"thegoons" <thegoons@bigpond.com> wrote in message news:nE1Fa.52580$1s1.703355@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
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> "Kaz" <kaz@ivebeenframed.com> wrote in message
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> > Maybe it's true that the Japanese started modern education in Korea.
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> It is totally wrong - admit it. Also please admit Governmanetal interference
> in textbook content.

Do you mean Koreans were also realizing that they must open their
country then they had started modern education by themselves before
our people do?
 
> > As far as I know,
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> Hardly an authoritative source
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> > before Japan annexes Korea, Korea was like
> > completely undeveloped land like Africa in the 19th century.
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> So what? Perhaps they were happy living like that.
 
You are right. I think they had been happy with that. I think our
silly interfering pseudo-Western imperial honorary White folks who
look down on Asian style livings over-concerned about being not
modernized. I think they worried about if Korea was invaded by the
European great powers, then they annexed Korea and tried to remove the
isolation policy and make Korea modernized.