A young South Korean—raised under anti-Japan indoctrination—reveals why he could no longer stay silent after the radar-lock incident.
Through independent study in Japan, he discovered historical facts hidden in Korea, from the realities of the comfort-women system to the money-driven nature of the forced-labor issue.
He exposes the Moon administration’s accelerated censorship, suppression of YouTube content, and manipulation of public opinion through anti-Japan propaganda.
Highlighting the disillusionment of Korea’s younger generation and the nation’s growing international isolation, the essay warns: Korea has no future if it continues its political “anti-Japan play.”

Many people who continue to live in South Korea have been educated under the belief that their mother country is always right.
Anti-Japan education begins when children are in elementary school.
The following is from the essay titled “A Life-Risking Confession by a Young Korean Resident in Japan—At This Rate, Korea Will Be Abandoned,” published in the May issue of the monthly magazine WiLL, written by WWUK, a video creator.
The radar-lock incident—A young Korean could no longer remain silent in the face of his mother country’s outrageous behavior.
Why I started making videos.
Nice to meet you. I am WWUK.
I currently run a YouTube channel called “WWUK TV,” posting daily videos mainly on South Korean political and diplomatic issues.
Why did I become interested in Japan–Korea issues and begin creating videos?
The trigger was a Japanese friend I became close with when I was a child.
When I lived in Australia as a middle-school student, I became friends with Japanese students at my school.
I couldn’t speak Japanese at first, but naturally learned it while spending time with them, and gradually felt a sense of discomfort: “This is completely different from the image of Japanese people taught in Korea.”
Most people who continue living in Korea are educated under a form of indoctrination that teaches that the mother country is always right.
Anti-Japan education begins in elementary school.
Impressionable children are taught that “Dokdo (Takeshima) is Korean territory,” and in middle school they are indoctrinated with the idea that “comfort women were sex slaves.”
All of it revolves around the narrative that Korea suffered terribly under “Japanese colonial rule.”
Certainly, the anti-Japan education in elementary school subtly influenced me as well.
However, since childhood I had heard the real stories of the era from my grandmother who lived through the Japanese rule, so I never once felt “I hate Japan.”
When I was in middle school, I became curious to search in Japanese and see what kind of information would appear.
I was shocked to find an overwhelming amount of information and sources completely unknown in Korea.
After graduating middle school, I entered a high school in Japan because I wanted to study Japanese more seriously.
While in high school, I independently researched history even more than before.
The more I researched, the more I learned unexpected facts: Japan had built infrastructure on the Korean Peninsula, and had established schools—things I had never heard of.
I wanted to share these truths with many more people.
So I decided to use YouTube, where people like KAZUYA were already active.
At first, I uploaded entertainment videos such as “product introductions” and “Korean language lessons not found in textbooks.”
I thought that extreme content exposing “the truth about Korea” would not be received well initially.
I decided not to touch on Japan–Korea issues for the time being.
However, the radar-lock incident was far too outrageous.
Even if it was my mother country, South Korea, there was no way to defend it.
Unable to tolerate it any longer, I made a video about Korean reactions to the radar-lock incident and uploaded it on December 30 last year.
The honest youth.
For today’s young Koreans, “anti-Japan sentiment” is frankly irrelevant.
They love Japanese anime and subculture, and are interested in Japanese food culture.
Many visit Shibuya, Harajuku, and Osaka.
If anything, I feel that the younger generation is more pro-Japanese.
However, the voices of young Koreans are barely heard in Japan—or even in Korea.
What gets attention are the voices of a portion of left-wing forces in their 40s to 60s.
And their voices are reported in Japan as if they represent the entire Korean population.
There is nothing more tragic than this.
Money is involved in almost every movement happening in Korea.
Especially in the current forced-labor issue.
It is said that about 1,000 sets of remains classified as forced laborers are buried in Monghyeon-dong, Busan, at the site of a former underground torpedo base, and the public is increasingly demanding: “Why did Moon Jae-in hide this?” and calling for an excavation investigation.
Furthermore, in December last year, 1,100 former forced-labor plaintiffs filed a complaint against the South Korean government, demanding compensation based on the Japan–Korea Claims Agreement (1965).
In Japan, many say, “Finally the truth will come out,” and that may indeed be the case.
However, since the families and relatives of the deceased are now filing claims, I believe they simply want compensation.
I don’t think a single one of them is motivated by a desire to “reveal the truth.”
The comfort-women issue is similar.
There were indeed women who became comfort women by their own decision.
But the majority were sold to Korean brokers by their own mothers.
Naturally, these women were lied to by their mothers and had no idea they were being sold.
Believing they were going to a job, they were taken to comfort stations.
No matter how much they worked, the money was taken by their mothers, and they themselves received nothing.
If so, they would not know they had been deceived or sold by fellow Koreans.
