• hoodlem@hoodlem.me
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    There is no Hiroshima scene in the movie, anon, unless I somehow completely missed it? The detonation shown is the first test bomb and was in New Mexico.

    Anyway, I guess point is Koreans hate the Japanese or something? Is that a thing I didn’t know about?

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      Yeah, it’s not a great relationship.

      During the colonial period, more than 100,000 Koreans served in the Imperial Japanese Army. The service of these Korean men was forced upon them.

      Approximately 200,000 Korean children (predominantly ages 12–17) were also sent forcefully as “comfort women” at the war frontlines to serve the Imperial Japanese Army as sex slaves.

      In 2013, polls reported that 94% of Koreans believe Japan “Feels no regret for its past wrongdoings,” while 63% of Japanese state that Korean demands for Japanese apologies are “Incomprehensible”

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Japan–Korea_relations

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        Yeah, it was attempted cultural genocide. Some of the older generations have a Japanese name from when parents were forced to give their babies Japanese names and not speak Korean.

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          Y’know what’s hilarious though?

          The current South Korean government is a direct descendant from the dictatorial regime implemented by the US after the Korean War. That regime was mostly made up from former Japanese colonial rulers, Koreans who were cozy to Japanese rule.

          So the current political, cultural and economic situation there is based on American and Japanese rule and culture.

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        Good lord, never knew. 94%, that means that virtually everyone walking down the street has a problem with the Japanese on some level.

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      Japan annexed Korea back around WWI - WWII, and committed a fair amount of atrocities. I believe that the older generations of Korea do not like Japan, understandably. I don’t think it’s common for younger Koreans to share the same sentiment of the older generation

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        It might be filtering down to at least some youth by word of mouth and entertainment. I read comics from Japan, Korea, and China, and it’s interesting how they display political rivals. Japan tends to use China, America, and Russia primarily, with America often being not totally an enemy but an arrogant ally. Korea tends to have Japan, North Korea, China, then America playing a similar role. The Chinese ones I do read are often more inwardly focuses, but I have seen America, India, and… hmm I can’t recall if I’ve seen much others, seems to be more about oppressive rich families and regional strife.

        This is all subjective based on the stuff I’ve read of course. In I’m not sure whether you’d call it positive or just being factual, in the Japanese manga Hikaru no Go, China and Korea are both rivals, with Japan being third place among them. Still, since it’s Go/igo/baduk/weiqi and not serious international matters, it was more about pride and such. They do have a chapter with Koreans living in Japan having some bitterness towards Japanese opinion of them. Mahouka Kouka also had a section where Americans who grew up in Japan on military bases felt racist pressure from Japanese, but that work also pretty much ignored Korea and had it absorbed into China as a villian.

        I digress. I just wanted to day entertainment is great at passing down grudges and prejudice, and the media I’ve seen still has a lot of it.

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      Anyway, I guess point is Koreans hate the Japanese or something? Is that a thing I didn’t know about?

      Oh boy, you’re in a for a wild ride, my friend!