This article introduces the issues of anger-control disorder, personality disorders, conscription, and anti-Japanese opinion formation in South Korea, based on Katsumi Murotani’s book The Common Sense of the Anti-Japanese Tribe.
Reports in South Korea have pointed to possible interpersonal disorders among young men and the high proportion of “soldiers of concern” within the military.
This chapter examines how such social and psychological conditions combine with South Korea’s culture of verbal confrontation and political techniques for manipulating public opinion.
It reveals the structure by which anti-Japanese anger can quickly flare up in South Korean society.

March 18, 2020
The South Korean regime uses techniques of public negotiation on such groups in order to create public opinion.
The following is from The Common Sense of the Anti-Japanese Tribe, a book by Katsumi Murotani, a genuine journalist and one of the foremost experts on South Korea.
It is a book that must be read not only by the Japanese people but by people throughout the world.
It is a book that reveals the reality of South Korea, a reality that people throughout the world, like me, are learning for the first time.
Countries of bottomless evil and plausible lies also lie about their own realities.
In other words, they conceal the truth about themselves.
Newspaper companies such as the Asahi Shimbun, television media companies such as NHK, opposition-party political operatives, so-called human-rights lawyers, and civic groups that have been in league with South Korea have continued to hide the reality of South Korea revealed in this true book.
The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
Personality disorders are four times more common than in Europe and America.
It may be the same in any country, but the mass media sometimes make a huge fuss about something, and then, after a while, even though the matter has not been resolved, they completely forget about it.
Anger-control disorder was also the subject of great commotion in 2015, but recently one hardly sees articles that refer to it directly.
Likewise, there is another “mental-health problem” that once caused a great commotion but was soon forgotten.
It is the problem of personality disorders.
“Forty-five percent of twenty-year-old men may have interpersonal relationship disorders.
This figure is 2.5 to 4 times higher than the average of 11 to 18 percent in advanced countries such as the United States and European nations.”
This is from an article in the Dong-A Ilbo dated February 10, 2003.
It is far too shocking.
It is said to be the result of “a survey conducted by a psychiatric research team from Seoul National University College of Medicine on 5,971 twenty-year-old men who underwent physical examinations at the Military Manpower Administration.”
The research team announced that, in this survey, after measuring the presence or absence of personality disorders divided into 12 types, 71.2 percent of the subjects were suspected of having one or more types of personality disorder.
Specifically, the largest category was “obsessive-compulsive,” in which people are too fixated on themselves and cannot maintain smooth interpersonal relationships, at 49.4 percent.
Next came “avoidant,” in which people avoid rational problem-solving and involvement with others, at 34.7 percent.
Then came “histrionic,” egoistic, overly reactive even to trivial matters, and capricious, at 25.6 percent.
Then came “paranoid,” constantly suspecting others, at 22.6 percent.
Because the cutoff points for suspecting personality disorders differ depending on each country’s sociocultural background, even when the researchers raised the cutoff points in consideration of that factor and analyzed the data, the proportion of those with possible personality disorders was still much higher than in other countries.
Perhaps the figure of 45 percent refers to the proportion of people who have several disorders in combination.
Judging from the fact that “histrionic” is included among the categories, this survey may also have included anger-control disorder within the category of personality disorders.
In any case, I thought, “This is a problem that cannot be overlooked,” but South Korean society overlooked it.
Twenty percent of soldiers are in risk groups.
More than ten years later, at a frontline guard post, a soldier threw a hand grenade at his superior officer and fellow soldiers, fired his rifle indiscriminately, and deserted.
Leaving aside the fact that, upon hearing the explosion, the lieutenant in command of the guard post abandoned his subordinates and fled first, the article that summarized the material submitted by the Military Manpower Administration to the National Assembly in connection with this incident bore the headline, “Ten percent of all soldiers are ‘soldiers of concern’ with mental instability.”
It was an article in the Chosun Ilbo dated June 24, 2014.
The main points are as follows.
The Military Manpower Administration conducts personality tests on all those subject to conscription examinations.
Those in whom abnormalities are found in the first examination undergo a second examination, including individual interviews by clinical psychologists.
In 2012, among those in whom abnormalities were found in the second examination, 85 percent were judged fit to enlist and entered military service.
Behind this were a shortage of those eligible for military service due to the declining birthrate and the shortening of the military service period.
Soldiers classified as “soldiers of concern” because they cannot adapt to military life or may cause accidents reach 20 percent of the total when the relatively mild C grade is included.
Among the “soldiers of concern” in the army, navy, and air force, those in the A grade, corresponding to the high-risk group, account for 3.6 percent of all soldiers, or about 17,000 men.
If the B grade is included, the proportion is around 10 percent.
In the army alone, the number reaches about 40,000.
One is tempted to ask, “Is the South Korean military all right?”
But in a country with conscription, content analysis of soldiers is almost content analysis of the people themselves.
Therefore, one cannot help asking, “Are South Koreans all right?”
One tenth of adults have anger-control disorder requiring treatment, and among twenty-year-old males, 45 percent have interpersonal relationship disorders.
The South Korean regime uses techniques of public negotiation on such groups in order to create public opinion.
There, the culture of verbal combat, in which “the loudest voice is justice,” comes into play.
It is only natural that “anger toward Japan” flares up instantly.
No, before that, are there really no people suffering from anger-control disorder among the upper ranks of the regime and the military, or in the political and media worlds?
There is no way there are none.