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Poll: Chinese dislike South Korea more than Japan

Photo: A South Korean protester rips up a Chinese flag

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The Chosun Ilbo reports that South Korea has outranked Japan as China’s least favorite neighboring country:

In the survey of 12,000 Chinese people over the past four months by the International Herald Leader, a newspaper published by China’s official Xinhua News Agency, 40.1 percent of respondents said they dislike South Korea the most. Japan came in second place with 30.2 percent of the vote. The most-liked neighbor was Pakistan with 13.2 percent followed by Russia and Japan, the newspaper said.

31 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - July 15, 2008 at 2:50 pm

Categories: Anti-Japan Tags: china, japan, Korea

shin

good news for us…
http://chirimotsumoreba.net Jordan

How the hell could you dislike South Korea and like Pakistan? East Asia: it boggles the mind.

Tomo Huang

South Korea has many things to dislike about them… Plus China is rising in power fast and to them, South Korea are just 2nd class people who are obsessed with surgery

helical

South Korea’s failing is that they decided to deal with China in the same way as they’ve been doing with Japan.
Browbeating-chest-pounding-flag-burning/eating-bombastic rhetoric only keeps on working (or maybe I should say does not significantly affect negatively) when it’s used against a mostly apathetic populace like the Japanese.
Gojira

Wait, what? Japan is both the second most-hated and the third least-hated?

helical

Survey: “So do you like or dislike Japan?”
Chinese: “YES”

kenji

a triangle of hate…well im really not surprised. east asians will hate each other for awhile until the memories of WWII are forgotten.

Brian

A bit pitiful, since the West has totally forgiven Germany. Twice.

Lorenz

You call the Versailles Treaty a sign of forgiving? You must be blind, it was the reason modern germany ever started a war (once, not twice). The nice forgiving west should be careful that it will be forgiven for the services it’s doing to the world. Germany proved what can happen if you try to push a proud country where you think it belongs. Of course it only proves that history is written by the victorious, not the righteous.

http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com Brian

Just wanted to point out that the article is eight months old. Doesn’t make it any less . . . well, telling, but still.
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I REALLY want to edit that photo up there with the caption,

“We are what we eat.”

In fact…

http://victorymanual.com/2008/07/15/this-is-what-i-think-of-you-china/
folosa

30.2% dislike Japan in CHina. Thats about the same as how Europeans feel about USA or slightly less. UK which is known to be USAs closest allie in Europe but over 50% of Britons look at US in a positive way. It all goes down hill from there where ever in Europe you are. The relationship between Japan. China could be compared with US, Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Americanism
folosa

I meant to say slightly over 50% of Britons look at US in a negative way and from there it goes down hill. With a new president this could ofcource change.

“Listen every society has it’s good and its bad. To say a whole nation of people are good or bad is pure ignorance.”

Some countries have more idiots than others though. A key barometer for me is democracy. If you have an idiot running a country chances are high that there are lots of idiots in that country. In CHina it is hard to tell because there is no freedom of speech and democracy. The people are oppressed. SInce the people are oppressed by the government it is in the interest of the government that the people use their energy and anger on someone else than their own government.
chinese dude

so james, whats your opinion, being chinese yourself?
ronin

i am an american, and i was wondering if anyone could tell me which two of the three cultures are most similar in general? chinese/japanese? korean/japanese? korean/chinese? i would really like to know, and why if possible.

helical

It’s all a matter of perspective and what aspect of “culture” you’re talking about.

Japan and Korea are questionably successful modern capitalist and (supposedly) democratic “western” societies, meaning many parallels in everyday sensibilities in economy and human rights. The language syntax is strikingly similar, and there are some parallels in vocabulary too. Japan annexed Korea for a couple decades in the last century so and may have influenced Korean culture during that time. They can also be contrasted with China, a nuclear power with regional hegemonic ambitions.

China and Korea were once master and vassal state and connected by land until about a century ago. Their behavior shares a lot of patterns from Japan’s perspective, including placing an inordinate value on history, as well as a culture that is very lax on copying and pirating the work of others. They also seem to be a more passionate group of people than Japan. As much as they hate each other, they seem to put up an alliance of convenience when bashing on Japan.

