I have been trying to show that he needs to prove his facts and so far he has not. I, honestly, think that its sad, that he thinks so little of his country not to fact check.

My earlier soju reference was that only a drunk person would think that all esl teachers think one way. I asked my office mates the colony question and that was their answer and this idiot think that its racist.

His logic makes no sense. This person is assuming that, just because I am an ESL teacher, I have no brains.

Maybe he has watched the anti-teachers specials on Korean TV one too many times.

As far as the Japanese colonization of Korea I have long recommended on this blog for everyone to read Under the Black Umbrella by Hildi Kang which provides the best analysis of the Japanese colonial period I have seen.

Once again the "weak Korea" argument is growing old. Korea is not the equivalent of Iceland. Would you call Australia a "weak country" when Korea has far more people, a higher GDP, and a much larger military then Australia? Australia is a more relevant player in the world because it voluntarily accepts much global responsibility unlike Korea which despite greater capabilities then Australia does not.

Korea is not "weak" and has the ability to take on greater responsibilities in the world but choose not to, just like how the Korean government chooses not to be fully responsible for their own national defense.

Nothing infered or personal, but once again you did not answer any questions.

So drinking soju is racist, are you kidding me? I just asked my students and they are looking at me very strangely not really understing why someone drinking it would be racist.

so can you answer the question why all esl teachers think this way.

i thought i answered ur question fully. like i told u before, majority of people did not want to be a colony of japan. lets be reasonable here, i would say it would be impossbile for anybody to know just how many koreans wanted to be part of japan. people like lee wan yong comes and top class yangbans comes to my mind. it's rather irrelevant since vast majority of people did not want to be part of japan.

also about an esl teacher, i misspoke. i meant to say many esl teacher who are active in korea blogsphere. just read some posts and comments from some of the popular korean blog and u will know what i am talking about. look at gi korea and his post on "abnormal japan." it seems that whenever korean demands an apology (rightfully so) for sex slavery, gi korea had to go grab his samurai armor and wildy swing his katana to defend japan's honor against the lying koreans. expat like him got so much rage towards the koreans but no anger towards people who actually commited the crime.

for the tibet issue, i think whole world, lead by US, should do something. i doubt it will happen. like i told gi korea before, it doesnt matter if korea stay silent or not because it wont matter due to power disparity between china and sk. if people of iceland tell hitler to stop killing jews, do u think hitler will stop? do u think he will think deeply whether he should listen to iceland people? i think not.

please dont compare current sk to 1909 US. current day sk is shrimp with body armor while US was and still is the titan. China is a titan, so it only make sense for titan like US to stop another titan like china. i hope i answered ur question fully.

What I asked was how many Koreans were complacent and approved of the takeover of Japan. I, in no way stated, that all of Korea welcomed becoming a colony. Once again a question was asked and once again a question was not answered. Are we beginning to see a pattern here?

The question was very simple, how many Koreans (number of people) were OK with the takeover?

I can not say if it is a popular belief, but I have asked my office mates and we are wondering, what kind of bad Saki or Soju are you drinking to come up with this thought? Once again, I would like to see your evidence of this so called ESL teacher belief.

My ESL mates have never had a discussion about the colonial period in general, but I will be sure to bring up the subject at our next social gathering.

Now since the original topic was Tibet, lets go back to that. Will Korea protest to China about the killings in Tibet,or will they be silent? If they are silent then is not Korea guilty of the same thing that you have been complaining about the USA doing to Korea?

r u suggesting that majority of korean wanted to be part of imperial japan? let me answer ur question, majority of koreans did not want to be part of japan. many people suffered during the colonization. if u think majority of korean supported the annexation then i am lose of word here. i know it's popular belief amongst expat in korea, especially amongst an esl teacher, that korea wanted to be part of japan and that they were treated with love from the japanese.

to clarify, majority of koreans did not support the colonization. there were couple of traitors who made the colonization happen but majority did not want to be part of the japanese empire.