Published on July 18, 2019.
This essay discusses the 1910 Japan-Korea annexation, the modernization of the Korean Peninsula under Japanese rule, the dismantling of the yangban system, and criticism of Kim Gu, Syngman Rhee, and Moon Jae-in, while examining the roots of the status-discrimination system on the Korean Peninsula and postwar anti-Japanese education.
It also refers to Le Clézio and argues that mistaken assumptions about the Korean Peninsula must be corrected.

July 18, 2019.
Japan accepted this, and over thirty-six years, every year, invested more than twenty percent of its national budget into the Korean Peninsula, and in the process modernized Korea, which had been one of the poorest countries in the world, all at once.
The following is a chapter published on February 28, 2019.
If I remember correctly, Kim Gu was a man who belonged to the yangban class.
In other words, Kim Gu’s abnormal hatred toward Japan and the Japanese people was caused by the following: in 1910, the Korean Empire, on the verge of national bankruptcy, resolved upon annexation by Japan and requested it from Japan; Japan accepted this, and over thirty-six years, every year, invested more than twenty percent of its national budget into the Korean Peninsula, and in the process modernized Korea, which had been one of the poorest countries in the world, all at once; during that process, Japan saw through the fact that what had kept the Korean Peninsula as an ancient despotic state, and the root of all their evils, lay in the worst status-discrimination system in human history, one more finely divided than India’s caste system, and Japan broke through Korea’s status-discrimination system all at once.
As a result, the yangban, the discriminatory class that had completely trampled over the Korean Peninsula, was dismantled.
That resentment was likely the cause of Kim Gu’s abnormal hatred toward Japan.
In any case, he was a rotten man from beginning to end.
Moon Jae-in, who openly says that he most respects such a man, is the worst president in history, even more so than Kim Gu.
The world must recognize this through this chapter so that it never forgets it again.
Syngman Rhee, who after the war began seventy years of anti-Japanese education that was Nazism itself, 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, as privileged classes, had trampled over the country during almost all its history.
It was the world’s worst finely divided status-discrimination system, and even scholars were a discriminated class.
Even prostitutes were divided into government slaves and private slaves; the yangban, whose principle was not to work, continued to commit every kind of violence and outrage against the discriminated classes in their own domains.
After the war, Koreans who did not obey GHQ’s order and did not return to the Korean Peninsula but remained in Japan, Koreans who fled to Japan during Syngman Rhee’s many acts of oppression and massacre, especially the Jeju Incident, which was a great massacre, and Japanese people brainwashed by GHQ wrote manga such as Kamui Gaiden, which symbolically replaced the cruelty of the yangban on the Korean Peninsula with Japanese people.
Likewise, the massacres now depicted in facilities set up in South Korea as anti-Japanese propaganda for children and foreign travelers are all portrayals of the ways in which Koreans, since the beginning of recorded history, have done as they pleased to their own people, to the people of the discriminated classes.
Every person throughout the world must recognize this through this chapter so that they never forget it again.
Le Clézio, who is another me in this world, must also immediately correct his mistaken assumptions about Korea so that he never stains 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 resulting from evil deeds and foolishness has some kind of meaning, then it is a hopeless matter.