TroonsDid911
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How historically accurate is this meme of WW2 Korea?
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Those things didn't happen in WW2 but in the preceding period. In 1895 Korea was removed from Qing China's protection, up till which point Korea had been a backwater enslaved to the Manchu, and put under Japanese control. 15 years later (1910) it was made a part of the Japanese Empire proper.
Over the next 35 years the Japanese spent untold amounts of sweat and treasure applying the advances of the Meiji Restoration to Korea. However, they also tried to convince Koreans that they were superior Yamato masterrace like the Japanese, in order to justify why Korea was a part of Japan's empire. However, it backfired because Koreans got the message they were superior beings, but forgot the part about "because you are Japanese like me" after Japan was kicked out in 1945.
Basically the reason Korea is so nationalist today is because they were taught so by Japan, and nobody told Korea to stop after WW2 ended.
Over the next 35 years the Japanese spent untold amounts of sweat and treasure applying the advances of the Meiji Restoration to Korea. However, they also tried to convince Koreans that they were superior Yamato masterrace like the Japanese, in order to justify why Korea was a part of Japan's empire. However, it backfired because Koreans got the message they were superior beings, but forgot the part about "because you are Japanese like me" after Japan was kicked out in 1945.
Basically the reason Korea is so nationalist today is because they were taught so by Japan, and nobody told Korea to stop after WW2 ended.
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It's mostly true.
Late Joseon Korea was incredibly stratified (almost like "hell korea" nowadays, and the norks too.... hmm I wonder if this is just a korean thing) with the upper classes living in decadence, upper middle classes in comfort and the bottom two thirds of society massively exploited.
The japs massively industrialized the country. Most of nork industry is based upon japanese developments. A bit less so in SKorea, but still quite an influence.
South Korea has always been a vassal state - but I do have to admit that they're real good at it - first to the chinks, then the chink-mongols, then the chinks again, then the japs and finally now the US. They've got a very strong sense of ethnic identity, and will gladly be culturally and economically subservient as long as they can stay endogamically independent. There is a reason why Korea is such a racially pure society today.
Late Joseon Korea was incredibly stratified (almost like "hell korea" nowadays, and the norks too.... hmm I wonder if this is just a korean thing) with the upper classes living in decadence, upper middle classes in comfort and the bottom two thirds of society massively exploited.
The japs massively industrialized the country. Most of nork industry is based upon japanese developments. A bit less so in SKorea, but still quite an influence.
South Korea has always been a vassal state - but I do have to admit that they're real good at it - first to the chinks, then the chink-mongols, then the chinks again, then the japs and finally now the US. They've got a very strong sense of ethnic identity, and will gladly be culturally and economically subservient as long as they can stay endogamically independent. There is a reason why Korea is such a racially pure society today.
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