“Korean Created China and Japan”…

On 16th, LA. Dr Hong Beom Rhee the author of “Asian Millenarianism” gave a speech.

According to the article,

한국인은 미개해서 고대에는 중국의 속국으로 근대에는 일본의 식민지가 됐다\”는 일반적인 역사인식을 깨트리며 \”일본과 중국을 만든 민족은 바로 한국인이며, 고대 한국 문명이 아시아 문명의 모체가 됐다\

Contrasted with the common historical knowledge, which “Koreans were uncivilized and Korea used to be a vassal state of China and a colony of Japan”, “it was Koreans created Japan and China, and ancient Korean civilization was the origin of Asian civilizations”.

“韓国人は未開で古代には中国の属国で近代には日本の植民地になった”という一般的な歴史認識を破って “日本と中国を作った民族はまさに韓国人であり, 古代韓国文明がアジア文明の母体となった”

I’d really like to see the logic and proof to back up his theory.

From what I know, people living in the Korean peninsula spoke different languages and had different customs around 6th century. I wonder which people he’s talking about.

And he forgets about Mongols. Korea used to be under severe control from Mongols; worse than a vassal state. And his claim is based on “Korean Pure Blood” myth (and of course the “Dangun” myth). But, the fact is, Koreans today are pretty mongolianized…

Well, pretty soon, he’s gonna start saying Korean have 10000 years of history or whatever.

The object of worship: from Sinocentrism to Kim cult – surprisingly similar

Japan PM: NKorea can’t ’survive’ as independent, nuclear state

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has warned that North Korea must renounce its nuclear weapons program if the Stalinist nation wants to “survive” as an independent state.

“Well, as an independent country, if it, North Korea, wishes to survive, then I think they need to give up their nuclear weapons and at the same time will think of their economic independence,” he said through an interpreter.

“And economically, since they have a regime that is totally different from our free regime and I don’t think you can call that an independent country, and the way they are, their country will sort of taper off and perhaps at the end of the day will disappear.”

Japan’s Prime Minister Fukuda Warns of Chinese Military Buildup

Fukuda said North Korea would have difficulty surviving as an independent country unless it gives up nuclear weapons and frees its economy.

“I don’t think they can really become truly independent with their current stance as a very closed, hermit country. The people will be very unhappy, miserable,” Fukuda said. “The way they are, their country will sort of taper off and perhaps at the end of the day will disappear.”

On March 16, 1885

In my view, China and Korea cannot survive as independent nations with the onslaught of modern civilization to the East if they keep the way they are. There is no doubt that ruins and divisions of countries are inevitable unless noble men of reform appear in these two countries and manage to reform the countries from top to down just like the Meiji Restoration. It is because locking self up in a closed room and shutting the air flow avoiding the wave of modern civilization, will only suffocate themselves.

Today’s North Korea is surprisingly similar to the pre-Japan era of Chosun Korea(Joseon Dynasty) in many ways…

This time, Japan will try to avoid being involved in Korea, so eventually, in the future, N Korea might be absorbed into Chinese empire again. Of course it could be S Korea, who knows. I really hope S Korea will absorb N Korea in the future. But the problem is that South Koreans today don’t like the idea of reunification.

[related]

about Kim cult at DPRK Studies

about Korea’s Sinocentrism/사대주의(事大主義)/Flunkeyism

about not wanting the reunification at DPRK Studies

Anti-Ignorance on Comfort Women

I seriously wanted to avoid this stupid topic, however I felt I was obligated to bring this one up. I’ve mentioned about the mistake of the comfort women photo exhibition before. But, please forgive me to point this latest incident.

Yesterday, a Korean newspaper The Kukmin Daily released an article about ROK goverment’s “The comfort women photo exhibition”.

