From: kim@magneto.physics.auburn.edu (Han-jung Kim)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: What do most of Japanese think of Korean (Re: An open letter..)
Date: 21 Aug 92 23:05:58 GMT
Reply-To: kim@magneto.physics.auburn.edu (Han-jung Kim)
Organization: Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Message-I.D.: <21AUG199202414427@juliet.caltech.edu>Lines: 89


 In article <21AUG199202414427@juliet.caltech.edu> tychay@juliet.caltech.edu (Chay, Terrence Y.) writes:
>teachers, how high school students would make fun of my mom's friend by
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>mimicing her father's accent (apparently having something to do with how
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>Koreans have trouble saying "One, Two, Three" in Japanese-- my mom, luckily,

>was exempt from _this_particular_ ridicule as her father strove to speak
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> To the participants in this flame war:  From you, I have have learned many 
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>_facts_ (and a few falsehoods =]) about chinese, japanese and korean culture
>and history that i did not know, as well as been exposed to arguments 
>concerning the issues of apologies that I did not know or consider previously.
>Thank You.
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>          -terrychay

Sorry about the story of your mother in Korea. That is the reason why
we dig in this topic on this network. If there is prejudice our edlers
have planted in us wihtout any concrete evidence, we must try to remove that.
If we find out the number of evidence which make other people's heart broken,
we must try to appology and to correct them.

I do not think that so many posting skipped away thru this network are in vain.
Of course, there were several persons who were so offensive and agressive to
the topic but I was happy that there is a group which is looking for the truth
and try to understand and to solve the problems if any.

You can call this net 'FLAME WAR', but I'd rather call it just 'DISCUSSION',
whether it goes to negative side or positive side. (hope it goes positively).

I have a question I have ever kept in my mind since I began to recognize the
confilic between two contries. I wish you may let me
learn some about it, if you are willing to.

As a korean, I understand why majority (probably 60-70% of all koreans?, just 
guess) of koreans have bad feeling about Japanese as well as Japan herself,
and how much they feel good whenver korean atheletes
defeat Japan. 

Becasue Korea has been once occupied by Japan and suffered.

However in my feeling and from the side news or whatever, most of Japanese
have a bad feeling against Korean too. 

This is the point I can not understand so far. Koreans did some harm to
Japanese? or Japanese has found something they dislike in korean, such as 
not well educated, filthy etc.

One time when I went church of American-Korean's, a priest from Japan
had ministered that church. He often mentioned how the Koreans living
in Japan have been discriminated by Japanese people.( or Japanese gover't?).
I asked his wife that why then korean in Japan change the cityzenship from
korea to Japan as similiary to that koreans in USA do when they have chance.
She told that such a kind of position transformation did not make real help.
Then she did not continue talking.

I have though that the koreans living in Japan may have some problems which
the Japanese hate to see or to be with.( more crime rate, lazy, more lie ...)

Or Japanese has a kind of another prejudice against koreans in Japan.
To tell the truth, I do not know why if this problem exsist in today's Japan.
 In my mind Japanese have no reason to dislike korean in Japan. 
As a one-time occupier on Korea pennisular, why Japanese dislike Korean?

 Really I do not have any base which can make me understood.

Would you give some back ground story happening in Japan of today. 
The more honest, the more valuable to me.

I do not mind if you descibe the bad behavior or write to insult koreans in
Japan. What I want to hear is the point of view from the middle class of
Japanese and their concepts over Korean.

Maybe lots of new generation of Japane do not have any idea about this 
issue and do not mind what happens with the relation between two contries.
But if there are some japanese who want to share your honest opinion and
what you think now, it will help some of koreans to find out the position 
of koreans of today through those opinions form the most of Japanese people,
 then korean may be able to see herself and be able to correct to be better
country in the futuer.

Thany you for saying your story via this network.  

                        Hanjung Kim from Alabama.
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