What's your genius interpretation of the issue?
“The Koreans have never liked the Japanese”
That is a lie. Koreans and the Japanese were close just before the Meji Restoration. Once Japan wanted to establish itself as a great power to waive off western encroachment, they then rapidly westernized themselves and their military, and copied the very gun boat diplomacy that was used on them to target Korea, much to their surprise, and afterwards Koreans considered the Japanese to be western traitors because they did nothing to provoke them.
Obviously Korea had a hard existence as a colony of Japan up until 1945.....but goodness knows why they aren’t big fans of them outside of a counterbalance with China?
And if you are clueless of the millions the Japanese killed in China in the 30s and 40s, then you ought to spend some time reading more and not wave it off as “those darn commies just want to ignore their own screw ups”.
The average person with living memory of that time would totally be amused to listen to you tell them that the Rape of Nanking or the “comfort women” of Korea are just a big whatever, because they supposedly are mad about Japan’s ethnic makeup and immagration policy.
Japan got off real easy for the brutal way they treated much of E. Asia, and they utterly refuse in most cases to act like anything other than victums themselves or play stupid, mainly because in most cases it isnt taught.
If you think that doesn’t rub its neighbors the wrong way, then you are mistaken.