Comments on: Koreans speak on Japan (Video)

By: Scholar

Scholar — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:24:45 +0000

Video has been made private, can’t watch it.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:31:37 +0000

I’m not a “Japanphile” but these two stupid bitches should be chained and put out back like a couple of rabid dogs. What would you expect with “Sucktube?”

By: WujouMao

WujouMao — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:41:37 +0000

from the time i was in south korea having a walk around MBC ‘dae jung Geum theme park, pratically all the visiters were japanese women from late 20′s till 50′s. they didnt seem to dislike korea.

By: James

James — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:42:22 +0000

jost:

If someone is a Korean American, as the girls in this video likely are, there’s about a 99% chance they are from the South.

By: jost

jost — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:16:02 +0000

passin’ by makes a valid point. “Chosenjin” is the only appropriate term in this instance since we don’t know which side of the 38 parallel the ladies are from.

By: James

James — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:30:56 +0000

David: Don’t make the ridiculous claim that the Japanese government has never apologized:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan

By: David

David — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:27:32 +0000

Maybe an official Japanese government apology for war crimes would allow these girls to be open to the Japanese people. But even so, if our not hating an entire race must be based on a government’s action rather than our own realization of the need for forgiveness, then there’s not much hope for this old world.

By: Brent

Brent — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 04:50:16 +0000

I’ve got a lot of Korean American friends who are pretty similar to this. I don’t think they hate Japanese People, they just have a collective memory that won’t allow them to forgive Japan.

The fact of the matter is, if you’re raised in a racist family, you’re gonna grow up racist, or have some major battles to overcome when you’re older.

By: Ponta

Ponta — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:31:44 +0000

“I think Japanese live with the darker spots in their history a lot more than people from the Americas are forced to. ”
Some Koreans points out “the darker spots” in US relations with Korea in history such as the Nonguri massacre, and how the US sold Korea to Japan etc.
Probably do Americans live with the darker spots in their history a lot more than people from Japanese are forced to?

By: DickMcVengeance

DickMcVengeance — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:46:40 +0000

From what I know, I haven’t run into many Koreans who hate the Japanese. In fact, there were plenty of Korean kids in my Japanese language and History of Modern Japan classes, and they weren’t anti-Japanese at all.

CKX: I realize that true feelings come out when you’re drunk, it’s just that logic seems to go out the window and random prejudice comes out.

By: CKX

CKX — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:42:12 +0000

DickMcVengeance: It’s easiest to express your true feelings when people are drunk/tipsy.
I had a look at the japanese comments, some of it is even worse than the stuff in the video. Someone’s complaining about those rich zainichi sending their kids to expensive christian school’s in LA to learn English, wtf?
I can’t really blame Korean or Japanese people for being racist , because they usually don’t know better, but these two clearly have spend most of their life in north america and should know better.
Does anyone know whether this is a common way of thinking among Koreans in north-america?

By: Caio

Caio — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:31:38 +0000

Meh. Japan did a lot of wrongs, back in the day, but most Japanese alive today were born after the fact.

I think Japanese live with the darker spots in their history a lot more than people from the Americas are forced to. Or people from Europe. The Japanese at their hight were rather typical of the Great Powers of the day. The Imperial Age was a terrible time to be alive.

The ‘all Koreans hate Japanese’ thing is a bit much. When I was a teenager, my family was a homestay for ESL students from around the world. A lot of the Koreans were like that (but not so stupid sounding), but a lot of the Koreans made friends with Japanese students.

Hopefully, as time goes by, the younger generations will be able to leave the past behind.

By: passin' by

passin' by — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:14:09 +0000

Exactly how is “chosenjin” NOT appropriate in this case?
Can’t use “kankokujin” or “kankokukei”-
we don’t know whether they’re originally from
North or South Korea.

By: kazu

kazu — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:41:18 +0000

wow.

people who dont know jack about their own history should not speak out.

i love how grandparents and parents love to corrupt their children with hate. outcome is people like these idiots.

By: Occidentalism

Occidentalism — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:35:58 +0000

[...] HT to James at JapanProbe. [...]

By: DickMcVengeance

DickMcVengeance — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:28:22 +0000

Wow, that seems extremely excessive. They also seem to have never followed the history of Korea and Japan. Just look at some of the stuff by Jon Carpenter. He gives a very different picture of Korea and Japan. In all honesty, I think these girls must’ve been a wee bit tipsy when they recorded this.