Published on July 23, 2019.
This essay discusses historical perceptions of the Korean Peninsula and Japan through criticism of yangban rule, the caste-like status system, the status of women, Kim Ku, Syngman Rhee, Moon Jae-in, Japan’s modernization of Korea, postwar anti-Japanese education, GHQ’s influence on Japanese people, and works such as the manga “Kamui Gaiden.”

July 23, 2019.
Until 1910, women on the Korean Peninsula had no names… because women were the property of the yangban.
The Korean Peninsula was a region where only the king and the yangban existed as privileged classes and trampled the country underfoot for almost all of its history.
This is a chapter I republished on July 18, 2019, under the title “As Symbolized by Manga Such as ‘Kamui Gaiden,’ Written by Japanese People Brainwashed by GHQ Who Replaced the Cruelty of the Yangban on the Korean Peninsula with Japanese Cruelty.”
If I remember correctly, Kim Ku was a man who belonged to the yangban class.
In other words, Kim Ku’s abnormal hatred toward Japan and the Japanese probably arose from the following.
In 1910, the Korean Empire, on the verge of national bankruptcy, resolved to be annexed by Japan, requested this of Japan, and Japan accepted it.
For 36 years, Japan invested more than 20 percent of its national budget every year into the Korean Peninsula, and in the process of rapidly modernizing Korea, which had been one of the poorest countries in the world,
Japan saw through the fact that what had left the Korean Peninsula as an ancient despotic state, the root of all their evils, was the worst status-discrimination system in human history, more finely subdivided than India’s caste system, and Japan broke down Korea’s status-discrimination system at once.
As a result, the yangban, the discriminating class that had completely trampled the Korean Peninsula underfoot, were dismantled.
That resentment was probably the cause of Kim Ku’s abnormal hatred toward Japan.
In any case, he was a rotten man from beginning to end.
Moon Jae-in, who publicly states that he most respects such a man, is the worst president in history, even more so than Kim Ku.
The world must recognize this through this chapter and never forget it again.
Syngman Rhee, who began anti-Japanese education that was itself Nazism for 70 years after the war, was also from a fallen yangban family.
In other words, this man too was rotten from beginning to end.
Until 1910, women on the Korean Peninsula had no names… because women were the property of the yangban.
The Korean Peninsula was a region where only the king and the yangban existed as privileged classes and trampled the country underfoot for almost all of its history.
It was the world’s worst finely subdivided status-discrimination system, in which even scholars belonged to a discriminated class.
Even prostitutes were divided into official slaves and private slaves… the yangban made it their principle not to work, and continued to commit every kind of violence and outrage against the discriminated classes on their own lands.
After the war, Koreans who did not obey GHQ’s order to return to the Korean Peninsula and remained in Japan, Koreans who fled to Japan during Syngman Rhee’s many acts of oppression and massacre, including the Jeju Island Incident, which was a great massacre, and Japanese people brainwashed by GHQ, wrote works such as the manga “Kamui Gaiden,” in which the cruelty of the yangban on the Korean Peninsula was replaced with Japanese cruelty.
Similarly, the massacres and other scenes now depicted in facilities in South Korea as anti-Japanese propaganda for children and foreign tourists are all modes of behavior that Koreans themselves have carried out freely against their own people, against the people of the discriminated classes, since the beginning of their recorded history.
Every person in the world must recognize this through this chapter and never forget it again.
Le Clézio, who is another me in this world, must immediately correct his mistaken assumptions about Korea so that he will never stain his later years.
You should know that your assumptions about the Korean Peninsula are no different from the commercialism called tourism by Westerners that you criticized, and that they are foolish and shallow.
If you think that extreme poverty, as the result of evil deeds and foolishness, has some meaningful value, then there is no saving you.