Korean Bookstore Uses Slur to Label Japanese Book Section
I guess we will see if this starts a new trend in Korean bookstores, in my opinion this is pretty childish:
A South Korean bookstore in the central city of Daejeon stirred up an anti-Japan controversy by attaching the nameplate ‘Waegu Novels’ to the bookshelf for Japanese novels.
Waegu is a term used to refer to a group of Japanese pirates who plagued the seas of East Asia, especially between the 13th and 17th centuries. Some Koreans use the term as a way to look down on Japanese people.
In an interview with local media on Wednesday, the owner of the bookstore said that Japan’s economic retaliation against South Korea as well as the fact that a number of bookstores in Japan run ‘Anti-Korea’ corners in their Korea section made him angry.
Korea Biz Wire
You can read more at the link.
Korea, keep looking to the past.
I’m wondering if that dude in Daejeon can actually prove his assertion about the bookstores in Japan.
Having one book store, with a book section called ‘Waegu Novels’ (somewhat insulting name for Japanese) then having respectable novels written by Japanese authors….. is far far different from Japan’s hundreds of bookstores all over the country, selling entire book sections full of ‘book’ written by anti-Korean Japanese authors with titles like “Why Koreans are primitive”, “Why I am glad I wasn’t born a Korean”, “Korea a country that will soon collapse”, “Koreans are criminal race”, “Why Japan needs to cleanse itself from Korean race”, etc etc.
Furthermore, that one book store in Korea, caused enough controversy that there’s a Korean media article about it. In Japan, they’ve been selling those books for decades with no controversy.
Got any proof? Look, “TM”; I’m not saying you, along with the bookseller in Daejeon, are incorrect. I’m just asking for proof.
You don’t know how to use google?
Type it up and I got bunches and bunches.
Here’s some
https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/ggxrot/the_korea_section_of_a_japanese_bookstore/
https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/new-book-attacks-profusion-of-'hate-books'-on-store-shelves
https://www.koreabang.com/2015/blogs/what-koreans-really-think-about-japan-and-its-netizens.html
You don’t know how to use google?
Type it up and I got bunches and bunches.
Here’s some
//reddit.com/r/korea/comments/ggxrot/the_korea_section_of_a_japanese_bookstore/
//japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/new-book-attacks-profusion-of-‘hate-books’-on-store-shelves
//koreabang.com/2015/blogs/what-koreans-really-think-about-japan-and-its-netizens.html
Thanks. The usual practice in intelligent circles is to provide proof of one’s own assertions, not just toss it out and expect others to do the work for you.
Sorry. I meant “educated circles”, not “intelligent circles”.
“The usual practice in intelligent circles is to provide proof of one’s own assertions, not just toss it out and expect others to do the work for you.”
Actually, unless you are writing for Wikipedia or your PhD, that is not true.
The current standard is not to provide a link for every simple factual statement made.
Since we all have the sum of mankind’s knowledge at our fingertips, incorrect statements can easily be challenged within seconds.
Only if no information can be found with a reasonable search, or the statement involves complexity not answerable with a 3 word google search, can you demand proof.
In this case, you could have verified the truthfulness of Tokyo Boy’s statement in less time than you whined for him to provide proof.
I bet you were a real winner in the Canadian Navy.
Bonus Question:
Are you mentally prepared for Season 2 of Not My President?