Mon ami
@Gabriel92 , yes , the hatred Koreans have for Japan (even towards China) is indeed very excessive. I think it is based on their history of being a hermit kingdom, trapped between two imposing powers (Imperial China and Imperial Japan) and being the source of foreign invasions (The Manchu Chinese invaded Northern Korea plenty of times, as well as the Chinese imposed their imperial system on the Koreans; the Japanese under Hideyoshi Toyotomi invaded Korea during the Imjin Wars , conquering the country , before Japan abandoned the country after Hideyoshi died; then Japan ejected Chinese influence in Korea after Japan defeated China in the 1st Sino Japanese War, then seized Korea effectively merging the Chosen Empire with the Japanese Empire in 1905).
So the Koreans have a hatred because Korea was conquered in totality by Japan, and ruled for over half a century. But the thing that these extremist Koreans fail to mention is that how much Japan developed Korea. Japan had built schools, hospitals, roads, railroads, modernized farming , modernized fishing, introduced industrialization to Korea, and this led to the growth of the Korean population under Japanese rule. The level of literacy in Korea prior to Japanese rule was abhoric , most of the country was illiterate , but under the rule of the Japanese Empire, Korean literacy rates was at par with that of Japan proper, and at the same level as that of Taiwan , which was also part of the Japanese Empire during that time.
The problem here is that Korean leadership continue to feed their people only negative information of life under Japan. They purposely ignore the overwhelming good that Japan did for Korea.
(exept japan america)