Therefore, they believed “The Japanese military forced us into sexual slavery,” and demanded compensation.
Recently, I often hear young Koreans in their twenties and thirties saying things like, “If we have money to build statues, we should use it to compensate the surviving women instead”—a completely reasonable opinion.
Regarding the radar-lock incident, many online comments say, “This is too embarrassing.”
Currently, as South Korea pushes toward “red reunification” with North Korea, rumors are spreading that “President Moon Jae-in is a North Korean spy.”
Such skeptical opinions toward the government certainly exist among young people.
While the Moon administration claims to be “future-oriented,” it refuses to end its habitual “anti-Japan play,” a long-standing tactic of the Korean government.
Young people are fed up with such contradictions.
Online, people say, “This country is finished,” and “We’ve never faced such a crisis before.”
Most people are surely thinking, “Instead of playing anti-Japan games, fix the economy first.”
Information control by the Moon administration.
Today, the Moon administration is attempting to deceive even its own citizens.
To achieve red reunification, the government does not want negative information to spread.
For years, Koreans pitied China for its censorship and speech suppression—yet ironically, they are now experiencing the same fate.
The Moon administration is rapidly tightening information control.
On February 11, it was revealed that the Korean authorities had contracted a private company to introduce software to block websites.
While the official explanation was “to block illegal overseas sites,” on March 3, Park Kwang-on, head of the Special Committee on Countermeasures against Disinformation—and known for proposing the “Historical Distortion Prohibition Act”—demanded that Google Korea delete and apologize for nine videos that described comfort women as “high-paid prostitutes.”
Even if factual, “criticism of Korea is hate speech, while criticism of Japan is freedom of expression”—this is Korea’s standard tactic.
This standard tactic of Korea—and the identical attitude of the Asahi Shimbun and so-called Japanese intellectuals who support it—is something the Japanese people must finally recognize.
Videos I know were deleted as well—especially those related to comfort women.
Not only the original uploads, but even re-uploads by users who liked the content.
This clearly means something.
User channels with many subscribers draw attention.
Small channels that merely watch and comment without posting videos are rarely targeted.
However, the Korean government is now specifically searching for content that supports “the truth about comfort women” or “the positive aspects of Japanese rule,” regardless of subscriber count.
Thus, videos are deleted indiscriminately.
As with the Historical Distortion Prohibition Act, the YouTube regulations have been barely reported in Korea.
While it appears in online news, one must scroll through five pages to find it.
The current South Korean government openly censors the press.
Park Kwang-on was almost unknown in Korea until this controversy.
He even uploaded a YouTube video titled “Google! Respect the History of Korea.”
It is obvious he is using anti-Japan sentiment to raise his own profile.
Perhaps he aims to become the next president.
Looking abroad.
PM2.5, once a major issue in Japan, is now a serious problem in Korea, and Seoul has become one of the world’s most polluted cities.
The causes include aging coal-fired power plants, factories, and emissions from poorly maintained diesel cars.
The Moon administration is trying desperately to divert the public’s attention to Japan.
Thus, the radar-lock incident and the subsequent series of anti-Japan actions are the result of Korea pushing various domestic problems onto Japan.
At this rate, Korea will be abandoned not only by Japan but by the entire world.
South Korea is currently allied with the United States.
However, if red reunification or a federal state is realized, the United States will surely classify Korea as a dangerous nation.
In December last year, the 10th round of talks on the Korea–U.S. Special Measures Agreement for defense cost-sharing was held in Seoul.
U.S. Ambassador Harry Harris proposed “a 1-year validity period and $1 billion burden.”
Previously, the term had been five years.
I believe this was the U.S. signaling that it will eventually sever ties with Korea.
In November last year, he even said, “The U.S.–ROK alliance should not be taken for granted.”
Although Korea seems eager to push the U.S. away, the U.S. may soon abandon Korea.
South Korea is full of problems.
Therefore, I intend to continue posting videos to convey the truth.
Another question I often receive from viewers is, “Will you naturalize as a Japanese citizen?”
I have considered naturalization since high school.
This decision is not specifically due to the recent events.
I simply love Japan and get along naturally with Japanese people.
I have long wished to live and die in Japan.
I am currently preparing the paperwork.
Staying in Korea can be dangerous.
A Korean user reported me with claims such as “Japan-resident traitor YouTuber discovered” and “Exposing the videos of a traitorous YouTuber.”
Some comments were close to threats, such as “We are watching you.”
After tweeting about these threats, journalist Jonetsu Tsukasa encouraged me, saying, “Keep going, we support you,” and even helped spread my tweet.
Of course, Korea is my mother country and a beloved homeland.
However, I am completely pessimistic about Korea’s future.
Korea has countless domestic issues that should be solved before indulging in anti-Japan political games.
Unless the government faces and resolves these issues, Korea has no bright future.