Not to say that Koreans are adverse to torture, but there is some debate this often said statement has been mostly rumors/propaganda. Quickest link I could find was this:
http://prisonnotebooks.com/?p=141

Let’s not.

http://www.cctv.com/english/20071216/101299.shtml

I wonder what is position is on the Yellow Dust and the other pollution China dumps on Korea. It’s gotten so bad, I don’t plan on staying here for another decade.

“I took a bunch of Korean students to Australia for an english camp. The school was hosting a Japanese group as well. My Korean students, who had never met any Japanese before in their lives, refused to eat with them.”

Thank the Roh government for that. When I first came to Korea, kids would learn anti-North Korean songs in school, Korean kids now learn to fear a Japanese invasion of Dokdo. It’s been toned down a bit recently, but France still a target in Korean elementary school (something about manuscript being taken from Korean over 100 years ago). My wife’s niece told us that her teacher went on a rant about France because of the manuscript before claiming that Koreans have never taken anything from other countries by force (apparently, this teacher needs to read up on Korean history. She might want to start with reading about the Three Kingdoms of Korea, particularly Koguryeo under the rule of King Gwanggaeto).

No, it’s something that was maintained by the government for so long that many people just don’t question it now. The North Korean government, just as the Chinese, uses it to justify it’s existence. The South Korean government, at first, used it to divert public attention away from the fact that many of it’s high ranking members were Japanese collaborators. It really got kicked into high gear when Park Jung Hee, a former Japanese military officer, took power.

Bingo! I’ve long thought that the reason why Korea nurses a huge grudge against Japan is that unlike India, Malaya, Indonesia, and many other former colonies/territories, Korea never freed itself either through peaceful or violent means. I also think that at some level, Koreans realize that they were one, maybe two generations away from cultural extinction. Japan was able to put down active resistence easily and used modernization and education to assimilate Koreans.

Yesterday I was reading a book on lifetime health written by a retired colleague. In his book is some great wisdom for all people. He wrote:

“If we think about how someone has wronged us and we stay with this thought long enough, we start to think about other times this person slighted us or other times people have been unfair to us in the past. The longer we stay in this negative emotional state, the more hurt we will feel and the angrier or more depressed we will become.

p.36, Fitter for Life

The Australians and the (Free) French both eventually won, that’s why.

Would the answers to the both be No too?

I’m not sure about the first question, but I think there are some Russians who still hate the Japanese for the war. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

If Koreans actualy cared about these women, why is there such deafening silence re the trafficking of North Korean women to China today?

No one gives a shit, and these are your blood sisters.