Comments by "August Hayek" (@hayek218) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. Yi Sun-sin: Even though Korean wants to include Yi Sun-sin (李舜臣) as one of the three Greatest Admirals of the world, Horatio Nelson of the Britain who prevailed in the Battle of Trafalgar, John Paul Jones of the America who defeated the British for its independence, and Heihachiro Togo of Japan who defeated the Russia’s Baltic Fleet, he was not even a supreme commander, nor did he prevail in the battle Koreans claim to have won. To start with, throughout their history, Korea was the weakest in the region. Since the time of Yuan Dynasty, Korea had been a tribunary state of China for almost one thousand years. They always ask other countries to fight for Korea’s domestic issues like in the Korean War, and this is why they have no true national hero. Yi Sun-sin was merely a commander of a fleet out of many Joseon fleets, certainly not the admiral or the commander of the Ming-Joseon Navy. Not only he failed to defeat the Japanese navy, he could not them on the sea and allowed them to land on the Korean Peninsula. Japan at the time as the hay days of samurai and had the largest number of guns in the world with many experienced samurai in communications and modern battle tactics of the day. Korea on the other hand was merely a tribunary state of Ming with NO guns. There is no way Korean could beat Japan by itself.  In fact, in the first dispatch, Japan conquered Seoul within one month, and Pyeongyang within two month capturing the prince of Joseon as a hostage while there was NO Japanese commander who was killed except for one who was assassinated during hawking. The only military exploit that Yi Sun-sin had against Japan was when he attacked “a supply fleet” and temporally cut off its supply route. But this is by no means being destroyed or defeated. He strategies were more like those of pirates or guerrillas such as setting fire on ships at night or attacking from the back of Japanese fleets after agreeing on cease-fire. Coward and so typical of the weak. Later, since the military leader of Japan, Hideyoshi who planned to conquer China through Korea, died of old age in Osaka, Japan agreed on cease-fire and retreated. But it is a blatant lie for Koreans to say that Yi Sun-sin was a great admiral of the world, defeated the Japanese navy, and is the one from whom the world’s other admirals learn from.  However, you could at least say he had some brain, avoiding front-to-front battle with the mighty Japan.
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  2. Did not make much difference. Yi Sun-sin: Even though Korean wants to include Yi Sun-sin (李舜臣) as one of the three Greatest Admirals of the world, Horatio Nelson of the Britain who prevailed in the Battle of Trafalgar, John Paul Jones of the America who defeated the British for its independence, and Heihachiro Togo of Japan who defeated the Russia’s Baltic Fleet, he was not even a supreme commander, nor did he prevail in the battle that Koreans claim to have won. To start with, throughout their history, Korea was the weakest in the region. Since the time of Yuan Dynasty, Korea had been a tribunary state of China for almost one thousand years. They always asked other countries to fight for Korea’s domestic issues like in the Korean War, and this is why they have no true national hero. Yi Sun-sin was merely a commander of a single fleet out of many Joseon fleets, certainly not the admiral or the commander of the Ming-Joseon combined fleet. Not only he failed to defeat the Japanese navy, he could not prevent them on the sea, allowing them to land on the Korean Peninsula. In fact, in the first dispatch, Japan conquered Seoul within one month, and Pyeongyang within two months capturing the princes of Joseon as a hostage while there was NO Japanese commander killed except for one who was assassinated during hawking. Japan at the time was the hay days of samurai and had the largest number of guns in the world with many experienced samurai in communications and modern battle tactics of the day. Korea on the other hand was merely a tribunary state of Ming with NO guns. There is no way Korean could beat Japan by itself.  The only military exploit that Yi Sun-sin had against Japan was when he attacked “a supply fleet” and temporally cut off its supply route. But this is by no means “destroyed" or “defeated." His strategies were more like those of pirates or guerrillas, setting fire on ships at night or attacking from the back of Japanese fleets after agreeing on cease-fire. Coward and so typical of the weak. And in the end, Yi was killed in a revenge batte of attacking Japanese after the cease-fire. Later, since the military leader of Japan, Hideyoshi, who planned to conquer China through Korea, died of old age in Osaka, Japan agreed on cease-fire and retreated. It is a blatant lie for Koreans to say that Yi Sun-sin was a great admiral of the world, defeated the Japanese navy, or is the one from whom the world’s other admirals learn from. The truth was that he was not an admiral; his fleet was not a blue water fleet; he allowed Japanese to land on Peninsula; and he was killed by the Japanese. However, you could say that he had some brain, avoiding front-to-front battle with the Japanese on the sea.
