Why Japanese (and not Koreans) won 2 Nobel prizes for literature

If only there were a Nobel Prize for Nationalist Bullshit.

Actually after thinking about this for a minute maybe he is right. Maybe he only sounds like a racist duchebag because it’s so hard to translate Korean into English.

These nationalist Koreans are hilarious. Every time I hear something like this in Japan, I just imagine what it would be like if I were in Korea, and everything is fine.

This type of racist BS is all too common in Korea. Try walking down the streets of Seoul with your Korean girlfriend, and see what kind of looks you get.

I don’t know what kind of teaching they do in Korea, but do you think they were raised to think that way perhaps? I mean, I literally laughed when I saw the title of this post and it’s kind of depressing to think some people are like this… I’m born Korean and raised in the USA, and I gotta say, I love Japanese culture. So when I see this type of people (like, the guy in the video) it really makes me sad…

Korea has been walked over and thoroughly shagged by every country in the region (including themselves) for so long they have a genuine complex about it.

Korea and Japan have strikingly similar cultures.
Haven’t you heard:

Japanese is the most difficult language in the world, in fact it’s so difficult that no foreigner could possibly ever learn to speak it properly.

And Japanese has a much larger vocabulary than any other language in the world, according to ことばの知識百科, published by 三省堂 in 2007. Chapter 5 of this supposed encyclopedia of knowledge, (entitled, 日本語の語彙の特色) says in part that,
「一般に、日本語は外国語に比べて語彙が多い。」Among the incredible claims this book makes is that it takes a vocabulary of 10,000 words to understand 90% of the language, while in English or Spanish the number is 3,000, and the French get along with a mere 2,000.

Japan and Korea are very similar countries. They are about as different as England and France: they seem in many ways to be opposites on the surface, but when it comes to their cultural and intellectual heritage, value system, fundamental beliefs, and culture, they are strikingly similar.

Actually, “baito” (or arbaito) comes from the German arbeit, meaning work.

English contains many loan words such as pajamas and ‘salaryman’, derived from the Japanese ‘sarariman’, derived from the English ‘salary’ and ‘man’, derived from the Latin ‘salus’ meaning salt.

English also accomodates foreign words which express concepts which are intelligible to English speakers but for which there are no existing English words. ‘Schadenfreude’ and ‘Joie de vivre’ are examples.

I am sure other languages are equally adaptable and expressive.

It would be useless for the Koreans to try to promote themselves for a Nobel prize for literature since one of the rules of acceptance is that you can’t put yourself forwards. Also, works nominated for political or nationalistic reasons are excluded.

However, the works included can be in any language understood by the Swedish Academy committee members, and if suitable translations are not available they can be made. If it is claimed that Korean is such a complex and beautiful language that it cannot be adequately translated into any other language, that would seem to be an insult to the rest of the world. (It also makes one wonder how any foreigners ever learn Korean.)

Let us hope that some non-Korean literati will discover some Korean literature worth nominating.

Of course it is obvious that the point of the speech was to snipe at the Japanese out of jealousy rather than to deliberately insult everyone who isn’t Korean.

Ummm, has anyone actually questioned whether the translation subtitles are accurate at all, instead of taking it at face value? We should be aware of all the facts and whether the translation is accurate before casting judgment and whatnot about what he said.

This is one of the reasons why I don’t hang around with or make friends with Koreans and Chinese and I’m Japanese, in my experience you meet them and I’ve got 2 groups for them,
1. The ones that absolutely Hate Japan and Japnese everything. and 2. The ones that want to make friends with you because they’re into Japanese pop culture.

The 2nd category people made me feel like they wanted to be friends not because of Who I am as a person, but rather What I am so they have someone to just talk to about pop culture.

Delutioned Koreans live in both the North and the South pasrt of the peninsular. Let me translate it into the correct romanisation of Hanguk-mal. Pyongshin seki dul, i nom kate, chot manhi mokulgoya. Korea is being ruined by these fake, pyongshin ball-less wankers. Shipal him and his high horse.

Normal Koreans wouldn’t give a damn about this guy and his point of view. He probably wants to get some kind of fame or use this to make some money or start a business with this. Don’t think that this one dude represents us all. hehe

Korean nationalism isn’t as strong as Indian nationalism in my experience. +100 years of persecution inside India makes things worse for enticing blind nationalism than a 36 years of persecution inside Korea.

Japanese people should have common sense first when they need to criticize Koreans. Japanese are as bad as Koreans, perhaps worse in some cases (Like their unquestionable blind devotion to America. Thank you, decades of LDP in the Tokyo Diet).

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Japan needs more Nobel prizes! Does anyone have any spare nukes lying around?

Agreed – but please don’t feed the troll.