The Modern Korean: Looks - Page 27

On March 22 2012 02:29 rotinegg wrote:

So this is just the korean side of the story, and there may be the other side of the story, so I hope nobody will be offended by what im about to write. This also in no way represents the entire population of Korea, but it holds true for the large majority.

Our hatred for japan mainly stems from historical reasons: japan occupied korea for abt 35 years starting in 1910, which ended with their surrendering to the Allied forces during ww2. They fucked with koreans during that regime big time, telling guys to cut their hair (confucian ideology prohibited mangling the body your mother gave you, including hair, so it was a BIG deal) and change their last names japanese style (창씨개명). There were rapes, massacres, pillages throughout the regime, and during ww2 they forced korean guys to be the japanese army's meatshield, while the women were sent as sex slaves. They were treated like shit, being raped, tortured, and finally killed when they were injured enough to be deemed useless (=if the sex slave was too 'loose' to provide adequate services anymore). They aborted babies by puncturing the womb from the stomach and the slaves were forced to relieve dozens of soldiers daily. There are also other horror stories such as being forced to eat the remains of each other's corpses, which you can find on google in your own time. The biggest thing is we believe the japanese govt never truly apologized for their behavior during ww2, nor were the high ranking officials during ww2 ever tried in court as war criminals. This is in contrast to Germany, which sentenced high ranking Gestapo officers as war criminals. To add insult to injury, there's a faction of japanese ppl arguing that the so-called sex slaves are making shit up, and were in fact whores that jumped at the first opportunity to expand their clientele internationally, who now want un-warranted compensation for their reckless behavior in the past. Also, Japanese schools once in a while try to sneak in textbooks that use altered versions of history: for example, their narratives oftentimes cast the actions taken by Japan leading up to and during WW2 in a euphemistic light, by only mentioning stuff like 'Japan helped Korea's economic expansion during the early 1900's by implementing a central railway system,' while leaving out facts about the killings, rapes and events such as assassinating our matriarch to put pressure on our ruling class. This gets the old generation pissed because they saw their friends and family killed/raped/tortured with their own eyes during that time, and even younger people like me get riled up as the surviving sex slaves are now poor grandmas who lived an empty shell of a life, shunned by their friends and family, with no husband nor children. Most have passed away, physically and emotionally broken with nobody at the sides of their deathbeds.

As for the chinese, they used to invade us regularly throughout history, and have us send them our produce, our women, etc. We were their stooge for the large part of history, but it's a thing of the past. We don't hate them, nor does our dislike toward the Chinese run anywhere as deep as our hatred towards japan; we just think the chinese are dirty that will do anything for their own betterment. I can't deny that a bit of racism is at play here though.

Those are just the biggest reasons why we don't like Japanese and Chinese people. There are other reasons as well, like Japan arguing that the island of Dokdo (독도) is theirs and stuff, but nothing major. Again, i dont mean to offend anybody, this is just the korean side of the story, no fluff or beating around the bush.