China's Influence On Korea

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overlordship but preserving its independence. Koreans also adopted
the Confucian emphasis on the family as the foundation of the state.
Although Koreans adapted and modified Chinese ideas. For example, they
adapted the Chinese civil service examination to reflect their own system
of inherited ranks. In China, even a peasant could win political influence
by passing the exam. In Korea, only aristocrats were permitted to take the
test.

During the Koryo age, Buddhism reached its greatest influence in
Korea. Korean scholars wrote histories and poems based on Chinese models,
while artists created landscape paintings following Chinese principles.
Koreans used woodblock printing from China to produce a flood of Buddhist
texts. Later, Korean inventors made movable metal type to print large
numbers of books. Koreans improved on other Chinese inventions. They
learned to make porcelain from China, but then perfected techniques of
making celadon ware with an unusual blue-green ...

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