Korea, Iran get snippy…

As for Zhang Fei, he uses “Han Cheng” to refer to Seoul. His narrow “New China” education has probably left him with such a poor knowledge of his own language that he believes Han refers to the Han (Chinese) people, and that “Han Cheng” means city of the Chinese. Had he any knowledge of the China of which he claims Korea was a province, he may have understood that Han, in this case, means “great” and that “Han Cheng” simply means capital city. This knowledge may have immunized him from making ridiculous claims about Korea being part of China, unless he believes that Seoul was the capital of some past Chinese empire. The truth is that the rulers of China would violently vomit at such morons, who know so little about Korean and Chinese as to put them in the same category. Anybody with the slightest knowledge of either language would laugh at this suggestion.

Koreans, in the past, revered Chinese culture, and the people who created that culture. Thuggish morons like Zhang Fei, who sadly litter the history of all mankind were never revered by anybody, and the ascendance of such people in China means that no province of China today would wish to remain part of China if it wasn’t for the PLA’s tanks. And certainly, Korea, Japan and Vietnam, which once looked up to China as a paragon of learning and wisdom, look down on its present state, as represented by “nationalists” like Zhang Fei.

This is Korean logic.
no, mr. fei, it is irony, which in this case is an expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning (american heritage dictionary).

you see, i disagree with the sentiments in the poster. by using that image, i am lampooning knee-jerk anti-japanese sentiment. sure, i am not entirely happy with a lot of things coming out of the japanese right and i support the korean government’s claim to the islands (although not the diplomatic war over them), but i think the rok-’n-roh government and a number of social institutions use frustration over that issue to manipulate anti-japanese sentiment for other ends.

i do not think japan is the enemy at all, and i think it is foolish for koreans to demonize japan. that’s why it’s called irony.

She uses Uncle Sam?€™s wartime propaganda to justify Korea?€™s current obsession *today* with what happened 60 years ago.
nope. irony.

The key difference here is that the average American did not know anything about Japan 60 years ago. The idea that American draftees should go forth and fight someone 8000 miles away was like asking them to go fight Martians. This was at a time before airliners, when travelling to the Far East meant going on an ocean liner. This is why Uncle Sam had to put out that propaganda - to get GI Joe to go fight the enemy.
hold on. are you justifying the use of racist imagery like that icon for propaganda purposes, as long as it’s wartime? would such propaganda be okay now in our ‘war on terror’?

The Japanese occupation has been over for 60 years, and the Korean government still wants to psych the average Korean to go fight the Japanese enemy.
when the japanese government (this round started with the japanese ambassador to korea, not the shimane decision) is now re-asserting a claim that was enforced in part because japan had stripped korea of its national sovereignty, it is of little relevance that the war ended sixty years ago. japan still has three major territorial issues arising form its imperial past; this is just one.

but you’re right that they are going down a dangerous road for koreans and japanese if they try to depict japan as an enemy rather than simply an allied country with which the rok has a territorial dispute.

that’s why it’s irony.

And besides if you want to get back at me for the observation I made about you (couple of articles below on this blog) do it in a direct manner. (because I see more and more posters agreeing with me in their opinion about you)

You must be a worshipper of Samgugji (the history of three Chinese kingdoms). Some Koreans use the principles from the book in everyday situations, remembering the strength and the weakness of many characters and situations they faced.

As you wrote, Zhang Fei(Jangbae) was a great warrior who lacked people skills. However, connecting the present Zhang with old historic characters is not warranted. Just because someone’s name is Donald, should we assume he is a quack? It does not make sense. You comment was just an insult and nothing more.

Even though it gave me chuckles, I hate to be the receiving end of such namecalling. I think we should respect other people posting here. Making fun of others with a childish analogy is hitting below the belt.

Too much soju and typing is bad for your grammar…
(TUI : Typing under influence)

After reading the neo Zhang Fei’s comment up there, I guess this one’s no better then the original one.