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Post by Admin on Aug 18, 2019 2:02:50 GMT
The best-seller "Anti-Japan Tribalism," 반일 종족주의, has generated much buzz in Korea.  The book, a collection of 25 academic papers written by six authors, including retired Seoul National University economics professor Lee Young-hoon, presents alternative explanations about the Japanese colonial rule and its consequences on Korea. Professor Lee blames historians for fabricating historical facts, calling them "liars." According to him, the Japanese military introduced the wartime military brothels, or comfort stations, in 1937 to "boost" soldiers' morale as it was at or prepared for war against China and the United States. The economist says the pimps were Koreans who were sort of business partners of the comfort women. The two sides shared income from sex trade in accordance with ratios previously agreed upon. In this sense, Lee claims, comfort women were self-employed women and had freedom of mobility once their contracts with their pimps ended. It was the Korean pimps who recruited the girls through fraudulent job contracts. Uneducated, poor parents also handed over their daughters to the pimps for money. Lee claims around 18,000 Korean women worked at comfort stations during World War II, a figure much lower than what was known to the public. The dominant narrative claims as many as 200,000 women, mostly Asian with the majority being Koreans, were believed to be wartime sex slaves. He claims such military brothels are a common wartime practice, claiming they were used in Vietnam when Korean troops were stationed there during the Vietnam War, as well as in Korea during the Korean War.  "Anti-Japan Tribalism" drew criticism from both conservatives and liberals. Right-wing politician Hong Joon-pyo said on Monday that he disagrees with the points made by the authors. He said the book has repeated claims by Japanese right-wingers to justify their cruel past.  Fellow conservative lawmaker Jang Je-won concurred with him, saying the book gave him a severe headache. The right-wing politicians' criticism came days after Justice Minister-nominee Cho Kuk accused the lead author Lee of trying to curry favor with Japan. Cho, who was then in between jobs at that time after leaving the presidential office as senior secretary for civil affairs, revealed his visceral dislike of "Anti-Japan Tribalism" and Lee. |
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Post by Admin on Aug 18, 2019 18:37:14 GMT
The South Korean leader has drawn the ire of conservative commentators at home for wrecking ties with Japan, a former colonial ruler that is now a key economic partner and fellow security ally of the United States. To thousands of Japanese viewers, the YouTube channels offer a rare honest appraisal of Moon, whose detractors see as an untrustworthy man who has turned against a neighboring democracy while courting the dictator of North Korea.  Relations between the two deteriorated this year as simmering disputes over Japan’s wartime use of Korean labor reignited, and Japan imposed stricter export controls on high-tech materials to South Korea. “The responsibility for this situation lies with President Moon Jae-in and his government’s foreign policy,” Ko Sung-kook, host of Kosungkook TV on YouTube, said on a broadcast earlier this month.  At the height of anti-Japanese sentiment, the book is ironically a best seller. It may not be just because of mere curiosity. What is the historical truth in the pro-Japanese versus anti-Japanese arguments? The book argues with various data and numbers. It uses rice production, export and consumption volumes, a wage ledger from a Japanese mine and postal saving books of comfort women. It is not easy for the public to critically verify the validity and limits of the data. Denouncing arguments based on data with morals, values, hatred and emotion is ignoring the topic, not overcoming it. I truly hope that future researches and popular books overcome the claims in the book with thorough data and cool-headed interpretation. The basis of “Anti-Japanese Tribalism” is modernization through colonization. The argument introduced in the 1990s shocked the dominating view of exploitation during colonization. The weapons for the argument were numbers and data. Scholars are also making efforts to get over the modernization theory. Chungnam National University professor emeritus Huh Soo-youl is one of them. His book “Development without Development” shows that most of the fruits of the growth went to a few Japanese and the modernization legacy by Japanese colonization is essentially trivial. The weapon he used was the statistical approach that colonial modernization advocates used. The book was published in 2005, when anti-Japanese sentiment was elevated after Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made a Yasukuni visit. Professor Huh was worried that the social atmosphere could interfere with serious academic discussion.  