5. Conclusion

I have examined the character of Dangjin's trauma with a focus on its background, and have sought to interpret the subsequent culture as trauma. Dangjin, too, is once again coming to life as its channels of communication with China open up; yet the continuing instability of East Asia poses a threat to this new opportunity.

The dream of the Baekje remnants of today, who dreamed of the revival of the Ye-Maek people, was revived in East Asia's modern economy. Yet after China's development, the modern East Asians of today, who have failed to interpret the traumas of the past, have come to the point where the invasion of Taiwan approaches its countdown and the fate of nations follows upon whom they will support in the event of a war between Taiwan and China. Now the time has come for East Asia to build a new cultural system that revives the tradition of the cyclical thought of the East Asian Ye-Maek people. This can begin with the resolution of long-standing trauma. It is assumed that East Asia lacks a commercial culture compared with Western capitalism, but the history of the Ye-Maek people shows, on the contrary, that the origin of Western commerce lies in East Asia.

When one looks at Dangjin, one is reminded of Tsushima. If one were to choose the representative regions bearing the trauma of East Asia, they would seem to be Tsushima in Japan, Taiwan in China, and Dangjin in Korea.^[73] If the overcoming of East Asia's trauma now begins, I look forward to the day when the classical culture of East Asia—reduced to a third-generation Black culture—will once again be regarded as a core driving force.