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Only a worshiper of Japanese colonialism would care to call him an assassin

The only reason this man is famous today is because he assassinated a Japanese leader. I don’t see anything wrong with using the word “assassin” to refer to someone who carried out a political assassination.

The word does not pass judgment on his political motivations, it just identifies this man as someone who carried out an assassination.

Dictionary.com:

assassin
n.
1. One who murders by surprise attack, especially one who carries out a plot to kill a prominent person.

If mockery and sticking fingers in wounds is such a negative, perhaps you should mention that to the folks using the man who assassinated a Japanese PM as a mascot character?

James, this man speaks the truth! You shall start by making 10 “I’m sorry for what I did”-posts and give Dr.Yu all your assets.

That definition fits exactly what Ahn Jung-geun did. To a T. Therefore he was, by definition, an assassin. Negative connotation? Probably, but I have yet to see any word describing a person specifically as one who killed another that had a nice, positive connotation.

“The word carries overwhelmingly negative connotation, especially in a form of noun. Your choice of the word, knowing full well of the history of the two country is distasteful at best.”

Hahaha, a negative connotation? Yes, because most cultures find killing other people, killing other people by means of surprise or stealth, and killing prominent figures as being BAD THINGS.

That doesn’t mean most cultures don’t also have exceptions for these things (e.g. times of war, etc…) but you have to realize how ironic it is that you’re accusing the literal description of this man’s actions as having “negative connotations” in (haha) his defense!

James didn’t say that he was a bad man. He didn’t say that what he did was bad. All he did was say he killed another guy, and it’s pretty hilarious that you’ve responded by saying that it sounds like what this guy did was pretty negative!

pixel_bomber,

I honestly don’t understand why some people are freaking out about this post.

I suggest you not to try to understand it.

//Korean author, Mr. Kim Wan Sop who wrote the book Shinnichiha no benmei would say the same thing, don’t exaggerate the claim of ‘victimhood’. The guy went to jail in Korea for slandering the dead. Also take a look at youtube video from cirrostratus2 titled- Why does the Korean tell a lie?//

I was an expat in South Korea when I got to know his contributes.

He was a decent writer for magazines until he started to write controversial stuffs. He first got huge trouble from his writings that were criticizing the South Korean government. THEN AFTERWARDS he started to write stuffs criticizing South Korea in the point of favoring Japan.

Consider that his energy is more directed towards criticizing Korea instead of praising Japan…… He’s more close to an anti-South-Korea, not a pro-Japan per se.

Do you know why South Koreans don’t take him seriously in the long run? Because he’s not truly pro-Japan in the first place.

//The elite is brainwashing the masses with anti- Japanese propaganda, while they are reaping all the ‘benefits’ as a willing collaborator.//

In fact you have to blame the American government on this one.

The majority of Korean politicians (obviously almost all of them are Chinilpa descendants) is taking a wrongful advantage of nationalism. And a lot of Korean citizens don’t take their politicians seriously in reality.

That’s because of pro-Americanism still going on in the National Assembly of Korea. Japanese people need to learn the fact that there is a serious competition going on between pro-Americanism and pro-Japanism in 80-90% of the Korean politics.

You want Korea to acknowledge more positively about Japan, you say? Then hate the American political presence in South Korea. It’s that simple.

So you put emphasis on the motivation of the character (from a distinctly Korean subjective standpoint) to distinguish Ahn Jung Gun as an “independence fighter” above Japanese soldiers who you consider to be all just criminals.
But then you disregard the commonly accepted implication that the word “assassin” carries in motive or methods, lumping professional soldiers fighting a war to a lone civilian acting on his own beliefs in the same camp and labeling them all assassins. Putting aside what is right or wrong, waging war in the conventional sense is hardly “assassination”.

I hope it’s not too insulting when I say your comment sounds a bit contradictory and confused.
I think checking the meaning that people give to the word “assassin” first would put you on the same page as most everyone else here.

And by the way, the Thousand Year Kingdom is what Nazi Germany called itself along with “Third Reich” and has little to do with Imperial Japan.

Furthermore, assassination of an important political figure could be considered a specious pretense for starting war, at least, from the viewpoint of international (actually, the great powers’) standard in the mid or late 19th century where murder of Christian missionaries could have triggered off invasion.

//The weird nationalism like this is perhaps a result of the education during Roh Moo-hyun’s administration.//

More like since Park Chung-hee to today.

Remember, mainstream Korean nationalism is not “true” nationalism.