Korean parents don't teach their kids to disparage Japanese in the school
for nothing.
When they teach history in school, it naturally comes up as well as the
generations of folklore about their plundering southern shores of Korea.
First of all, if you read any Korean history book, there is no name Japan.
Their official name was "Wae" meaning "Midgets".

It tells a lot about Korean-Japan relationship in ancient times.

Japan was not a role model for Koreans. Not even in modern times except for
their skillful technology perhaps. Furthermore, hand skill or technology for
that matter,
was not considered a priority of dignity or high class in Chosun dynasty.

Having a little bit early of modern technology doesn't mean anything in
terms of human dignity and pride. In Chosun dynasty, the political power in
military division was highly suppressed, compared to the scholars division,
causing substantial weakness in the national defense.

Skilled engineers were low class people in Chosun dynasty. That explains
their going behind in modern technology. But their cultural and moral
standard was way over any nations in the world.

"Wae" was considered barbarians.

That's why ancient Koreans who left Korea to Japan are always longing to
return to their home land. They can never feel home until they join their
ancestral land and being accepted there as one of equal. You always have the
feeling of being an outcast if you live in Japan as a Korean descendent.
That can be expressed by violence and revenge but such a sentiment can only
be improved by sincere apology and reconciliation for the mistreatment of it
own people by Koreans in ancient times who forced their political enemy to
leave to Japan and also by their sincere apology for plundering the southern
shores of Korean peninsula as well as the recent aggression.

It's hard to explain but Koreans have this God given pride of their race,
probably which came from the spirit of Hun. After all, they are the
descendents of Huns who conquered Europe in 4th century AD. They deserve to
have pride. It's not so much about their aggression but it's their spirit of
adventure to be powerful and large.

If you translate the official name of Korea which is "Dae Hun Min Kuk" it
means
"Great Great People's Nation". Dae means big and powerful in Chinese
character
but Hun also means the same in original Korean dialect.

It's interesting when Chinese people like to call themselves "Chung Wha"
meaning people at the center of the earth. They are pretty much satisfied to
be at the center of the earth and being regarded as such. Such a spirit does
not go over the boundary of their routine.




"Kaz" <kaz@ivebeenframed.com> wrote in message
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> Why are they? It seems the Koreans always tend to consider the liberal
> Japanese having no attitude against Koreans as "a Korean that happened
> to live in Japan". Are the Koreans considering that the Koreans are
> the only humanitarians or liberalists, and all Japanese are brutal
> imperialists or something?
>
> Does Korean education teach every Korean kid as every Japanese is bad
> imperialist or something? Unfortunately it seems to me that Korean
> education has been teaching so.