By It looks like another Roh Moo-hyun era policy is going to remain in effect in Korea (HT: Japan Probe):
South Korea has confiscated more property originally owned by collaborators with Japanese colonialism in the last century, a state agency said Friday.
The seven people included Lee Jeong-Ro, Min Young-Gi and Lee Yong-Tae who received Japanese court titles and money from Tokyo as reward for their work, said the Investigative Commission On Pro-Japanese Collaborators’ Property.
Four others were senior administrators during the 1910-1945 colonial era.
The land seized Thursday is worth 4.1 billion won (5.6 million dollars).
The commission has now seized property originally owned by 29 collaborators since it began work in July 2006. The land is worth an estimated 77.1 billion won (82.3 million dollars).
The commission said it was seeking to confiscate the property of another 106 people.
Under a special law enacted in 2005, the commission has listed 452 people who collaborated with the brutal colonisation.
"We’ll do our best to complete the confiscation of pro-Japanese collaborators’ property before the commission’s four-year term expires in July 2010," Jang Mi-Jeong, spokesman for the commission, told AFP.
The government plans to use the proceeds to compensate pro-independence activists and their offspring, the commission has said. [AFP]
Despite all the rhetoric from the Lee Myung-bak administration it seems like policy wise so far it is just more of the same.
5:22 pm on March 1st, 2008 1
As I mention on my entry on it, these must have been especially serious offenders (meaning, convenient political enemies). Remember over the past two years the “truth and reconciliation committees” have cleared tons of people of any responsibility during the war and occupation, including a huge number of convicted war criminals. One of these commissions did, however, suggest that the US pay compensation for bombing done during the war. Once again, I’d like to apologize on behalf of my ancestors for liberating your country . . . twice.
8:40 am on March 1st, 2008 2
HT to Japan Probe? This was in the Korean media a couple of days ago, including the English editions of the major newspapers.
9:27 am on March 1st, 2008 3
Don't blame Lee on this. The National Assembly enacted the special law — a progressive Uri Party and DP move while the GNP was still coming back into power.
What pisses me off about this crap is that the proceeds go to "freedom fighter" families — including those who were North Korean "freedom fighters" previously known as communists…and their surviving families living in North Korea. Roh's legacy keeps on giving…
9:37 am on March 1st, 2008 4
And don't worry about the freedom fighters in the North. The authorities there will make sure they get their money.
12:29 pm on March 1st, 2008 5
Maybe they got the land seizure idea from Mugabe.
4:52 pm on March 1st, 2008 6
these are the so called progessives???
hahaha progress what backwards!
until korea gets over this past victim infeiority bullshit it will never get better!
6:45 pm on March 1st, 2008 7
I wonder what they will do to the USFK collaborators if the US ever pulls out!
8:09 pm on March 1st, 2008 8
The Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga and Cayuga collaborated with Britain in the revolutionary war.
Funking collaborators.
We need to take their land and assets and give it to relatives of patriots and freedom fighters… of which I am documentably one.
"ChickenHead Bingo and Casino"… has a ring, doesn't it?
…so does "Ye Ol' ChickenHead Tax-free Gasoline and Cigarettes Shoppe".
No, instead, we have given autonomous regions of our country, tax-free status, government subsidies and named warships after these traitors.
And, believe it or not, Canada has been even MORE generous to them because they fought against us in, not only the War of Independence, but also in the War of 1812…
…collaborators of collaborators!
You Are With Us or Against Us, Canadians! And we see your true colors. Turn over the collaborators and their assets or face their fate!
Fire up the silos. Let's nuke those backbacon-eating, took-wearing, jelly dougnut-eating, "eh"-saying, Whitehouse-burning, telephone and lightbulb-inventing, Great White North-living rat baztards.
Oh… wait… we are America. We forgive everybody.
Nevermind.
Korea, let it go. There is a whole future to look forward to…
…unless you want to wind up like other notorious past-dwellers… like the Balkans, Iran, numerous African tribes, most of the Middle East, etc.
10:11 pm on March 1st, 2008 9
One of the things I like about this is how it is the progressives who dismiss in knee-jerk fashion others as having a cold war mentality — that they are locked into the past and unable to "progress" forward into the now…
11:02 pm on March 1st, 2008 10
Let’s nuke those backbacon-eating, took-wearing, jelly dougnut-eating, “eh”-saying, Whitehouse-burning, telephone and lightbulb-inventing, Great White North-living rat baztards.
The Canadian claim to Bell is specious. Scottish-born Bell did spend quite a bit of time in Canada and died there. However, he took US citizenship while working in the country and stated, "I am not one of those hyphenated Americans who claim allegiance to two countries."
Edison was a native-born American who spent his entire life in the US. He created all of his inventions in the US. His father was Canadian, but that does not make him a Canadian inventor.
5:17 am on March 2nd, 2008 11
Sonagi,
You are kidding, right?
Do you mean to tell me that Canada has distorted its history books to discredit American accomplishments, strengthen its reputation on the global stage and stroke its internal fires of nationalism?
And they teach this stuff to children, for God's sake.
Why are we in Iraq and Afghanistan? It is clear the enemy is closer to home.
8:37 am on March 31st, 2008 12
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