Picture of the Day: South Korean Activists Want to Scrap Comfort Women Deal
Participants to the decade-long weekly protest calling for Japan’s apology for the Japanese army’s forcible sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul march toward the foreign ministry while holding up the portraits of the deceased sexual slaves, called “comfort women,” on Dec. 28, 2016. They called for the nullification of the Korea-Japan agreement on comfort women signed last year. (Yonhap)
Those little buttercups were not even alive back then and probably not their mothers.
Is this ever going to end…
Nope, it’s the perfect excuse for Koreans to keep their hate alive and to continue to live in their “tragic” past. I’ve said it before, the Japanese gov’t could give every victim (not just the Koreans) one million dollars and apologize every hour for a year and Koreans will never be satisfied. Again, it’s the perfect excuse to hate and Koreans have been teaching this to their children (“buttercups”) for a long time
@Jigoku, I think you generalize too much because there are plenty of Koreans that want this to be over with; it is not like these activists groups are drawing large crowds. The Korean left sees this as another opportunity to rile people up against a decision made by the Park administration before the election.
For the professional protester class you are right there is nothing Japan could do to ever make them happy. Like I have said before Abe could apologize for every Japanese misdeed since the Imjim War followed by committing seppuku on top of Namsan and it would not appease the professional protester class.
Possibly.
The simple fact of the matter is I’ve heard many Korean children in my classes over the years say how they hate the Japanese and some want to “kill the Japanese” for what they did to Korea.
These are children saying this. Why are are they saying this and why are they being taught to hate? Who is teaching them this? If the majority of Koreans are tired of this issue, their voices are the loudest and this should be a non-topic. Don’t those with the loudest voices in Korea win the argument? This reminds me of those loser KKK barbarians and other scum like them and what they preach to keep hate alive. Why else would an elementary kid want to murder a person for being Japanese, or whatever else for that matter?
If little kids are saying this, they are being taught to hate by the older generation who were also taught to hate by an older generation etc…
Maybe Koreans need to hate, someone, whether it be the Chinese, Japanese, Americans, English teacher etc… It seems without outsiders to hate, Koreans would probably tear themselves apart.
Sure not every Korean thinks like this and I could possibly be wrong, but I don’t think I am
@jigoku, I believe the silent majority of Koreans are not going to get worked up and complain about a statue some activists are putting up. It is just not something that effects their daily lives to come out strongly about. I think most people see the protests shrug their shoulders and go about their day. That makes the activists the loudest group and thus the corresponding media attention.
As far as hate taught to Korean kids look no further than the pro-Pyongyang Korean Teachers Union who also have a long history of teaching kids to hate Americans:
https://www.rokdrop.net/2016/01/korean-appeals-court-upholds-ban-on-korean-teachers-union/