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Post by Admin on Sept 3, 2019 20:31:13 GMT
Co-author Lee Young-hoon, University of Seoul National University, Lee U-yeon, Researcher Nakseong University Economics, and Professor Nak-Yeon Kim (Economics), a co-author of the Japanese military 'comfort women' and the book 'Anti-Japanese Tribalism', which denies the forced mobilization of Japanese colonial rule, turned out to be one. As a result, it is pointed out that the narrative was used for colonial beautification. Lawmaker Kim Jong-hoon, a member of the National Assembly's National Science and Technology Information and Communications Commission, made public the data submitted by the Korea Research Foundation on Tuesday. According to the data submitted by the Korea Research Foundation, the Naksung University Economic Research Institute received a total of 1.2 billion won from the government between 2002 and 2008. Naksung University Economic Research Institute conducted the research under the responsibility of former professor, Kim, and researcher using this funding. Lee is the chairman of Naksung University Economic Research Institute. Specifically, former professor Lee spent 416.96 million won for three years from 2005 on the theme of 'Economic System of the Joseon Dynasty-Early Finance and Market' in the early 18th-20th century. In 2002, under the theme of 'Maintenance, Estimation, and Consolidation of Economic Statistics during the Post-Liberation Statistic Period (1940-60)', the member was entitled 'A Study on the Chosun-Colonial Forest Ownership System and Clinical Change'. Received 10 million won. Although not co-author of <Anti-Japanese Tribalism>, Professor Cha Myung-soo, Youngnam University (Economics and Finance), who was named a research institute, received hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding. Mr. Kim said, “They have recently been criticized for publishing a book called “Anti-Japanese Tribalism” to beautify Japanese colonial rule in Japan. It's spreading.” Controversy over Anti-Japanese Tribalism continues. In a regular meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 2, the researcher replied that the Koreans voluntarily became laborers, denying the forced mobilization. The researcher recently went directly to Japan's right-wing to advocate colonial rule in Japan. According to the report of UPI News, the researcher appeared on Prime News on the evening news program of Japanese satellite channel Fuji (BS) Fuji on the 16th. The draft was also legal. Wages were paid fairly, regardless of whether Japanese or Korean. Rather, Korean wages were higher.” The researcher said, “The comfort women were not sex slaves. The Girl Award is itself a historical distortion."
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Post by Admin on Sept 5, 2019 19:15:49 GMT
Foreign journalists working in Korea held a meeting with former Seoul National University Professor Lee Young-hoon (now President of Rhee Syngman Rhee), the author of <Anti-Japanese Tribalism>, which has provoked controversy over pro-Japanese controversy by denying Japanese military slavery. There is concern that distorted perceptions of Northeast Asian history will spread. The Seoul Foreign Press Club, which consists of 300 foreign journalists in Seoul, invites former professor Lee Young-hoon to the Q & A session on <Anti-Japanese Tribalism>. The Seoul Foreign Press Club said, “Last month we invited victims of compulsory recruitment. It's a place to ask and respond to socially problematic parties.” A foreign journalist in the US-American region said, “Inviting guests to hear opinions on issues rather than regular ones. I don't mind people who are politically biased because they recognize freedom of expression. If it is not worth it as international news, it is only a reference and not an article.” However, even if the article is not dealt with, the preponderance is that it will be the place to go beyond the explanation of the pro-Japanese controversy or to develop a one-sided argument. It is also likely that Lee's biased view of Japanese colonial rule will spread abroad. Former Professor Lee Young-hoon, a representative of New Light, is accused of threatening the freedom of the press due to pro-Japanese controversy and assault of journalists. In the midst of the anti-Japanese sentiment due to Japan's economic retaliation due to the compulsory punishment, former professor Lee argued that he was forced to deny compulsory recruitment and damage to the Japanese military 'comfort women'. He went to see the position and listened to the verbal abuse. Since then, the broadcasting-independent citizens' action, which consists of 241 media and civic groups, visited Seoul National University in protest. Jung Yeon-woo, co-chairman of Independence Citizens' Action (Professor Semyung University) said, “It is good for foreign reporters to find out the problems of this book and to reveal their consciousness in order to find the truth. It is dangerous because it can distort the perceptions of people around the world. ”
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Post by Admin on Sept 19, 2019 3:33:40 GMT
What is anti-Japanese tribalism? Anti-Japanese tribalism is an exclusive emotion lurking in the minds of Koreans today about Japan's 36-year history of colonial rule in the first half of the 20th century. According to this worldview, pro-Japanese is evil, anti-Japanese is good, and only Japan among the neighboring countries of Korea is recognized as an evil race. The Syngman Rhee has nothing to do with historical facts, but it is a very hypocritical and emotional international sensation that proclaimed to the people of the entire origin and I designed this book to warn about the explosive danger of formation, proliferation and raging of anti-Japanese tribalism. The themes that the authors dealt with in this book are about the myths of today's Koreans regarding the history of Japan's rule over Korea in the first half of the 20th century. The authors argue for how vulnerable that myth is. Perhaps many Koreans are offended by this attempt. But Korea has now become a lying heaven by anti-Japanese tribalism. Shamanism, materialism, and tribalism go deeply together. In the world of shamanism, both are dead and dead, and the bell is dead. In the chain of life and death there is no absolute distinction or good judgment between good and evil. It is the path of eternal salvation for a human