The Syngman Rhee Era Was the True Beginning of South Korea’s Misfortune—The Jeju Uprising and the Roots of Anti-Japanese Historical Education.

Published on October 17, 2019.
Beginning with the author’s search into South Korea and the Korean Peninsula after being astonished by President Lee Myung-bak’s late-term conduct, this article discusses the Syngman Rhee era, the Jeju Uprising, the invasion of Takeshima, the attempted invasion of Tsushima, and the roots of South Korea’s anti-Japanese historical education.

October 17, 2019.
Astonished and appalled by President Lee Myung-bak’s conduct toward the end of his term, I wondered what on earth South Korea was as a country, and searched the Internet about South Korea and the Korean Peninsula… in one hour, I understood the reality of the Korean Peninsula.
The first evil act committed by Syngman Rhee was the “Jeju Uprising,” in short, a massacre of communists and islanders suspected of being communists.
This is a chapter republished on January 18, 2019, under that title.
Only by knowing these facts should one be able to understand what is happening in South Korea now.
The chapter I published on December 5, 2018, under that title is ranked in the top 30 searches on Ameba.
Astonished and appalled by President Lee Myung-bak’s conduct toward the end of his term, I wondered what on earth South Korea was as a country, and searched the Internet about South Korea and the Korean Peninsula… in one hour, I understood the reality of the Korean Peninsula.
As a person who had received postwar education and had been a subscriber to the Asahi Shimbun, I learned for the first time the reality of South Korea, which I had never understood at all.
As for North Korea, even without searching, anyone can understand that it is a country so terrible that words cannot describe it.
A little while ago, I discovered yet another article that embodies the essence of the Internet, the greatest library in human history.
Only by knowing these facts should one be able to understand what is happening in South Korea now.
In other words, unless one knows these facts, one cannot understand Koreans… and that is extremely dangerous for the Japanese.
Just as I personally encountered an evil so great that it led me to a grave illness in which I nearly lost my life, in fact Japan has long continued to encounter this evil… has continued to be exposed to it.
Not only against Japan, they have made the United States and the United Nations their main battlefields and have continued to spread their evil there.
The truth revealed by this painstaking work is the true nature of anti-Japanese propaganda.
Against Japan, which, alongside the United States, must lead the world as a country where, by divine providence, The Turntable of Civilization is turning…,
the world has overlooked the fact that countries of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” such as the Korean Peninsula and China, have continued for seventy postwar years to carry out Nazism under the name of anti-Japanese education.
The time has long since come to realize that God’s anger at this has left the world unstable and made it a world in which conflicts never cease.
The fact that I have appeared in this way, reluctantly, carrying The Turntable of Civilization, was in truth far more important for Japan and the world than either I or my readers could ever have imagined.
The following is the article I discovered.
It was after reading a South Korean history textbook.
The Japanese were depicted as cold-blooded and ruthless “devils.”
Modern Japan was made out to have done “nothing but slaughter and plunder” to Korea.
◆Why Did South Korea Rewrite History? Considering the Motives and Background, Part Two.
Yamada Takaaki.
The Syngman Rhee era, which became the beginning of South Korea’s true misfortune.
Now, let us return to the main subject.
With Japan’s defeat, the right to govern Korea was transferred from the Governor-General’s Office to the United States.
At first, various factions were in turmoil over nation-building, and the Soviet Union quickly set up a puppet.
The provisional government and the independence army themselves were not recognized, but Syngman Rhee personally, who came from that government, had studied in the United States and had engaged in lobbying there, and so in the end he was elevated to the head of an anti-communist puppet regime.
However, the selfish demand that “South Korea should be added to the Allied powers” was rejected.
That was because it was considered that those who had not fought and shed blood had no right to push themselves forward.
Therefore, when Koreans call themselves “people of a victorious nation” or “people of an Allied nation,” that is simply contrary to fact.
One cannot help feeling sympathy regarding the fact that this person seized dictatorial power as the first president.
The period from Rhee’s return to Korea until his exile was a “dark age,” and it is abnormal that contemporary Koreans lack this memory.
In many senses, this Syngman Rhee himself was the root of all evil, and his era was precisely the very image of the “Japanese Empire” depicted in South Korean historical education.
The first evil act committed by Syngman Rhee was the “Jeju Uprising,” in short, a massacre of communists and islanders suspected of being communists.
As a result, tens of thousands of civilians were killed, and other tens of thousands fled to Japan and settled there.
The massacres continued afterward as well, and the island’s population drastically decreased.
Although smaller in scale, similar massacres were carried out in other regions as well.
When one speaks of Syngman Rhee’s war crimes against Japan, the invasion and seizure of Japanese territory, Takeshima, and the massacre of Japanese fishermen are famous, but in fact, before that, he tried to invade Tsushima.
While he was concentrating military forces at the southern tip of South Korea for that purpose, he was struck by North Korea’s lightning invasion.
Since he could massacre even his own people without hesitation, it is not difficult to imagine that the South Korean army would have committed a great massacre on Tsushima.
To be continued.