Published on February 22, 2020.
This article cites a Sankei Shimbun report on President Trump’s remarks questioning the Academy Award for Best Picture given to the Korean film Parasite.
It further responds to the U.S. distributor’s retort against Trump by criticizing what the author sees as ignorance concerning South Korea’s postwar anti-Japanese education, its cultural reality, and problems surrounding its films and television dramas.

February 22, 2020
They probably do not even know Mr. Trump’s academic background, nor do they know that South Korea is a country that, for seventy-five years after the war, has continued to carry out outrageous Nazism under the name of anti-Japanese education.
The following is from today’s Sankei Shimbun.
Trump Dissatisfied with the Academy Awards
[Las Vegas, Nevada — Yoshinari Kurose]
On the 20th, U.S. President Trump expressed dissatisfaction that the South Korean film Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards, saying, “What the hell was that all about?”
He made the remarks at a supporters’ rally in the western state of Colorado.
Trump said, “We have various problems with South Korea in the area of trade.
And on top of that, they give it the title of the best movie of the year, the Best Picture award?
Was it that good?” questioning the selection, and added, “I thought it won Best Foreign Film.
Isn’t this unprecedented?”
He then brought up the 1939 American film Gone with the Wind, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, which won awards including Best Screenplay, and argued that such films should win.
“Please, bring back Gone with the Wind,” he said, calling for a remake.
In response, the U.S. distributor of Parasite fired back on Twitter, “Understandable.
He can’t read,” meaning the English subtitles.
＊I do not know what kind of company this U.S. distributor is, but they probably do not even know Mr. Trump’s academic background,
nor do they know that South Korea is a country that, for seventy-five years after the war, has continued to carry out outrageous Nazism under the name of anti-Japanese education.
They do not understand that true scholarship or art cannot exist in such a country.
They also do not know that the award-winning work is a plagiarism of an American B movie.
They probably also do not know that most of the TV dramas produced in that country are plagiarisms of Japanese television dramas, and that its historical dramas are complete nonsense.＊