The exhibition’s or ROK government’s intention was to let people around the world to know about evil Jap’s wrong doings in the past such as “Comfort Women“. However, as I been saying all along, even Koreans themselves don’t know a shit about “Comfort Women“. They don’t even know a shit about Korean “Comfort Women” for the UN(American soldiers) during the Korean war. A Korean professor once said “Comfort Women” meant literally “prostitutes”. Then guess what happen. [pic] He was accused of betrayal and threaten to get fired, and received death thread. Certain truth cannot be told in South Korea.

The article is actually accusing this Korean ignorance on “Comfort Women” because the pictures labeled as “Comfort Women” shown at the exhibition had, in fact, NOTHING TO DO WITH “Comfort Women“, and they couldn’t even differentiate 挺身隊 and 慰安婦. South Korean government has spent billions of won on this and the results are this stupid mistakes full of exhibition and the photo book. Even though the most pictures were taken away from the exhibition, the photo book is out there and it is too late. This kind of misunderstanding or ignorance sparked recent years of the “Comfort Women” hysteria.

Korean invented everything

Koreans are known to claim [fill in this blank] originates from Korea. And that’s pissing some off, and some laugh at Koreans.

This is the one thing, among many, I want to find out why and where this tendency came from. I’m just curious. I suspect that the uri nara manse syndrome just went too far.

Here is the latest example.

China:Korean professor under catcalls from Global Voices

On 31st, October, several Chinese portal websites released the news: the Korean professor Zheng Zaishu in Ehwa University suggested that, contrasted with the common sense, the Chinese mythology mainly originated from Korea. His theory was based on the fact that many gods mentioned in Chinese mythology Legends of Mountains and Seas could be found in Goguryeo frescos.

Korea is truly interesting. “uri nara manse syndrome“, “blood obsession“, “origin obsession”, Hwabyeong, generosity toward lies, etc etc

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Taekwondo is a ripp off, but we don’t remember that

Another Sushi fraud. Tilapia

The Soul of Japan. The Soul of Korea.

I wanted to know “the soul of Korea” but I could not find a book about it.

Instead, I read Bushido: The Soul of Japan and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword just because… it was on the shelf.

Bushido: The Soul of Japan at Amazon.com.

Bushido: The Soul of Japan from Wikipedia.

Great books. They explain a lot of things about Japanese. A “samurai’s word” is not merely unbreakable; it is factual. … A samurai’s word can never be false. From what I observe, Japanese hate liars even today.

You ask “Not all Japanese were samurai right?” Well, if you read, you’ll know the answer. But let me give you an example. At the end of Edo period, those who fought to protect old-Tokugawa regime (Shinsengumi) were, in fact, sons of farmers. They were also masters of Kendo. They were the last of true samurais.

Anyway, the reason why I wanted to learn about the soul of Korea is that Koreans do lie often. Well, according to Chosun Ilbo[* or "country of liars"], perjury in a Korean court is 671 times higher than it is in Japan. The author of “Korea and Her Neighbours”, Isabella L. Bird Bishop described Korea as “country of rumors”. But, don’t get me wrong. Please. Who said lying is a sin? It could be just a culture or figure of speech. The roots of Korean spirits or soul must be found in Sinocentrism or Confucianism. I must find it. I just want to understand.

If you know a good book about Korean soul and its roots? Please let me know! (English book is preferred) Thanks.

[update]

I just found “Taekwondo: The Spirit of Korea” but, the creator of Taekwondo already confessed that he learned everything from Karate. see “Taekwondo is a ripp off, but we don’t remember that“

Koreans lack a sense of irony

I mean Koreans literally do not have a concept of irony/sarcasm. Thus, there are no words for them in Korean.

Be aware when you talk with Koreans or else you might find yourself in deep shit.;-)

That’s all for today.

[update]

Some dictionary translates irony into Korean words such as “비꼬기”, “풍자한다” or “비아냥거리는”, but its meaning sounds different… Those are more like “teasing” or “harmless form of bullying” or “Jeer”..

blood obsession – revisited

South Korean people love to think famous people as Koreans. It’s like he/she must be a Korean if she/he archives something. It’s true there ARE many famous Korean descents in Japan such as Rikidozan, Yoshihiro Akiyama, and Akiko Wada. However….

