Reddit reviews Korea and Her Neighbors (Kegan Paul Travellers Series)

> Schools and universities forbade speaking Korean

This is a lie, Hangul was even taught in schools, Hangul was previously banned before Japanese rule

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>During the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, outraged South Koreans demanded an apology from NBC after a commentatorasserted that Korea’s transformation into a global powerhouse was due to the “cultural, technological and economic example” of Japan. For many South Koreans, analyst Joshua Cooper Ramo’s statement reopened old wounds—ones carved by a generation of occupation of the country by Japan.

Except he's factually correct, Japan improved quality of life, average life expectancy, education, infrastructure and much more.

Korea didn't even have a money system before Japan they used barter and they were one of the poorest countries

>Any reasonable person familiar with the history of Japanese imperialism, and the atrocities it committed before and during WWII, would find such a statement deeply hurtful and outrageous

Any person familiar with the history of Korea know it is factually correct.

>Schools and universities forbade speaking Korean

Again this is false and there is 0 evidence of this

Literacy rates of Korean in Korean language was only 10% at the beginning of Japanese rule, at the end of Japanese rule it was 65%, it's only 75% now.

Source https://web.archive.org/web/20131012205335im_/http://img.hani.co.kr/section-kisa/2003/10/08/00500000012003100801065086.jpg

>they chopped down trees by the millions and planted non-native species

this is false

while japan did increase the forest industry by 2.57 times they also reforested lots of land, 50x more land was forested than before japanese rule

source: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0710308124/qid=1119366127/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-1383104-7833623?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

https://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4334006345/250-4809497-4372253

https://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4898272398/qid=1126632976/250-4809497-4372253

>That's why they still have very good relations to these days.

You realise the CIA were interfering in Phillipines elections so that it would become a Pro US country?

https://www.manilatimes.net/how-cia-has-been-meddling-in-philippine-presidential-elections/263363/

http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/filipinas/doc/cia.html

>Guam is basically a military base. Like the native population is smaller than the military personal stationed there.

because of the us invading and oppressing the natives

>The Bikini Atoll has 5 people living there.

I'm sure they appreciate the radiation

>Puerto Rico tries to become a State. You're describing one small fringe movement.

It wasn't fringe many Puerto Ricans wanted Independence, they even voted for it but were denied it.

>The US never colonized

Right I forgot Americans were the native settlers of America.

>,no slaves, no cultural genocide etc.

hahahahaahahahahahahhahahahaa

>What kind of twisted Logic is that? So it's the US fault that people died in a war that was caused by the Japanese?

You were the one using that dumb logic, if it's Tojo's faulted for ordering Pearl harbour it is America's fault for making Japan open it's borders leading to the Meiji restoration

>The Railway Incident has been proven to be staged to allow Japan to justify the war.

That was in 1931, the Sino-Japanese started in 1937 after Chinese attacked japanese settlements in Shanghai.

>【p.203】 The number of students in the schools enumerated in the foregoing table has increased between 1911 and 1924 from 110,789 to 542,679, the greatest increase being in the number attending the Common Schools, which rose from 20,121 to 361,710 (almost entierly Korean children), and the Elementary Schools, which rose from 15,509 to 56,049 (almost entirely Japanese children). The above figures do not include the pupils in two classes of institutions―Kindergartens, and Sohtang. The number of Children in the former increased from 141,604 to 256,851. The Sohtang are elementary private schools conducted by Koreans, in which little is taught except the Chinese classics and brush writing.

>【p.208】 The personnel and office expenses for educational administration and incorporated in the expenditure of the central and are met by the State Treasury. Apart from the items refferd to above, the educational expenditure is met by the Goverment-General, and by three classes of Public Corporations, viz., provinancial bodies, District Educational bodies, and School Asociations.


http://raskb.com/udenlibrary/disk4/308.pdf

Population of Korea in 1910 (Prior to Japanese annexation) 13 Million

Population of Korea in 1945 (End of Japanese occupation) 26 million

Average salary in Korea in 1910, 58 yen

Average salary in Korea in 1938 119 yen

Average yearly GDP growth of Korea over total annexation period, 4%

In 1944 Korea had a 61% enrollment rate, prior to this it was less than 1%

Average life span went from 26 to 42

Sources: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0710308124/qid=1119366127/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-1383104-7833623?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

https://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4334006345/250-4809497-4372253

https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4898272398/qid=1126632976?redirect=true