China and Japan were distant master and vassal a millennia and a half ago and still are regional rivals. Japan borrowed a lot of advanced cultural aspects like Buddhism and Kanji from China and used it as a springboard for their own development. They say in those days, the Japanese used to be able to communicate with the Chinese using written dialogue even if the spoken language was completely different.
lauren

Chinese and Japanese are the most similar because the Japanese and Chinese characters are almost the same, because the japanese copied the Chinese writing style. Also japanese and chinese sound the most similar then korean/chinese and korean/japanese.

mozu

I am a fan of this flag eating man. He could be popular among Japanese kids.
DJ

Former South Korean President Syngman Rhee is also responsible for running away during the Korean War.. after declaring to its citizens that Seoul is safe..when they (South Korean armies) bombed Han River.. He should be called “a traitor”, also, a “murderer” of Kim Gu who is a Korean father and long struggle against the Japanese brutal colonial rule therefore he and his wife should be brought to justice… I am sorry but I must say this. enough is enough. Come on..nobody likes war.. please stop it before it is too late
Mister M

Koreans and Japanese are nice people and have many similarities, and I don’t think that both really hate each other because both love to share their stuff togueter, but I cannot tell about Chinese because they don’t have any notion of what is Japan or Korea in reality. That is so true that they tell always the same stupid thing over and over again. you can tell this difference here in Japan.

Even though Koreans are not treated so fairly in Japan and they hate the governments’ decision many times, they use their brain better than Chinese in a way that they will not launch a rock or eggs to a Japanese citizen who do not have anything to do with politician’s poor decision. Chinese come to Japan and they act like they are in their country and show no respect to Japanese culture. Besides that seems to not care about Japanese laws and their citizens. I personally would rather having more Koreans coming to Japan and learn how Japanese are nice and kind, and not the way how Korean and chinese media tell that is based on negative thing about Japan.
raine

wow 12,000 chinese people thats a small percentage of the chinese population and add to that 40.1% of that 12,000 people dislike Korean. What so 40.1% of the 12,000 people represent the whole of the chinese population. ¬¬ what a great way to headline this poll making the chinese look bad.

helical

Uh, statistics doesn’t work like that.
If your sample size is 12000 out of 1.3 billion, then your margin of error is 0.89% with a 95% confidence level.
That means, if this same survey was done 100 times, 95 times out of that, the results are going to fall approximately between 41.0% and 39.2%.

Madhyam

I have a Korean friend. She said that the only solid reason why South Korea is so messed up is:

1. Kim Gu (the Korean “Gandhi” in politics) was assassinated by a Korean associated with American government.
2. Rhee Syngmang became a president for opening ground for pro-American dictatorship that was never democratic for decades.

I can understand why South Koreans don’t even like America in the first place.

Consider that the whole “protest culture” in today’s South Korea is stemmed from anti-American thoughts, not anti-Japan.
Madhyam

Another thing came into my mind: China vs. Japan vs. Korea antagonism has many benefits for the current world power, America. Lack of harmony in some regions in the world brings the current world power’s presence important.
Jeff

Aha, this is funny. Maybe the Chinese are finally waking up to the fact that Koreans are really obnoxiously insecure about their country, being sandwiched between China and Japan for all of its history. I just love it when the Koreans boast that their country is actually “responsible” for the Chinese civilization and blah blah blah, and how the Koreans are the tallest East Asians which they take as the proof their their superiority. Bombast, chest-thumping, idle boasts, and sheer in-your-face attitude tend to get on people’s nerves. If I were the Koreans, I’d be more careful, since there is no ocean between China and Korea. Chihuahuas love to bark, don’t they.
Jeff

Oh, one more thing. My Chinese friends tell me that they mostly don’t like Korean men. The reason? Well, they are wife-beaters, which the Chinese look down upon as the lowest form of cowardice.
kimchee

i am an overseas korean residing somewhere in southeast asia and among the south koreans, the japanese and the chinese I dislike chinese the most, except for my chinese friends. Why? Because chinese who go and stay here are filthy, smell strange and act like they are mildly retarded. They kiss the asses of the locals and steal their technology. Not stereotyping because i know there are nice chinese out there but hate them in general.

The japanese are ok. Very professional and friendly. except for the ones who slaughtered countless non-japanese asians.
http://deleted parkmount

This is a typical smart asx Korean behavior in the above comment. They have no originality and always practice what they call “uriginal bench-marking” (a.k.a. copy-cat). They are singlehandedly most hated people in Asia, possibly in the world as well.
observer

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