"Curtis Desjardins" <iloveyumifukawa@hanmail.net> wrote in message
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> "min10011" <min10011@hotmail.com> wrote
> > "Curtis Desjardins" <iloveyumifukawa@hanmail.net> wrote
> > > grunt100@msn.com (grunt100@msn.com) wrote >
> > > > Can you quote case(s) of, quote, a very good amount of Korean
> > > > people in Korean and Japanese newsgroups who blame the MODERN
> > > > Japanese for what happened in WWII, unquote.
> > > >
> > > > Make your specific case.  You broadly accuse "Korean people
> > > > blame modern day Japanese for what happened in WWII," but
> > > > you do not have quote specific cases where such accusations
> > > > were done.  That is, you blow hot air without substance.  Make
> > > > your case.
> > >
> > > Here's MY case. I'd say quote about 50% of my over-40 students are
> > > openly hostile towards Japan and the Japanese. Neither do they
> > > distinguish between those actually responsible for the atrocities they
> > > accuse the Japanese of committing during WWII, and those Japanese who
> > > were not even born at the time of the atrocities. I personally have
> > > not heard any Korean over 40 say anything remotely kind about the
> > > Japanese people. Ever. unquote.
> > >
> > > Good enough? Or do personal anecdotes not count? (If you're waiting
> > > for sociological studies, don't hold your breath...)
> >
> > I've heard many older Koreans express favorable views of the Japanese.
Even
> > on this board.  You need to get over things, Curtis, and lose the 'tude.
>
> What 'tude? grunt kept saying make a case, make a case, make a case.
> So I did.
> I gave him personal, anecdotal evidence. I made no moral judgements
> about what I said, I simply stated exactly what the people I have
> _talked_to_personally_ have said to me. They are not second-hand
> experiences. They are first-hand experiences.

Unless the discussion touches on Japanese injustices against the Koreans,
the majority of Koreans do NOT talk in an "openly hostile" manner about the
Japanese.

> So, you have met older Koreans with favourable views of Japan. Good
> for you. I haven't (or if I have, they have not made those views known
> to me or their fellow students in class). I'm sure they exist, but I
> personally haven't heard any.
>
> As for older Koreans on this newsgroup, with very few exceptions, I
> don't know anyone's age here. Who here is over 40 and Korean?

Admittedly he's not an ideal example, but Doo Hwan's admiration for Japan is
well-known.  Non-regulars over the years have posted positive things about
the Japanese.  Based on some of their personal recollections of historical
events -- including, in at least one instance, life under Japanese rule -- I
estimated their ages varied from the 40's to the 70's.