Plus, here is the larger scope of things, in perspective:
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.
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.
Plus, here is the larger scope of things, in perspective:
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.
Anyone here read The Rape of Nanking?
It is time for Korea to put it behind them, not to forget it. The US made allies of Japan after WW2 and Korea should be able to do the same in the face of Chinese militarism.
Can’t we just get along? :)
Yeah but the Koreans also absolutely love Japanese Anime and they seem quite keen on pointing out that the Japanese royal family is vaguely related to Korean nobility.
But yeah calling them “dogs” irregardless of how they act isn’t terribly original.