Comments on: A monument to Russian sailors to go up in Inch’eon? http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/02/04/a-monument-to-russian-sailors-to-go-up-in-incheon/ Korea... in Blog Format Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:34:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Daniel Mckellen http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/02/04/a-monument-to-russian-sailors-to-go-up-in-incheon/#comment-1819 Daniel Mckellen Sat, 06 Mar 2004 09:22:54 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=509#comment-1819 Gerry Bevers, can you please stop taliking about Koreans in a one-sided way? Koreans, while not exactly under Japanese rule yet during the Russo-Japanese War, were quite helpless. The council of pro-Japanese ministers held more power than the Korean emperor himself. So, Koreans did not actually support the Japanese front, but they were rather enrolled into doing so. Also, Koreans, while often over-emphasizing their own views, are generally far more historically accurate than their Japanese neighbors. The view that most Americans like Gerry Bevers have about Korea is becuase of Japanese lies written in Japanese textbooks and overseas. Japanese government and education officials only talk about the techological advances and the railroads they made in Korea, and fail to mention that those railroads were used to ferry Koreans to camps to work as sex slves or forced laborers. They also claim Dokdo as Japanese territory, while the islets were actually part of Korea ever since the sixth century, when the Korean Shilla Dynasty annexed it, which happened even before the Japanese became aware of the islets. Gerry Bevers, please continue your disastrous efforts to clear up history and learn to distinguish a national government from the average citizen, especially when you talk about historical politics. Gerry Bevers, can you please stop taliking about Koreans in a one-sided way?
Koreans, while not exactly under Japanese rule yet during the Russo-Japanese War, were quite helpless. The council of pro-Japanese ministers held more power than the Korean emperor himself. So, Koreans did not actually support the Japanese front, but they were rather enrolled into doing so.
Also, Koreans, while often over-emphasizing their own views, are generally far more historically accurate than their Japanese neighbors. The view that most Americans like Gerry Bevers have about Korea is becuase of Japanese lies written in Japanese textbooks and overseas. Japanese government and education officials only talk about the techological advances and the railroads they made in Korea, and fail to mention that those railroads were used to ferry Koreans to camps to work as sex slves or forced laborers. They also claim Dokdo as Japanese territory, while the islets were actually part of Korea ever since the sixth century, when the Korean Shilla Dynasty annexed it, which happened even before the Japanese became aware of the islets.
Gerry Bevers, please continue your disastrous efforts to clear up history and learn to distinguish a national government from the average citizen, especially when you talk about historical politics.

]]> By: Gerry Bevers http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/02/04/a-monument-to-russian-sailors-to-go-up-in-incheon/#comment-1818 Gerry Bevers Thu, 05 Feb 2004 19:00:03 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=509#comment-1818 From what I have read, as many as 170,000 Koreans volunteered to fight on the side of Japan against Russia during the Russo-Japanese war, so this whole monument idea seems very strange to me. It seems like another attempt to try to rewrite history. I am curious about how the monument's inscription will read? Maybe something like this? "This monument is dedicated to the brave Russian sailors with whom many Koreans fought against in the Russo-Japanese war. We are confident that if those Koreans had not been deceived by the Japanese, they would have fought on Russia's side, instead." From what I have read, as many as 170,000 Koreans volunteered to fight on the side of Japan against Russia during the Russo-Japanese war, so this whole monument idea seems very strange to me. It seems like another attempt to try to rewrite history.

I am curious about how the monument’s inscription will read? Maybe something like this?

“This monument is dedicated to the brave Russian sailors with whom many Koreans fought against in the Russo-Japanese war. We are confident that if those Koreans had not been deceived by the Japanese, they would have fought on Russia’s side, instead.”

]]> By: john http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/02/04/a-monument-to-russian-sailors-to-go-up-in-incheon/#comment-1817 john Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:57:18 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=509#comment-1817 well, it's about time the russian fleet was good for something on the sunny side of the waves!!! well, it’s about time the russian fleet was good for something on the sunny side of the waves!!!

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