The uri nara manse syndrome

I don’t wanna be too picky, but there ARE obvious tendency in Korean media. I call it “uri nara mansei syndrome” meaning “uri(our) nara(country) manse(great)” or 우리나라 만세.

The WiBro story I blogged yesterday “Korea’s WiBro” or WiMAX; not so Korean was a good example of this.  Oh, and the first train story was good one too.
I can list a whole bunch but here are some more latest story.

Korean animation hits #1 in the U.S. 국내 애니메이션 美 지상파 시청률 1위 기염 国内アニメーション 美 至上派視聴率 1位気炎 [2007-10-23 11:03:03]

‘이온키드’는 지난 해 9월30일까지 KBS 2TV에서 방영된 ‘아이언키드’의 미국판 타이틀로 기획, 제작뿐 아니라 그 동안 한국 애니메이션의 가장 큰 취약점이었던 시나리오 연출까지 100% 국내에서 진행한 작품이다.

미국 외에도 스페인, 이탈리아 등 유럽지역에서도 시청률 1위를 기록하며 선풍적인 인기를 끈 바 있다.

http://news.media.daum.net/entertain/broadcast/200710/23/newsen/v18572417.html

It reads “it was 100% Korean-made from planning to creation” “It became popular not only in the U.S. but also in European countries such as Spain and Italy.”

Ok it sure looks fine.

But according to Wikipedia, Eon Kid is a CGI television series produced by BRB Internacional (Spain), DesignStorm, Daiwon C&A Holdings (South Korea) and Manga Entertainment (US).

Also, it kinda looks like Rockman

OK, well, whatever.. NEXT!

The world’s fastest mobile telecommunication technology from Korea!

ETRI, HSDPA보다 1000배 빠른 이동통신기술 개발

3.6Gbps 4G시스템 공개시연, 20메가 HD영상 100개 실시간 동시 전송
2007년 10월 11일 14:34:26 / 김재철 기자

世界 最高速 移動通信 技術が 純粋 国内 技術で 開発された.

… 세계 최고속 이동통신 기술이 순수 국내 기술로 개발됐다 …

The world’s fastest mobile telecommunication technology has been developed with pure Korean-homegrown technologies.

3.6Gbps

http://www.ddaily.co.kr/news/news_view.php?uid=29798

OK, that’s NOT true either.

第4世代移動通信システムに向けた実験において、世界初の5Gbpsパケット信号伝送に成功

＜2007年2月9日＞

NTTドコモ（以下ドコモ）は、第4世代移動通信システムに向けた屋外実験を2006年12月25日に行い、下り最大約5Gbpsのパケット信号伝送に成功しました。

http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/news_release/page/20070209b.html

December 25th, 2006, NTT DoCoMo successfully transmitted 5Gbps while moving at 10km/hour. This was not a computer simulation. It was a real field test.

There are a whole lot more, but… boy am I tired.

Remember this “Always verify when you read Korean news articles and books” no kiddin’

It’s none of my business how Korean uses media to fuel ugly nationalism, but lying, distortion and exaggeration isn’t good for any of us.

70% of Korean words originate from Kanji(Hanja) [update2]

I’ve been reading Korean newspapers in Korean, English and Japanese. Today, I was very surprised to read Japanese version of The Chosun Ilbo article mentioned this.

