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

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:55:22 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
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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

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.

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.
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