And the Survey Says…
That Korea and Japan dislike each other, imagine that, I’m shocked:
According to a survey by Gallup Korea and the Japan Research Center, 20 percent of Koreans have friendly feelings towards Japan and 36 percent of Japanese felt the same towards Korea.
In a 2002 survey by the Chosun Ilbo and Mainichi Shimbun, 35 percent of Koreans and 69 percent of Japanese had friendly views of the other country.
When asked the reason for their antipathy, most Koreans cited the territorial dispute over the Dok-do Islets, while most Japanese said they’re turned off by anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea.
Here is something though that may surprise some:
When asked which country Korea should be close with, Koreans chose the U.S. (37 percent), North Korea (28 percent), China (20 percent), and Japan (5 percent). Japanese said Japan should be closest to the U.S. (42 percent), China (17 percent), South Korea (6 percent) and North Korea (3 percent).
It would have been a more interesting survey if they asked why they think they should be close to each of these countries.Â
Maybe we should have another "Korea-Japan Friendship Year" to see if this time they end up going to war with each other.
It is an inevitable result of Koreans' anti-Japan sentiment.
If you hate someone, you must be hated by him/her.
If Koreans hate Japanese because of Japan’s colonization of Korea, they should have fought against Japanese during the colonial period, not now.
Though Koreans didn’t resist against Japanese in those days at all without some terrors, they started to criticize and hate Japan after being liberated by US.
And they are still making anti-Japan flashy demonstrations in spite of time course of more than 60 years after its independence.
I think Koreans' anti-Japan sentiment or demonstration now is the excuses of them not to fight for independence by themselves 60 years ago.
And Koreans hate Americans because Americans deprived Koreans of their chance to get independence by themselves and behave like knight on white horse, which is maddening for Koreans.
In short, anti-Japan and anti-US movement of Korea is a kind of playacting of their own independence war because of their complex in its history.
After friendliness between Japan and Korea or US and Korea being withered, North Korea has a gloat over SK’s foolishness.
Jion 123,
Hahaha!!!!!
What Yu? Nothing intelligent to say?
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