Abstract
All religions have a system of rules governing the family. In Islam, family law is called odat, and women's rights are strictly protected, while in Hinduism, books describing Hindu religions such as the Arthashastra and the Dharmashastra show that there is a system of rules that encourages a woman to obey her husband in any situation. This article focuses on family law in Korea during the Choson Dynasty, examining the impact of Confucianism on family procedures and its main differences from Buddhism, as well as issues related to divorce.
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From my point of view, it would not be wrong to say that the Choson Kingdom, unlike many of its contemporaries, was one of the first to achieve the status of a secular state. For from that time onwards, an order was established in which the ruler was subject to the ruler, not to the religion.