Re: (Translation) Blood of the Old Kings by Sung-Il Kim

In article <6ou4hj5d1sv6bubbgn29aur8vk01tsediv@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:55:22 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:
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Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

On 16 Oct 2024 19:26:54 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote:

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"I wonder where on Earth a Korean author would get the idea of a
relentlessly expansionist, exploitative empire determined to =

replace

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Unfortunately, it actually requires knowledge of Geography to
interpret, which may be asking a bit much.  (Nothing can be read of
the image's labels and what the coloring shows is very =

non-conclusive.)

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The left map appears to be showing various political entities in the
general area of Korea. It might be useful with some Korean historical
movies set a century or two ago.
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The right map shows Japan and Korea. Close, aren't they?
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But neither really /implicates/ Japan, as far as I can tell.

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This, on the other hand..
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanshin-ron
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in conjunction with
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokushin-ron

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Those Korean Historical Movies I mentioned above generally involve
Japan invading Korea at various times in the past. As, indeed, does
/Uprising/, which I streamed yesterday on Netflix.
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My point wasn't that Japan didn't abuse Korea; my point was that the
two maps don't implicate Japan. Something else was needed.

One map depicts the Four Commanderies of Han, established by China
in Korea. The other depicts Korea as part of the Japanese Empire.

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