Korea has a short history in Democracy. The most decisive factor which disturbs the development of democracy is lack of democracy consciousness.
Dasan's legal thought is that propulsion of legal administration and criminal law among kingdom system makes modernization. Dasan’s three books(Kyung se you pyo, Mok min sim seo, Hum hum sin seo) analyze Korean unreasonable thought and propose proper counterplan. The book ‘Kyung se you pyo’ is composed of the reorganization of national organization, improvement of personal affairs, establishment of finances, and development of economy. His book ‘Mok min sim seo’ is written that he presented the present administration policy after observing desolation of country and impoverished life of the people. ‘Hum hum sin seo’ grasped the real cases of Korea and China. In confucian society, a realist Dasan estimated heriditary monarch system nagatively, and protected election monarch system. Dasan emphasized politics in the first consideration of people.