all I have to say is if Spartan's version of Korean history is correct, why were the Japanese so nice to the Koreans?
Did they get their fill simply from the raping and massacring of (conservative estimates) tens of thousands of Chinese?
oh, and let's not forget the biological warfare experiments too...
Did they get their fill simply from the raping and massacring of (conservative estimates) tens of thousands of Chinese?
oh, and let's not forget the biological warfare experiments too...
Quoting AmericantekDislikedTalk to some Koreans who lived through it. The Japanese atrocities were well documented, not only in Korea but all throughout asia. They did take sex slaves, a commonly used Korean swear word references women who were taken by Japanese and later returned dishonored (Hwang-nyo). Yes, Korea was less modern than Japan (they were known as the hermit kingdom) but modernizing a country doesn't give one the right to destroy its culture. Koreans were forced to learn and speak only Japanese during this time, in school, on official documents, and thus many older Koreans are fluent at Japanese yet hate the language.
Koreans freaked out a few years ago because a nationally used Japanese text book claimed things along the lines of what you are saying, the colonization was good for korea, etc. In reality, what happened to korea was horrible - I know, I've been there, I talked to plenty of elder Koreans who could literally show me their scars from being beaten for not speaking Japanese.
What Japan did for them? Your view is so ignorant - Japan ransacked the place, everything from looting amethyst mines to destroying nearly every historical building in the country (try finding a building in Korea that was built before the Japanese got there, its tough), I don't know where you are coming off with this idea that the Japanese some how did Korea a favor but you are way off base. As for modernizing Korea, the US did a lot more towards that end during and after the Korean war than the Japanese ever did. Koreas real modernization/industrialization happened during the 70's though, thats another story.
As far as the dates you are citing, I don't have time to drag into a detailed history lesson with precise dates. This is a trading forum and I was simply outlining the fact that the Japanese and Korea will almost always be on different sides of the same political issues. Do you know what Dok-do is? Probably not! There isn't much point in debating about something that you obviously have such a limited knowledge and perspective on. Get back to tradingIgnored