Posted on 02/11/2018 1:27:21 PM PST by Strac6
NBC has sidelined one of its Olympic analysts for saying that the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula was an important moment in South Korea's economic transformation, drawing swift backlash online.
The analyst, Joshua Cooper Ramo, made the remark during NBC's prime-time telecast of Friday's opening ceremony in pointing out the presence of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
"Every Korean will tell you that Japan is a cultural and technical and economic example that has been so important to their own transformation," Ramo said.
An online petition quickly circulated demanding an apology from NBC. The network apologized formally to the Pyeongchang Olympic organizing committee and anchor Carolyn Manno read a statement on the NBCSN cable channel early Saturday.
"During our coverage of the Parade of Nations on Friday we said it was notable that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made the trip to Korea for the Olympics, 'representing Japan, a country which occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945 but every Korean will tell you that Japan is a cultural, technological and economic example that has been so important to their own transformation,'" Manno said. "We understand the Korean people were insulted by these comments and we apologize."
The petition had racked up more than 10,000 supporters on Sunday.
Ramo, a former journalist at Time magazine, is co-CEO at Kissinger Associates and had been hired temporarily by NBC to bring historical context to its coverage. According to his LinkedIn page, Ramo held a similar role as a "China analyst" during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The network said his assignment at the Olympics is now over.
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And the NBC producers who decide every day to fail to tell the public about the Clinton - DNC - FBI crimes in the 2016 election.... Cover that story? Of course not. They are too busy telling the world about Kanye West or Caitlin Jenner's latest utterances.
Trayvon wasn’t Korean, you’re not fooling me.
I don’t get it, where did he say that the Japanese occupation of Korea was a good thing?
All he said is that Korea looked to what Japan did after WWII as an example to grow their economy.
LOL! No, they wouldn't. I can't believe he would say that. There is still hostility to Japan among some in Korea.
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I think the animosity between Japanese and Koreans is over-stated by the media.
Koreans are a tetchy bunch.
Same with that 'dust-up' in Manchuria.
Many colonial enterprises were beneficial in some ways for teh onetime colonies.
IIRC the NBC producer (who edited George Zimmerman’s call) was fired.
“It is nice day. The people are happy.”
Back to you Brent
Maybe China pushed the petition behind the scenes.
The Japanese were there to loot raw materials. They did nothing for Korean industry.
I knew someone who was in Korea immediately after WWII.
His comment about Korean auto imports in the 80s was “When I was there they couldn’t even make a watch.”
I suspect China benefits from Korea and Japan being antagonistic towards each other.
That's not what the announcer was referring to, he was referring to South Korea, after the war. His mistake, I suppose was not making that point clearer.
That was what I got too - it was the POST Imperial Japan that set the example, and I thought by then we were all clear that Japanese people are not inherently bad, the had been ruled by a thuggish cabal who had brainwashed their followers into becoming even bigger thugs.
And many Japanese are angered that Koreans still own some of the best bars in Tokyo, forced on them during the Post-WWII occupation.
Remember, to a Japanese, any other nationality is totally inferior to Japanese. As a Japanese client told me, after he was a bit surprised that we do not have the same attitude, “To many Japanese, a Japanese mass murderer is a better person than a Korean Nobel Prize-winning physician, or any Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, American too.”
But they will have Johnny Weir as a commentator, who was charged with domestic violence for hitting his “Husband” gee NBC, the network that has been trashing Rob Porter, are they fine with hiring people accused of battery
Served 18 months there, the Koreans do not like the Japanese. From 1910-1945 they raped and pillaged Korea.
There are jerks in every country. But I still contend that the vast majority of Koreans and Japanese get along just fine.
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