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Children Learn Confucian Morals
The class was designed to provide children with a rare chance to learn Korean traditional education, which enables them to study individually equivalent to a "sodang (Korean old school)" under strict guidance of the schoolmaster in addition to lectures about Korea.
by Chung Ah-young, Korea Times (January 14, 2005)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200501/kt2005011416392110510.htm

Confucian Morals

Disturbed by constant warfare among the states, Confucius taught that most of the ills of society happened because people forgot their stations in life and rulers lost virtue. He advocated a return to the golden antiquity of emperors Yao and Shun, when rulers were virtuous and people knew their places. Therefore, Confucius' primary concern lay in social relations, proper conduct and social harmony. Confucius defined five cardinal relationships: between ruler and ruled, between husband and wife, between parents and children, between older and younger brothers and between friends. Except for the last case, all of the defined relationships are between superiors and inferiors. He emphasized the complete obedience and loyalty of the inferior to the superior but also mentioned the benevolence of the superior to the inferior. The ideal Confucian family was an extended one of three or four generations in which authority rested with the elderly male members. Filial piety (obedience to parents) was one of the most important virtues emphasized by later Confucians.
http://www.regenttour.com/china/phi_rel/index2.htm

For 2,500 years Confucian teachings have influenced the thought and behavior of peoples in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. A major emphasis of Asian women scholars has been the examination of Confucian ideology on their history and current status. Scholar Xiao Ma has said: "Women always have been fighting for a way out of the Confucian shadows."
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson3.html

Menciuss, a disciple of Confucianism, "There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons."

Record of Ritual and Book of Rites (Han dynasty): "No daughter-in-law, without being told to go to her own apartment, should venture to withdraw from that of her parent-in-law. What ever she is about to do, she should first ask leave from them." "Women are to be led and to follow others."
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson3plus.html