Bank of Korea May Remove Imperial Japanese Calligraphy
It seems to me instead of erasing the history, the Bank of Korea should just put a plaque there explaining the history to people:
Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor Lee Ju-yeol said Friday the bank is in talks with the Cultural Heritage Administration to possibly remove the engraving of the word “priority” written in Chinese on the cornerstone of the bank’s former headquarters in downtown Seoul.
Korea Times
“The BOK will be very quick in addressing the issue about Hiromubi Ito’s calligraphy and the strokes slanted down from the left to the bottom right which were found in the two characters of ‘jeong’ and ‘cho’ engraved on the foundation stone. The bank is exploring three options. After thorough discussions with the CHA, the bank will resolve the issue as quickly as possible,” the central bank chief told lawmakers on the sidelines of his participation in this year’s annual Assembly audit of the BOK.
Lee didn’t elaborate further, but he issued a public apology over the matter. The apology came a day after the CHA confirmed the writing engraved on the bank’s former headquarters was Hirobumi Ito’s handwriting.
Ito was the first resident general of Korea prior to the 1910-45 Japanese occupation of the peninsula. Ito was assassinated by Korean independence activist Ahn Jung-geun in Manchuria in 1909.
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Might as well change it to Bank of Fatty.
Speaking of “history”, on March 28, 2014, the Bank of Korea joined the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB). Nothing sinister about that. Totally unrelated to that Halal Street on Hooker Hill and no one is claiming sharia law will start being enforced in Seoul… No, really… No one is claiming that…
www dot reuters dot com/article/islamic-finance-korea/bank-of-korea-joins-islamic-finance-body-ifsb-idUSL5N0MP0RF20140328
Less than 3 weeks later, 311 died when the MV Sewol capsized. Was it just a coincidence? Do we know for sure it was not a terrorist attack? The crew survived. The captain and his officers were the first rescued. The children were in their rooms, as they were ordered. Do we know none of the crew were jihadhists? What about those who painted the lifeboat sensors? How about those who improperly loaded the cargo?
en dot wikipedia dot org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol
IFSB is how terrorist move money around the world. Anyway, Korean bank should put up a sign saying Korea made poor decisions and clung to the past while the world modernized around it. And now we are doing same thing, looking to and cling to the past instead of moving forward and recognizing loom threats on the emerging horizon.