Prof. Huh wrote a contribution to Oh My News on March 25, 2005, in which he said, “I think the mainstream theory of exploitation during the colonial period had been a big fish in a small pond and had to diminish when it came out of the pond.” |
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Post by Admin on Aug 18, 2019 20:34:36 GMT
The anti-Japanese tribalism that sells a lot in bookstores these days is hot. There was no forced mobilization or harassment of comfort women during the Japanese colonial rule.  The anti-Japanese tribalism that sells a lot in bookstores these days is hot. There was no forced mobilization or harassment of comfort women during the Japanese colonial rule. Then Professor Lee Young-hoon, who wrote this book, advertised in the newspaper today (8th) and said exactly what the problem was. The controversy over Lee Young-hoon, an honorary professor at Seoul National University began when Lee published a book called Anti-Japanese Tribalism with fellow researchers last month. The book criticizes the hostility of Korea's view of Japan as its enemy, and contains a claim that there was no forced mobilization or comfort women's sexual slavery during Japanese colonial rule. [Professor Lee Young-hoon (Rhee Seung-man TV): The comfort women system of Japan is that such a system of incorporation into the Japanese army was mobilized and reorganized in the form of a window for Japanese soldiers.] However, three days ago, former President Cheong Wa Dae's Min Jung-suk criticized the "disgusting book" as "a scholar who raises such claims publicly." As the controversy grew, Professor Lee promptly refuted, pointing out exactly what was wrong with him and his research. Former Rep. Hong Joon-pyo of the Liberal Korean Party has made negative comments on his anti-Japanese tribalism.  The anti-Japanese tribalism, published last month, is a criticism of the anti-Japanese sentiment. Hong said on his Facebook yesterday (12th) that "I read this book called anti-Japanese tribalism, but I don't want to understand why it is a conservative youtuber." "I think that it is inconsistent with our common sense, such as the land survey project, iron stakes, recruitment, and comfort women issues, but it is inconsistent with the Japanese colonial captain's claim." I did. He said, "I do not agree with the anti-Japanese movement that the Moon regime is opening up, but I do not agree with this book, like the comfort women of the empire." Lastly, Hong ended the post, saying, "Conservatives and rightists are caught in the left-hand frame of the leftists." |
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Post by Admin on Sept 1, 2019 18:15:20 GMT
Nak-Nyun Kim, director of Naksung University's Economic Research Institute (Professor Dongguk University), issued a statement on the 29th, saying, "Anti-Japanese tribalism is a Syngman Rhee program. It's not right." "We must immediately stop barbaric acts such as abusive phone calls, demonstrations, and terrorism against pure academic research institutes. In the future, we will strictly hold legal responsibility if such acts recur."  Earlier, the 40-year-old self-employed A (male) threw dirt at the entrance of the Nakseong University Economic Research Institute on the 28th and posted a note on the wall to blame the institute. Mr. A, who was accused of invading and destroying property, was reported to have read about the anti-Japanese tribalism book on the Internet. In fact, Naksung University Economic Research Institute and Rhee Syngman Rhee are inseparable. The anti-Japanese tribalism was co-authored by six people (Kim Nak-nyeon, Lee Young-hoon, Kim Yong-sam, Ju Ik-jong, Jung An-ki, and Lee U-yeon). Nak-Yun Kim and Woo-Yeon Lee belong to Naksung University Economic Research Institute and Juik-Jong and Kim Yong-Sam belong to Syngman Rhee. Lee Young Hoon belongs to both sides. Kim Nak-Yeon argues that anti-Japanese tribalism was led by the Syngman Rhee School in order to avoid saturation at the Nakseong University Economic Research Institute, known as the birthplace of anti-Japanese tribalism. The anti-Japanese tribalism, published last month, denied the Japanese occupation and the compulsion of comfort women, and stands at the center of the pro-Japanese controversy with the claim that Dokdo is Japanese territory. The Naksung University Economic Research Institute has been criticized for beautifying colonial rule with the support of the Korean government and Japanese war criminals. In fact, in the late 1980s (1988-1990) and mid-2000s (2005-2008), the Japan Toyota Foundation funded the colonial research. According to Congressman Kim Jong-hoon (Longsan Party, Ulsan Dong-gu), he received a grant of 1.2 billion won from the Korea Research Foundation in 2002-2008. |
