Comments on: The Sea of Japan: Maybe it really is a Sea of Peace

By: HJC

HJC — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:33:19 +0000

Kentaki, the survey that u talk about where 90% of Japanese said they disliked koreans is incorrect. 90% of Japanese said they disliked NORTH Korea. Over 55% of Japananese people said they liked South Korea however…

By: James A

James A — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:44:21 +0000

Koreans are everywhere in Japan. I’ve seen plenty of them in the little down that I reside in. Either many of them are wives of Japanese men or company workers (There’s a big ALPS factory in town).

I remember seeing this girl from a university in Seoul at a small concert. She was doing a little homestay nearby. She was enjoying her stay quite a bit, and she was very bright. She could speak both English and Japanese very well. Meeting her helped debunk the usual sensationalist prattle that tends to cloud up relations between the two countries.

By: ampontan

ampontan — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:19:30 +0000

Kentaki:
It’s more than just products: There are a lot of Korean students at Japanese universities, and they get along fine. Many of them work at part-time jobs in Japan to supplement their income, and they have no problem getting jobs at all, or getting along with the people at work.

By: Kentaki

Kentaki — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:31:19 +0000

I no longer live in Japan, so I cannot speak for them. However, I disagree that the Koreans and the Japanese get along. Maybe superficially, I guess. I used to believe that the mutual sentiment was of something past. That changed after I started to frequent a bulletin board called “Enjoy Korea.” The thing I do not understand like other Japanese there, many Koreans (not all) freely embrace Japanese products including illegaly downloaded porn (we call this “kahanshin shinnichi”). But they are not anywhere “liking” us. They just simply like Japanese products or something (e.g. visiting hotsprings, going to ski, etc.). Also, NHK did a survey a while ago, and according to the result, about 90% of Japanese do not like the Koreans. I probably don’t think that was a scietific survey, though.

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By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:30:01 +0000

Hate is too strong a word. I prefer to use the word dislike. There was a time that Koreans hated the Japanese but those days are long gone. However the dislike of the Japanese will continue as long as issues such Dokdo and Yasukuni continue to strain relations every time a politician on both sides of the Sea of Japan, East Sea, Sea of Peace or whatever the name of that body of water is this week, need to rile people up for political reasons.

By: ampontan

ampontan — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:00:11 +0000

GI Korea:

What it seems like you might be saying is that Koreans hate Japanese in the abstract, but don’t have any problems with them when they actually come face to face with them.

In other words, what they don’t like is a concept they have created, but they don’t mind the material thing itself.

Heck, that sounds more insular than the Japanese used to be, and Korea’s only a “half-island”. (That’s the word for peninsula in Japanese, and it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s what it was in Korean, too.)

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:37:16 +0000

Koreans and Japanese do get along just fine. In Korea there are Japanese tourists all over the place and no one bothers them likewise in Japan with Korean tourists. There is no stigma for Koreans to go visit Japan or even work there. However, just because they get along doesn’t mean they like each other. Just about every Korean I meet dislikes the Japanese. My wife’s friend is married to a Japanese man and even she told me she dislikes the Japanese. When I asked her about her husband she said well he is different from the typical Japanese. There has been for years a silent majority in Korea that gets along with the Japanese but I wouldn’t confuse that for liking the Japanese.

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