Though having adopted the same Chinese Confucian culture, ancient Korea and Japan, due to the adoption of different cultural subjects, formed totally opposite cultural characteristics. In ancient Korea, Confucian culture gradually became mature ideology come from a conceptual thought to be an institutional existence. It represents the characteristics of systemization, idea-orientation, and exclusiveness. However, in ancient Japan, the abstract, conceptual, insubstantial parts of Confucian culture disappeared, or was converted into a concrete, practical, operable pattern, which characterizes the non-systemization, operation-oriented and compatibility.
