Published on August 11, 2019. This article discusses the Moon Jae-in administration’s information control, demands to delete comfort-women-related videos, the proposed law banning historical distortion, South Korea’s domestic air-pollution problems, the weakening of the U.S.–South Korea alliance, and the reality of South Korean politics that diverts public attention outward through anti-Japanese playacting.

2019-08-11
Needless to say, it is no mere coincidence that this usual South Korean tactic and the attitude of Asahi Shimbun and the so-called cultural figures who go along with it are exactly alike.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The Moon administration’s information control
Now the Moon administration is trying to deceive even the South Korean people.
In order to realize red unification, it does not want to release information unfavorable to the government.
Until now, South Korea had looked at China and thought, “How pitiful that they are subjected even to internet regulation, information control, and suppression of speech,” yet ironically, now they themselves are suffering the same fate.
The Moon administration is rapidly advancing information control.
On February 11, it became a topic of discussion that the South Korean authorities had asked a private company to introduce software for blocking websites.
This was said to have been introduced “for the purpose of blocking illegal overseas sites,” but on March 3, Park Gwang-on, the supreme committee member of the Special Committee on Countermeasures against False and Manipulated Information, also known for having proposed the “Act Prohibiting Historical Distortion,” demanded that Google Korea delete nine items and apologize, including videos describing comfort women as “prostitutes who received high remuneration.”
Even if it is fact, “criticism of South Korea is hate, and criticism of Japan is freedom of expression” is South Korea’s usual tactic.
＊Needless to say, it is no mere coincidence that this usual South Korean tactic and the attitude of Asahi Shimbun and the so-called cultural figures who go along with it are exactly alike.＊
Among the videos I know, about five comfort-women-related videos had also been deleted.
Moreover, it was not the videos uploaded by the person who made them, but the videos re-uploaded by users who liked those videos that were deleted.
What on earth does this mean?
On YouTube, the more subscribers a channel has, the more attention it receives.
Therefore, small channels that basically do not create videos and only watch or comment are, for better or worse, outside the view of YouTube’s operators.
However, the current South Korean government is carefully searching only for content related to “military comfort women” and content that affirms “the period of Japanese rule.”
Therefore, regardless of subscriber numbers, videos are being deleted without regard.
As with the Act Prohibiting Historical Distortion, these regulations on YouTube videos have hardly been publicly reported in South Korea.
They have technically appeared as internet news, but they are in places that cannot be seen unless one advances about five pages, and they are almost completely inconspicuous.
Today’s South Korea is openly engaging in press regulation as well.
Supreme committee member Park has low name recognition in South Korea, and before this uproar, he was a person whose name almost never came up.
He has also posted a video on his own YouTube channel titled “Google! Respect the History of the Republic of Korea.”
It is perfectly obvious that his intention is to use anti-Japanese sentiment to raise his own status.
By standing out here, he may be aiming to become the next president.
Turning eyes abroad
At present, PM2.5, which became a topic even in Japan, has become a problem in South Korea, and air pollution has become such a problem that Seoul is said to rank first in pollution among cities.
The causes are said to be aging coal-fired power plants, manufacturing factories, and exhaust gas from poorly maintained automobiles, mainly diesel vehicles.
Including this, the Moon administration is all the more desperate to turn the eyes of the people toward Japan.
Therefore, this series of “anti-Japanese playacting,” beginning with the radar-illumination incident, means that South Korea has pushed various problems onto Japan, and as a result the matter has become this serious.
If things continue like this, South Korea will be abandoned not only by Japan but by the world as well.
At present, South Korea has an alliance relationship with the United States.
However, if red unification, or a federal state, is realized, the United States will surely count South Korea as a dangerous country.
Last December, the tenth meeting was held at the South Korean presidential office toward the conclusion of the Special Measures Agreement on sharing South Korea–U.S. defense costs, to be applied from 2019.
At that meeting, the conditions asserted by Harry Harris, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea, were “one billion dollars in cost sharing and a one-year validity period for the agreement.”
He proposed that the validity period, which had traditionally been five years, be one year.
I believe this was an expression of America’s intention, looking ahead, to eventually part ways with South Korea.
Furthermore, in November of last year, he even said, “The South Korea–U.S. alliance must not be taken for granted.”
South Korea wants to push America away, but America may soon abandon South Korea first.
In this way, South Korea is full of problems.
Therefore, I intend to continue posting videos in order to convey the truth.
Also, viewers often ask me one more thing: “Will you not naturalize?”
I have been thinking about naturalization since I was in high school.
It is not especially because of this incident.
I simply love Japan, and I get along well with Japanese people.
I have long thought that I want to live in Japan and end my life in Japan.
I am now preparing the documents.
There is also the fact that my safety would be in danger if I were in South Korea.
A certain South Korean YouTuber denounced me with phrases such as “Found a traitorous YouTuber residing in Japan” and “Video of traitorous YouTuber finally released,” and in the video there were even remarks close to threats, such as “I am always watching you.”
After that, when I posted on Twitter that I had been denounced and threatened, Uen念司 sent me words of encouragement, saying, “Please keep doing your best. I support you!” and even helped spread the tweet.
Of course, South Korea is my mother country and my beloved homeland.
However, regarding South Korea’s future, I am completely pessimistic.
South Korea has piles of domestic issues that should be solved before engaging in anti-Japanese playacting.
I want the South Korean government to face these problems properly and solve them.
If it keeps repeating anti-Japanese playacting, South Korea will have no bright future.