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Yankee go home. (and please, take me with you)

WJK:
“We Koreans had to serve several foreign masters ever since the Kims ?橫united?? Korea. (Was this even a unification? It looked more like present day South Korea)China, Russia, Japan, and the United States.Best master of these was the US.”

WJK, How has Korea ever served the US as a “foreign master”? This is the kind of vague claim that cannot be debunked simply because it cannot be supported. What evidence is there for such a claim other than the writer’s emotion?

The reason we Koreans foster irrational resentments is that we hold unsupportable emotion-driven opinions to be facts, when in fact, they are empty rhetoric.

The reality is that we are responsible for our own destiny. The choices we make are ours.

If our leaders are adept at using the generosity of greater powers like the US to help us, then that is to our credit. If they instead look to alienate powerful allies in the name of “independence”, it is to our detriment. Attitudes like yours disempower us, set us on a backwards course and have historically made us ripe for foreign invasion from China and Japan.

Wake up, Korea. Stop bitching and emoting and start taking personal responsibility for your future.

–Korea agreed to that in 1965, because it had to. Japan is South Korea’s 2nd largest economic trading partner. Japan has also served as Korea’s source of technology in the past, along with the US. Mitsubishi taught Hyundai how to make cars, from outdated models it no longer had use for. Basically, to my memory, South Korea has been behind Japan, technologically in every category, until very recently. I think now they are on par or are leading in LCD’s, cell phones, and memory. Very recently though. Everything else was a rehearsed copying of what the Japanese have already done, what the US has done, etc.
What else was Korea to do, except be outwardly friendly and grind a sword within? I can’t imagine today’s South Korea economically, if it didn’t normalize relations with Japan in 1965.

Within two days after the above letter hit “Agora,???? an online forum for public debate on Daum.net, one of the most popular portal sites in Korea, on March 21, nearly 310,000 people read it and hundreds of them left comments, ranging from one-line ripples to lengthy discourses.

“What do you think about the maltreatment, contempt and violence suffered by Koreans in Japan? Have you thought about the Koreans in Japan before talking about your Japanese classmate????? asked the writer of the most-accessed comment by Daum users. More than 7,400 people read the argument in one day.

“I hope Yoko??s tears mean more than simple resentment. I hope that she, though still young, will try to understand why Koreans are this upset about the Japanese measure and correct her historical perceptions, if biased. I??ve heard that Germans shed tears out of shame while looking at materials on the Holocaust. A new relationship can come only when the offender thoroughly repents and apologizes,?? another writer said.

The numerous remarks on the letter from Yoko??s friend could be grouped into two: those who believe that Yoko and other ordinary citizens should be discerned from the right-wing Japanese leaders and Shimane officials who promoted “Takeshima Day,???? and those who don??t. Luckily, I could find a statement on Daum that, I think, spoke for the majority of Koreans.

“I feel sorry for Yoko, but don??t think that the teacher is wrong. The nation and the people are the basis of life and culture??? As long as Tokyo doesn??t apologize sincerely, Korea and Japan can??t build a relationship of mutual respect. It is truly sad that individuals have to suffer from bilateral problems, but we can??t avoid it as long as we live in a world where nationality and sovereignty serve as the basic units of international relations.??

For close watchers of the Korea-Japan relationship, the Tokto dispute may look inseparable from other problems that haunt the two countries. Foreign friends often ask me why Koreans are so unforgiving towards Japanese. Some point out that the Korean government agreed to Japanese conditions for diplomatic normalization in 1965. Others warn that Korea won??t gain much by raising its voice against Japan, whose alliance with the United States is stronger than ever.

As far as I understand, Koreans are quick to forgive, probably because they have short memories and warm hearts. I wonder if Koreans would have acted the same way had Japan apologized to them and other Asians as sincerely as Germany did to its
Read this letter of a Korean who claims a Japanese as a friend. With friends like this who needs enemies.

Some funny parts are when the author claims that Koreans are quick to forgive and have short memories. How many koreans still today talk about Hideyoshi? Try 100%.

Korans cannot forgive anything or anybody. Even Roh admits that Japan apologezed, but he used that old korean trick and claimed it was now invlaid. Just like any agreement that gets a Korean signature. Once the Korean feels he must break it.. he does.

Random Walk] A Letter from Yoko’s Friend

By Kim Heung-sook
Freelance Writer

former victims and helped them to forget about all of the atrocities committed. To accept the unfair terms of normalization was a mistake on the part of the then Korean government, the child of a military coup. Japan, for its part, took advantage of the impoverished Korean situation. Some present-day Koreans question whether Japan is willing to rectify what was done unjustly. As is well known, Koreans are not a pragmatic people. They seldom weigh gains and losses when they pursue something. For them, dignity, values, and feelings come first and that??s why they fail to catch up with countries of Homo economicus in affluence.

Japan is again hoped to ponder if it earnestly wants to build a future-oriented relationship with Korea. If the answer is yes, it will have to assist Korea??s recovery from the scars it incurred decades ago. A proper step in that direction may be bidding farewell to Tokto as beautifully as Pablo Neruda parted with “Island???? in his poem: “Goodbye, goodbye, secret island, rose of purification, navel of gold, we return, all of us, to the duties of our mournful professions and occupations. Goodbye, let the great sea protect you from our brutality!????

What was that? More wishful thinking on my part?

Roh Moo Hyun is an odd ball. He’s nuts.

Even though Roh’s an idiot, even he sends troops to whereever they are requested. Gotta be on good terms with your most significant economic trading partner and possibly the only military force that will defend South Korea in case of an invasion.

To me, the biggest difference between Vietnam and South Korea has been trade with the US. Look at Vietnam. They are begging to trade with the US.