A 2016 report by the Sankei Shimbun on the planned installation of a comfort woman statue in Freiburg, Germany, exposes how fabricated historical narratives are accepted without scrutiny. By falsely framing South Korea as a victim of World War II, Korean media narratives—and their uncritical reception in Europe—raise serious questions about historical literacy and intellectual responsibility.

2016-09-09
The following is an article published yesterday on page 6 of the Sankei Shimbun, and upon reading it, I immediately sensed once again the presence of a nation defined by “bottomless malice” and “plausible lies.”
The emphasis marked by asterisks is mine, and it represents the truth of the matter.

A Comfort Woman Statue to Be Installed in Germany Within the Year
The First in Europe, by a South Korean Sister City

According to reports, comfort woman statues already erected in South Korea as well as in the United States and Australia are now to be installed in Germany for the first time in Europe.
Multiple South Korean media outlets report that the mayor of Suwon City in Gyeonggi Province, which has a sister-city relationship with Freiburg in southwestern Germany, proposed a joint installation to the mayor of Freiburg in May, and received a positive response.

A final agreement between the mayors was reached at the end of August.
The statue is scheduled to be jointly installed in central Freiburg on December 10, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with a commemorative ceremony planned.

South Korean media praise Germany as a “model nation of apology,” while criticizing Japan by stating that,
“Japan, which hesitates to apologize and reflect toward countries harmed by war, contrasts sharply with Germany, as it pressures the removal of the girl statue in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul following last year’s Japan–South Korea agreement.”

Any person possessing a sound mind and accurate historical knowledge would naturally ask, what is this.
“Japan hesitates to apologize to war victim nations.”

Since when, exactly, did South Korea become a victim nation of World War II.
It was never even a battlefield, and as an annexed territory, Japan avoided mobilizing Koreans in every respect, making wartime Korea so peaceful that the elderly know it was hardly conceivable as a country at war.

Even if it is a country where an elderly man who truthfully stated that “life under Japanese rule was good” could be beaten to death by young people, this lie is far too egregious.

Even worse is the intellectual poverty of South Korean media, which, failing to notice even such an obvious falsehood, shamelessly brandish pseudo-moralism inherited from the Asahi Shimbun.

The Korean Peninsula became a battlefield only after World War II had long ended, when internal ethnic conflict escalated into a proxy war between the United States and the Soviet Union, and between the United States and Communist China, from June 25, 1950, until the armistice on July 27, 1953.

What kind of education, intelligence, or mental structure do the citizens of Freiburg possess, to calmly believe and agree with such historical fabrication.
Surely, it cannot be that they remain trapped in the Nazi era.