Jon Carter Covell is a Joke

A few Japanese bloggers (here and here) have just picked up a claim that Sen no Rikyū was a second or third generation Korean.

Little known fact, but today’s elaborate Japanese tea ceremony owes a lot to Sen Rikyū, who was second or third generation Korean Japanese. Sen’s last name would be Korean Romanized as Ch’on.
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No internet link, but I got it from here:

http://books.google.com/books?…..en+history

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Sounds familiar? I’ve wrote a lot about it.

blood obsession

blood obsession – revisited

Yet another Uriginal – Soy source

Korean invented Chinese characters?

“Korean Created China and Japan”…

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

Korean invented everything

The uri nara manse syndrome

In fact, Jon Carter Covell’ book “Korean Impact on Japanese Culture: Japan’s Hidden History” is very famous among Koreans and they wave the book like the Bible or Qur’an.

However, the author has less credibility than Benjamin Fulford. … meaning the author has NO credibility whatsoever. She was not even a historian. I doubt she was able to read Hanja(Chinese) and Japanese. And if you can’t read those languages, you are not entitled to talk about Korean history since Korean historical documents are written in Hanja and Japanese.

I’ve seen so many ridicules Korean articles based on the book. Any descent Korean experts know the book is a joke. But, the problem is that a few non-experts take it seriously. It is sad sad to see those who believe Korean propaganda. Korean web is full of it as you see in the beef protest.

Those Korean ridicules view of history (or fantasy) is spreading from Korean web to the English web.. Watch out.

Yet another Uriginal – Soy source

First of all, since the wikipedia article for Uriginal has been deleted permanently, I have to define what Uriginal is.

Uriginal is mintage of Korea ” Uri(Korean) + original “

Korean believes that it is uriginal. But it isn’t always “true”.

Soccer is uriginal.
Manga is Uriginal.
Karate is uriginal.
Kendo is uriginal.
Samurai is uriginal.
etc…

Urban Dictionary : Uriginal

For example, long before Sushi became popular world wide, Koreans used to make a fool of eating raw fish. However, once Sushi became “Cool”, they started claim Sushi originates from Korea.

美식당가, 日정부 ‘일식’ 인증추진에 코웃음

그는 “스시와 사시미는 원래 중국과 한국에서 유래했기 때문에” 일본은 스시가 자기들의 음식문화라고 주장할 권리가 없다면서 “일본은 2차대전 이후에 스시를 먹기 시작했지만 한국과 중국은 수천년간 스시와 사시미를 만들어 왔다”고 주장했다.

In this article, a owner of Sushi restaurant “Ginza Sushi” in LA, Jerry Kim said

“Sushi and Sashimi came from Korea and China. Japanese started to eat Sushi after 1945, and they don’t have no rights to claim about Sushi”.

He isn’t the only Korean to say such a bullshit. I’ve had enough stupid fantasic stories about it.

I can give you numerous examples like this. If you read “Korea and Her Neighbors” you’ll notice that Koreans don’t have a history of drinking tea at all. But, today they claim sado (which is an art, and spiritual zen way of serving and drinking tea) originates from Korea. How could they so arrogant and ignorant? One can only guess. If you read books such as Korea and Her Neighbors by Isabella Lucy Bird or Histoire de L’Eglise de Corée by Claude Charles Dallet, You’ll know. They did not have any of those traditions. So they have to CREATE HISTORY and TRADITIONs today otherwise they feel.. what crazy? inferior? I don’t know. Probably it’s the deeply rooted HAN or inferior complex.

A typical Korean would answer “the evil Japs took away from us!” Heck you idiot. Those books were written way before Japan annexed Korea.

They did not have Kendo(or Kumdo), Sado, Kado, Judo, Karate, Origami, Matsuri, Sakura, or any of those things.

Korean invented Chinese characters?

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

Korean invented everything

This time, a new target is Soy source.

동은FC는 우선 간장소스부터 출시할 계획이다. 세계시장에서 우리나라 전통 발효식품인 간장이 마치 일본 것으로 인식되는 것을 고치겠다는 포부다. 초기에는 일본 간장소스를 벤치마킹해 세계시장에 연착륙 한 뒤 차차 세계인의 입맛을 바꿔나갈 계획이라고 회사 측은 소개한다. 2년 내 미국 애너하임에 지사를 설립할 계획이다.

간장은 한국이 원조 ‘일본간장 잡겠다

http://news.joins.com/article/aid/2008/06/04/3134261.html

You don’t like Kikkoman is the de-fact synonym for soy source, huh? You wanna proclaim that Korea is the true father and the originator of Soy source huh? Fu*ck. Original Soy Source came from ancient china.

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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This is soooo Korean. I’m sorry, but I can’t stop the smile on my face. lol

Korean invented Chinese characters?

I’ve just read some comment and someone was wondering where the claim “Korea invented Chinese characters” nonsense came from.

It was the last year when blogs and forums started pick up this story. Then a few news sites picked up this issue [ for example here in Japanese] as “funny” news. Unlike in South Korea, many considered it as a rumor or a joke. But Koreans are known to claim [fill in this blank] originates from Korea, so many believed Koreans actually claimed that.

So, a guy(a writer) did a through research [in Japanese] on this. Where all this started? Is it an urban legend or not?

Here is the summary.