Korean Novelist Wants Koreans Who Studied in Japan Prosecuted

Famed Korean author Jo Jung-rae thinks that any Korean who studied in Japan should be prosecuted:

Novelist Jo Jung-rae during a news conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his literary debut at the Press Center in central Seoul on Monday / Yonhap

“People who studied in Japan are doomed to become pro-Japanese. They become traitors. Some call them ‘homegrown Japanese pirates’…,” he said during a news conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his literary debut at the Press Center in central Seoul. 

“I know there is a campaign going on and it aims to purge Koreans who are sympathetic about Japan regarding its past evil acts and distortion of history. People like them must be punished in accordance to law. I’m willing to actively participate in the campaign.”

His remarks created a stir. 

Critic Chin Jung-kwon said Jo’s remarks reflect “insanity” and “outdated nationalism.” Chin wrote on social media that if all Koreans who spent some years studying in Japan are Japan sympathizers, then President Moon Jae-in’s daughter must be pro-Japanese as she studied at Tokyo’s Kokushikan University. 

Jo is a respected novelist having authored many best-selling books. His award-winning historical fiction work “The Taebaek Mountains” is considered the best novel of the 1980s.

Korea Times

You can read more at the link, but Jo wants to put people in jail who studied in Japan because a group of authors wrote a book based on facts about the Japanese colonial period that dispute much of what Jo has written in his historical fiction books. So instead of disputing the facts he rather have people jailed.

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J6Junkie
J6Junkie
4 years ago

So that’s why commie moon’s daughter fled to Thailand. Studied in Japan and must be a collaborator according to this nutjob author.

Korean Man
Korean Man
4 years ago

OK granted he’s a nutjob author. Is he any different from any of the stuff American rightwing nutjobs that make controversial comments? What has this to do with Moon anyway?

2ID Doc
2ID Doc
4 years ago

This is exactly what commie moon pie ordered to keep up the Japanese Evil bs he’s been selling for years now, so Koreans won’t look at the mess he is creating inside the borders.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
4 years ago

“Is he any different from any of the stuff American rightwing nutjobs that make controversial comments?”

Pinochet will be his pilot instead of his co-pilot?

Korean Man
Korean Man
4 years ago

2ID Doc, I know exactly what you mean. Like how Trump ordered and encouraged racist attacks on the evil Mexicans, Blacks, Asians, and Muslims for degrading America, with his words and actions.

CharlieM
CharlieM
4 years ago

How about the Koreans that went to Japan to find a job? The Korean novel Pachinko followed the story of one such family. Some of them returned to Korea. Should they be arrested, too?

J6Junkie
J6Junkie
4 years ago

How about Koreans working there right now? They’re gonna have their own reeducation facility in the Confederacy.

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