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Recent territorial problems between Korea and Japan arouse people's interest in Daema island(對馬島). It is located between Korea and Japan so this zone has both Korean characteristics and Japanese characteristics as well. Chosun dynasty has territorial rights on Daema island but the pirates who lived there pillaged Chosun land. They were Japanese but they didn't follow the rules of Japanese government. Because they got expelled from the main land. From this fact, we can infer that Daema island was not belong to both countries. Recent relationships between Korea and Japan is quite similar to that of former Chosun and Japan, Chosun and Daema island. Apart from the circulation of history, it is meaningful to verify through the historical investigation. Sometimes territorial rights does not matter but the people who lived there is more important to dominium of land. According to the poetry and prose of the former Chosun dynasty, literary circles's recognition about territorial rights on Daema island seems to be in a period of transition. They knew Daema island was Chosun's territory but they got a tacit consent on the Japanese pirate raiders who lived there and pillaged Chosun land. They didn't think that it would be useful to expel the pirates and keep the island because Daema island had a slight geopolitical importance for them. They were under the influence of a foreign policy of that times which based on Sung Confucianism. It founded on self-control, rule over a people, faithfulness, sincerity. It was mainly focused on conciliation and appeasement through literature rather than conquest through military arts because virtue-possessed government which followed the principles of royalty was the center of Confucianism. But Chosun's appeasement policy about Daema island became the cause of trouble which were the hotbed of Japanese various kinds of vice. So Chosun dynasty suffered from Japanese pirate raiders' pillage for about two hundred years of the former term.