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The medical system here in Korea has the full spectrum of convenient and affordable treatment to almost comically broken policies like the ones this article mentions. Even so, it is overall still so much better than healthcare in the US (I know that is a low bar, but the contrast is stark).

Neo-confucianism is a broad term for a loose collection of philosophical ideas influenced by or based on the writings of Confucius

It refers to Confucianism as it was revived during and after the Song dynasty (성리학). In the case of Korea, it typically refers to the orthodoxy that traces its heritage back to Confucius through Zhuxi, the Cheng brothers, and Mencius.

Also not to be confused with New Confucianism, which is a modern Chinese development of Confucianism.