Claim. Korea is positioned in the providence as Asia’s Italian peninsula — a peninsular civilization where the Vatican-shaped failures of Rome must be re-attempted and indemnified, with the surrounding Pacific (like the Mediterranean) playing the female partner.
Elaboration. SMM makes the structural parallel explicit: “Situated on the Mediterranean Sea, Rome was a powerful state that enjoyed a one thousand-year history … The Mediterranean Sea and Rome are the like the union between a woman and a man, the union between convex and concave. The Korean peninsula is surrounded by Japan in that kind of position, centering on the Pacific civilization on a global level. It is exactly the same. That location is not Indonesia or Singapore” (1.2. The role of the peninsular civilization from the Principle perspective, 259-249, 1994.4.10). And the restoration task is inherited from Rome’s failure: “In what kind of position is the Korean peninsula? It occupies the same position as Rome. It is in the same position as the Roman Vatican … the time for the final destination of culture is coming, a culture that can represent the Papal realm that influenced the world centering on the Roman Vatican and Italian peninsula” (168-312, 1987.10.1). The peninsula-and-sea pairing is reproduced in the Far East as in the Mediterranean.
See also. csg-rome-failed-to-unify-the-world-through-christianity · csg-korea-as-adam-nation-japan-as-eve-nation · csg-korean-peninsula-is-encapsulation-of-the-world