It tends to be based less on concrete experience or research than on broad concepts, and there is a strong tendency to use a free hand in imagining Japan in accordance with anti-Japanese ideology. Conversely, there are also works that take Japan as an object of admiration. In these, Japanese technology, organizational ability, and diligence are typically brought up in contrast to Korea's domestic problems. I find myself in complete sympathy with the author's observations, and find the situation lamentable. Characterized by ambivalent emotions that engender simultaneous feelings of superiority and inferiority, repulsion and attraction, the majority seem negatively disposed toward Japan.
Vigilance is stressed over trust, confrontation over cooperation.
There is a pervasive tendency to regard Japan as monolithic, and to ignore the individual, regional and historical variations. I well remember how much time I myself took to unravel and bring some level of clarity to my initial complex feelings toward Japan. When I mentioned the prospect of going to Japan for graduate study to my professors in Korea, they were unanimously against it. There's nothing there worthy of the name of scholarship, only copies of the West. And then, of course, you'll be discriminated against and harassed because you're Korean.