarm Confucians, the way Khomeini and company regarded the Shah.

And then you'd need Confucianism to give rise to a tendency that encourages revolutionary violence. Obviously, there has been a lot of street protest in South Korea OTL, though I'm not aware that much of it was carried out spcifically in the name of Confucianism.
 
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If Jiang Qing is supposed to have been the inspiration for the Confucian Revolution(as per your link), he'd be quite the prodigy. Going by the dates, he'd be no older than 26 when the Revolution took place.
An ideology similar to Jiang Qing's is the inspiration here, not the actual person.

you'd need Confucianism to give rise to a tendency that encourages revolutionary violence.
Confucianism does have such a concept, and it's not as if Islam specifically encourages revolution as a tenet of the faith.
 
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An ideology similar to Jiang Qing's is the inspiration here, not the actual person.


Confucianism does have such a concept, and it's not as if Islam specifically encourages revolution as a tenet of the faith.
OOC:I can see the Confucians reducing the monarch to figurehead status and depose a monarch even,with the leader of the revolution rules as Chancellor similar to Cao Cao,but toppling the monarchy altogether is against the core tenets of Confucianism.
 
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