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Post by Admin on Sept 2, 2019 20:57:55 GMT
 It is not just for Professor Lee Young-hoon to mislead Koreans for wrongly comparing crime statistics for one day. In this regard, I will point out the rumors that despise Koreans in the same way as Professor Lee (omitted below). Lee Young Hoon unable to distinguish between personal dislikes and facts.  1 <anti-Japanese Tribalism> starts by pointing out the internationally well-known 'lie culture of Koreans'. Lee Young-hoon recently wrote in the <Korea Economy> column, "It is well known internationally that Koreans lie well." The first sentence of <Anti-Japanese Tribalism> starts like this firmly. "Korea's lying culture is well known internationally." Lee Young-hoon, who is Korean but not a positivist, should be ashamed. If you're a researcher, you can train yourself to reduce falsehoods without anyone teaching you. One of them is a careful approach when talking about international, global, and overseas. Because the unit is so large that it is local information, and it is easy to say the wrong thing. To be bold, like me, from the beginning of the book, there must be clear proof. This is even more so in the light of the fact that they have shown great pride in their usual objective evidence. But of course there is no such thing in Anti-Japanese Tribalism. It is not even known at first whether Korea's lying culture is notorious internationally. It is difficult to investigate how well known lies culture is overseas, and how to define it is difficult. Lee Young-hoon, Cho Gap-je and the eccentric heart of Japanese journalism Lee Young-hoon, as one of the data supporting his argument, present 'crime statistics' related to lies in Japan and Korea (although the other data he mentions and its interpretation are largely flawed, There are a lot of serious errors out there).  "(In Korea) 1,400 people were charged with perjury in 2014 alone. That's 172 times that of Japan. Per capita per person, in terms of population, is 430 times that of Japan. It's 500 times. It's 1250 times per person in Japan (* Pen and Mic's column also mentions 'scams' and is missing from the book.) As you can see, Lee Young-hoon presents the number of charges of perjury and innocence in Korea and Japan as the basis for the introduction of Anti-Japanese Tribalism. This kind of comparison and interpretation is also enjoyed by the armor. Cho Gap-je sighs in a column entitled Lying Heaven Korea, Thousands of False Crimes in Japan (2013, New Daily). But the recent tide of liex will have something to do with the societal pervasiveness of the leftist agitation culture.” Cho Gap-je was "1198 persons accused of perjury in Korea as of 2000, 5 persons in Japan, 671 times that of Japan in terms of population ratio". "2965 persons accused of innocence in Korea and 2 persons in Japan. Considering the population ratio, it is 4151 times that of Japan." The number of people accused of fraud was 5,386 and 8269, respectively, 17 times more than Japan in terms of population. A similar report is given in the Japanese press. Japan's economic journal, Business Journal, reported in 2016. According to news reports in the Korean media, Business Journal said, "The fact that Koreans lie as if they are breathing cannot be denied," he said. "Lies and fraud have been prevalent throughout society. It's getting worse, and fraud crime is on the rise.” An article in the Business Journal stated, "In 2000, 1198 people were accused of perjury, 2956 innocent and 5,386 fraud, but in 2013, 3420 perjury, 6244 innocent, and 29,128 fraud. "This is 66 times more than Japan and 165 times more than the population," he pointed out. "In particular, the amount of fraud has reached 43 trillion won, which is evidence that Korea is the world's largest fraud and corruption power," Business Journal said. |
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