1995年のある日、成均館大中文科の全広鎮（チョン・グァンジン）教授に当時小学校4年生だった娘がこう聞いてきた。「お父さん、“トウゴウ”ってなに？」「うーん、それは“互いに同じであることを示す符号”をいうんだよ」「それじゃあ、どうしてそれを“とうごう”っていうの？」。その瞬間、全教授は頭がぼんやりとする気分に襲われた。「等しい“等”」「符号の“号”」ということさえ分かればよいのだが、（訳注：表音文字の）ハングル文字でトウゴウと表記しても、何も分からないのではないか。

In 1995, professor 全広鎮 at 成均館大 university was asked by his 9 years-old daughter.
“Daddy, what is tougou?” “That means an equal sign” “Then, why do you say tougou? ” That moment, the professor felt dizzy.. If only she knew “equal” as in “等”(tou) and “sign” as in “号”(gou)… There is no way of knowing what that is if you write that in Hangul…

… 韓国語の語彙の70％、学術用語の90％以上を占めている漢字語 …

The 70% of Korean words and 90% of academic words are Kanji-originated words.

from “韓国で出版された新しい漢字語辞典とは” The Chosun Ilbo 2007/11/06 16:48:35

Who was Kim Gu? I think he was just a psycho.

The faces of the revered independence fighter Kim Gu(or Kim Ko/Kim Ku) and mid-Chosun-era female artist Shin Saimdang, the mother of Confucian scholar Yulkok Yi Yi, are expected to grace the new W100,000 and W50,000 bills to be released in 2009.
..
Kim Koo garnered overwhelming support and was unofficially selected as the face of the W100,000 bill.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200711/200711050026.html

Must read!! “Korea and Her Neighbours” by Isabella L. Bird Bishop

I’ve just finished reading this book “Korea and Her Neighbors”. This book is just a great book. Anyone.. anyone who are interested in Korea and her history MUST read.

Buy it

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0710301359/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Korea-Neighbours-Isabella-Lucy-Bird/dp/1402144970/

or

Read it(only parts of the book)

http://amazon.com/gp/reader/1402144970?ie=UTF8&keywords=General%20Tso&ie=UTF8&v=search-inside

http://www.shinmiyangyo.org/koreaandherneighbours.doc

If you’ve only learned Korean history in Korea, you’ll be shocked to death for sure. Korean version of this book is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to get in South Korea due to political/historical reason. Korean government has been lying to Korean nationals about some sensible historical facts such as true relationship between China and Korea.

Also she wrote “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan”. If you are interested, read on full text here.

“Korea’s WiBro” or WiMAX – not so Korean

A few weeks ago, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has approved WiMax as a 3G standard, together with WCDMA, CDMA200 and TD-SCDMA …
[International Herald Tribune] [eWeek]

The interesting thing is that Korean media advertise that “100% Korean developed WiBro” had been approved by ITU. And Koreans on the web claim WiBro is Korean developed technology and it became the international standard.

Korea Times , October 19, 2007 Friday By Cho Jin-seo

“This is a good news for the government and the whole nation,” said Song Yu-jong, chief of the ministry’s Radio and Broadcasting Strategic Planning Bureau. “This is the first time for a Korean-developed technology to be recognized as a global standard, and it will help Korea keep its international image as an IT powerhouse.”

http://www.contentagenda.com/articleXml/LN687601841.html?nid=3039

The Korea Herald Saturday, October 20, 2007 By Lee Sun-young

WiBro, Korea’s homegrown wireless internet technology, has been officially adopted as one of the international standards for third-generation communications technologies, the Ministry of Information and Communication said yesterday.

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=80269

Weird… as usual. I’ve been reading Korean newspapers everyday and I’ve learned to verify it’s validity.

WiBro is a mobile internet service in South Korea, and it also became an acronym for wireless broadband technology in South Korea. Korean standards makers early on adopted the term to describe their initiatives towards adopting a version of the 802.16e standard. Basically, the Korean standard chose to accept a specific mobile WiMAX iteration of 802.16e, rather than any future version that included backwards compatibility to fixed wireless 802.16 systems.

In a nuts shell, WiBro is a subset of IEEE 802.16 (WiMax).

So, WiBro(in Korea) or WiMax(WorldWide) or IEEE 802.16(for geeks) was developed by IEEE, in another word, many developers from all over the world.

Korea is lying? again?