tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post5077445757610806080..comments2024-02-23T23:53:54.842+09:00Comments on Gusts Of Popular Feeling: Colonial-era collaboration and the controversy surrounding Helen Kim's statuematthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-39249006217213107152017-11-21T06:13:35.047+09:002017-11-21T06:13:35.047+09:00Good point; that statement does make it sound like...Good point; that statement <i>does</i> make it sound like a panacea. Being a key, unfinished leftover from WWII (Japanese still hasn't normalized relations with the north) I think it would solve at least <i>some</i> problems... but, yes, reunification is likely to be messy, and, assuming the ROK absorbs the north, and considering how defectors are treated in ROK society today, should the development of the north be followed in the state-jaebeol-led fashion of the ROK, it's not hard to imagine the current left-nationalist narrative being retooled by activists and politicians wanting to appeal to northerners' sense of victimization, of being left out, with "the pro-Japanese clique who suppressed democracy and developed the ROK for their own benefit on the backs of the <i>minjung</i>" extending their unjust rule into the north. matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-33811793478514716072017-11-20T16:06:26.731+09:002017-11-20T16:06:26.731+09:00Well done!
I wonder about the penultimate line. ...Well done!<br /><br />I wonder about the penultimate line. It makes unification sound like a panacea - which is pretty much how it functions in Korean discourse. One might imagine though, that faced with the challenges of unification, Koreans' energies might be diverted from the historical blame game; or that the inevtibale controversies of how to effect unification will simply fan the flames anew.<br />Sperwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14923936105650166276noreply@blogger.com