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Koreans hate Japan, but love to steal their products.
Posted on 05/18/2010 6:03:36 AM PDT by Willie Green
Interesting read, but I’d bet against the guy on at least one trivia item; I doubt if Japan had any “jet fighter” plants in 1944.
Koreans are, understandably, angry with Japan for historical wrongs from 60-100 years ago.
But I can’t understand why Koreans have any positive feelings for China at all. China is the only prop supporting the wretched Kim regime, and does so because it wants a divided Korea and a pliant, dependent buffer state on its border.
One could argue that the sum and length of the abuses suffered by the North Koreans (and for which China bears a great responsibility) over the past 60 years exceeds what colonial Japan did to Korea.
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I can’t see why Koreans have such animosity against Japanese - they steal all of Japan’s products and rename them in Korean...
An Air Force Korean linguist colleague of mine damn near caused an international incident back in 1989 when, after a night of heavy drinking, he insulted a Korean cab driver. He asserted that said cab driver’s grandmother had “swam out to greet the Japanese ships.” That little incident not only got our Group Commander involved, but IIRC, even made it to the Base Commander.
>An Air Force Korean linguist colleague of mine damn near caused an international incident back in 1989 when, after a night of heavy drinking, he insulted a Korean cab driver. He asserted that said cab driver’s grandmother had “swam out to greet the Japanese ships.” That little incident not only got our Group Commander involved, but IIRC, even made it to the Base Commander.
I’m sure this was after the taxi driver took him on a 49 mile detour to his 5 mile trip home.
Interesting read, but I’d bet against the guy on at least one trivia item; I doubt if Japan had any “jet fighter” plants in 1944.
Wikipedia List of jet aircraft of World War II (Japan)
Although not produced in significant quantities, it looks as if the Japanese DID develop some rudimentary jet fighter capability before the end of the war.
Now LG Group is having their products made in China.
Just went through two dehumidifiers, LG and Zenith from Home depot, both made at the same plant in China. Both junk.
Okay, I was wrong. Good thing I didn’t put any money up. :)
Well, yes, the fare was in dispute. The pickup was only about 1/2 mile outside the base, and the kid knew the route home (he wasn't so drunk he couldn't see he was being suckered).
The utterance came after a long exchange of insults, but it really set off the driver. I think that, by the time it was all said and done, the driver was also banned from the base for a while (big loss of revenue for him).
I remember reading awhile back that the Japanese are most closely related biologically to the Koreans.
My old roommate in college was Korean. She was friendly with a Japanese guy in our building and I asked if she would ever go out with him. She said no way, no matter how nice he was. It would insult her mother, whose family endured hardship from the Japanese occupation.
“...... They are kind, polite, and honest and have good, orderly manners. They try to never inconvenience anyone. Compared to their behavior, it seems to me that the Korean people appear rather rough and rustic....”
To say the least.
I think those young women were impressed for other types of service.
>>Well, yes, the fare was in dispute. The pickup was only about 1/2 mile outside the base, and the kid knew the route home (he wasn’t so drunk he couldn’t see he was being suckered).
>>The utterance came after a long exchange of insults, but it really set off the driver. I think that, by the time it was all said and done, the driver was also banned from the base for a while (big loss of revenue for him).
Yeah, Korean taxi drivers are known for their cheatin’ ways. That friend of yours really knows how to insult a Korean.
Plus, here is the larger scope of things, in perspective:
You’d be surprised.
The Nazis shared a lot of technology with the Japanese, including rocket fighters and jet fighters. The Japanese may not have been able to produce a jet fighter, but you can be certain that they tried really hard. They attempted to produce copies of the Me-262 and Me-163. They also had a home-grown design, the J7W2 Shinden.
What about seaweed crackers ?
When we would go to Japan for R&R the Japanese girls would ask if the Korean girls were any good and one thing you didn’t say was yes.
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