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Gwangyejuui — Korean Relational Ontology and European Individualism — JJJOZ Korean gwangyejuui is consistently translated as collectivism in Western scholarship — a translation that is approximately correct about behaviour and entirely wrong about the underlying logic. Collectivism subordinates the individual to the group. Gwangyejuui does something more radical: it argues that the individual, as a…