soul to be a good man at all costs. Thus, a materialistic society was established in which justification, either lying or money, was necessary to promote to full standing. There is no shared value or truth among political opposition groups in materialist society. If two groups collide, no objective argument is allowed to reconcile them. One group rejects and opposes the other for his material achievement. There is no category of 'free individual' in the group. Individuals are enslaved to the group and accept the group's interests, goals, and leaders as indiscriminateness. This group is a 'race'. Politics based on these groups is tribalism. Professor Lee Young-hoon and other authors believe that Korean politics has such characteristics of tribalism. A good example is the regional sentiment that governs the politics of this country. When Korea's political culture reaches foreign relations with Japan, it erupts into intense racialism. Underlying anti-Japanese tribalism lies historically formed hostility. Hostility toward China has historically been rare. So there is no anti-Chinese tribalism. On the contrary, China takes the position of secularism. There is no category of free individual in Korean nationalism. The attitude toward Japan and China, two neighboring countries, is also imbalanced due to its immature worldview. So the authors argue that Korean nationalism should be called tribalism. 'Anti-Japanese tribalism' refers to a phenomenon in which the Republic of Korea is transforming into a similar religion level with the anti-Japanese religious colors unique to the Republic of Korea, rather than the universal state of the common law (the state of liberal camp). Against the backdrop of anti-Japanese tribalism gaining momentum after the so-called democratization, the intention of the left was to induce Japanese anti-Japanese sentiment that was latent by Korean rulers, to direct criticism of the atrocities committed by North Korea and the communists to Japan. Contrary to the amplification of anti-Japanese incitement, the alarm about the communist groups in North Korea and China disappeared.
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Post by Admin on Oct 1, 2019 20:31:29 GMT
“I have a somewhat unique view on relations with Japan,” said author and academic Lee Young-hoon. Given his latest work, that is a masterpiece of understatement. For the vast majority of South Koreans, the 1910-1945 colonization of their country by militarist Japan is a black-and-white story of villainy and victimhood. The darkest period in more than 2,000 years of history, it was marked by economic exploitation, cultural desecration, savage brutality, forced labor and sex slavery, they believe. This narrative is taught in schools and reinforced in mass media and popular culture, where heroic resistance and abused victimhood are evergreen themes in the film industry. “If I were to define anti-Japanese (feeling) it would be unconditional and absolute antagonism that does not change,” Lee told foreign reporters in Seoul last week. However, Lee does not buy it – and has said so in his book Korea’s Anti-Japanese Tribalism. Thanks, apparently, to its incendiary viewpoint, the book, lead-authored by Lee and with five co-authors, has topped best-seller charts at South Korea’s leading bookstore chain for three weeks. Inside its covers, Lee courts massive controversy as he takes on Korea’s vast corpus of anti-Japanese sentiment. He slams Korea’s education system and politics, argues that Imperial Japan was, while oppressive, a force for modernity in its colony, and above all, questions the conventional wisdom on forced laborers and “comfort women.” Lee, a professor emeritus in economics at Seoul National University, the country’s leading educational institute, based his work on a series of lectures delivered late last year and early this year. Rather than relying heavily or exclusively on personal accounts that have emerged from victims since the 1990s, he deploys a wide range of data – ranging from official colonial-era statistics to comfort women’s postal ledgers, military brothel rules and regulations and accounting books from Japanese mines. He asserts that amicable relations with Japan would be a plus for South Korea, for regional democracy and for market economics. But at present, “a lot of antagonistic emotions toward Japan are hindering our progress,” he said.
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Post by Admin on Oct 1, 2019 23:12:56 GMT
Dissecting tribalistic nationalism As per his title, Lee calls into question Korean nationalism – a dynamic that floats in a deep well of anti-Japanese sentiment. Labeling such sentiment “unscientific” and “shamanistic,” the author prefers the term “tribalism” to “nationalism.” Korea’s liberation in 1945 was not achieved by Korea itself but was a byproduct of the Allied victory, he said. Due to this historical chip on the shoulder, “Koreans are mired in a chaos of their own identity … The common idea is that there is a division between left and right – but in fact, it is an identity crisis over history and a search for our true identity.” Lee says he was moved to write the book after an experience with his granddaughter. “One day, my granddaughter came home from kindergarten and said, ‘Japan is our enemy,’” he recalled. “So, we should take a look at what kind of education is being taught: It is teaching ‘evil.’” Since the early 1990s, a “history war” has been underway. Seoul raises colonial-era atrocities and demands apologies and compensation. Tokyo compensates or apologizes, but the compensation is refused and the apology derided on grounds of insincerity. The process repeats. Even so, these ill feelings, for decades, were restricted within diplomatic and historical boundaries. But with Seoul’s leftist Moon Jae-in administration facing off against Tokyo’s rightist Shinzo Abe administration, the dispute has leapt all firewalls. Impacts have been felt in the economic space– both nations have withdrawn preferential trade status from the other – and the military sphere – Seoul has nixed an intelligence-sharing pact that was the only military agreement linking the two Northeast Asian democracies. Lee compares the current situation to war and its corollary, propaganda. “In war, it does not matter if a leader tells the truth or not,” he said. “That is the emotional situation we are in.”
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