Comments on: 2005 Year of Korea-Japan Friendship /blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship/ But I fear more for Muninn... Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: Muninn /blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship/comment-page-1/#comment-9146 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:44:06 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship.html#comment-9146 Hi Chan, of course, I did not imply that Korea is still Japan’s protectorate. It was only a protectorate from 1905-1910 and then annexed. It was colonized from 1910-1945. It was definitely NOT colonized during World War II, which started decades later.

]]> By: Chan /blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship/comment-page-1/#comment-9135 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:15:11 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship.html#comment-9135 This year is the 100th anniversary of Korea becoming a Japanese protectorate (it was fully annexed/colonized in 1910).

I’m not sure where you got the idea that Korea is Japan’s protectorate, but if you’ve been schooled in Japan, I hope you do realize that Japanese textbooks are pro-imperialistic and simply incorrect when it comes to stating matters such as colonization. No need to put annexed/colonized, really. Korea was colonized by Japan by force during World War II.

I’m really shocked to see these types of comments being said as if they are actual truth.

]]> By: tianan /blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship/comment-page-1/#comment-1581 Tue, 04 Jan 2005 06:51:31 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship.html#comment-1581 Sorry for making the same comments. Anyway, it’s pretty interesting to see how Koreans take the recent “Hanryu(韓流)” in Japan and traslate all the discourses on it. Interestingly, some historians take them as one more proof that shows the superiority of the Korean “pen” culture over Japan’s “sword” one by suggesting that “Yonsama” is a contemporary version of 朝鮮通信使 in the Edo period. Isn’t it so funny?

]]> By: tianan /blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship/comment-page-1/#comment-1580 Tue, 04 Jan 2005 05:51:59 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship.html#comment-1580 I guess Totoro is a quite famous character whose nationality is also well-known to Koreans. Of course, not middle-aged women though.

]]> By: tianan /blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship/comment-page-1/#comment-1579 Tue, 04 Jan 2005 05:46:35 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship.html#comment-1579 I guess Totoro is a relatively well-known character in Korea. Of course, not for middle-aged women, though.

]]> By: Muninn /blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship/comment-page-1/#comment-1578 Tue, 04 Jan 2005 03:23:19 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship.html#comment-1578 Good question…I don’t know. But I would guess that there were plenty of other more famous movies/actors…

]]> By: Matt /blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship/comment-page-1/#comment-1577 Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:05:01 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2005/01/2005-year-of-korea-japan-friendship.html#comment-1577 That is interesting, isn’t it? Is Totoro as popular in (South) Korea as Yong-sama is over here?

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