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  28.  @hanyello2056  ????? Then read this: 脫解尼師今(57年—80年)姓昔名脫解。新羅(徐罗伐或者徐伐)第4代君主,新羅昔氏国王始祖。據《三國史記·新羅本紀》記載,脫解尼師今生於本多婆那國,是一個位於倭國東北一千里的地方。其國王娶女國王女為妻,有娠七年,生下一個大卵。國王以人生卵是為不祥,認為應該丟棄,但其妻不忍,用布帛包裹此卵和一些寶物,放在櫝中,任其飄浮於海中。至辰韓阿珍浦口為一老婦所取而養之,’有一鵲飛鳴而隨之。宜省鵲字,以昔爲氏‘(其姓昔来源于鵲字的一部分),又因他從櫝中解放出來,取名脫解。其人身長九尺、風神秀朗、智識過人。公元8年,南解王聽聞他之賢明,以自己的女兒阿孝夫人嫁給他,委以政事。根据三国遺事记载,金姓始祖金閼智在林中被脱解尼师今捡到,而当时恰有鸡鸣叫之声音。被认为是吉兆,于是当时的国号就是鸡林国。及後儒理王將死時以脫解年長且賢明,傳位於他。王位開始由朴、昔兩氏交替。脫解尼師今在位二十三年後將王位傳給儒理尼師今之子婆娑尼師今。 A former professor at Seoul University, Lee Young-hoon, who is a co-author of “Anti-Japan Tributalism,” describes Korea’s lying culture in its preface as below: “A country of lies, a nation of lies. Korea's liar culture is widely known internationally. In 2014 alone, 1,400 people were prosecuted for perjury, 172 times more than Japan. Considering the population, perjury per capita is 430 times that of Japan. The greatest responsibility for the fact that the people of this country do not regard lies as lies and that the politics of this country have come to use lies as a means of political conflict can be attributed to the country's liar scholarship. The history and sociology of this country are a hotbed of lies. Universities in this country are factories of lies.”
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  30.  @hanyello2056  What an idiot. Just read your stupid books in original Chinese and find ruins yourself. All your history in Hangul is stupid fantasies fabricated AFTER WWII, and English versions are their stupid translations. To begin with, your ancestors did not leave much of written history, and the first official history, Samguk Sagi, was only written in the 12th century. But even then, your stupid scholars do not read them much because there are so many things written that hearts them, such as earlier kings of Silla were Japanese from Japan. So, they cherry-pick parts from ancient materials from China and Japan and filled the blanks with your wishes, hopes, and desires to create a fantasy that you call your “history.” They are your stupid imaginations, or at best, fantasies. Gojoseon was a creation that your stupid scholars thought up to hide the fact that they were created by the Chinese, or at best, Jurchens. They are Turks, a different ethnic group from you. It is like Poland claiming that the history of Germany is theirs AFTER the retreat of Germany from WWII. The truth is that you were a tributary state of Chinese dynasties for almost one thousand years since the time of the Yuan dynasty, and it was Japan that gave you independence, which your stupid ancestors could not hold on to. That is why almost everything you had before the annexations are from China. And everything you have now is what Japan gave or taught you free of charge, or you stole from Japan. Look around and try to find anything that did not come from Japan apart from Kimchi. You can’t. That is the answer. Even your plastic faces are using the measurements of Japanese models, operated with Japanese operation techniques.
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  43. ???????????? This is such a propaganda. "The Korean history" is full of lies as they had to raise nationalism and patriotism to fight in the Korean War for their new country that US had given. Koreans did not leave much of written materials, and even if they did no Korean today can read their true official history as they are all written in Chinese characters. All they can do is to regurgitate the fabrications that their government cocks up. Yi lost the War, and he was killed by the Japanese. To begin with, Korea was a dependency of China for almost one thousand years since the time of Yuan Dynasty. The reason he is claimed as hero with lies is that in Korea there is no other heroes. In their entire history, Koreans never fought for their country by themselves. They always invite other country to solve their internal problem or fight against other enemy. And they are always first to run away leaving the troops they invited, and make complaints. The most recently, this happened during the Korean War. Their run-away habit is well documented in the book written by US Commander of the war, "The Korean War." BTW the armor Yi is wearing in his statue is a Chinese armor and the sword is Japanese. With Korean history, you should ALWAYS check against the primary source materials. Here you go: According to the main editorial by the Chief Editor of Choson Ilbo, the biggest newspaper in South Korea, on Mar 6, 2012 and Feb. 13, 2003, "Koreans lie as if they breathe” and “Koreans are the world’s biggest liar of all." Korea has the highest fraud rate and is the only country whose fraud rate exceeds that of robbery in OECD. Also, all of perjury, calumny and fraud rates in S Korea are some 160-670 times higher than those of Japan.
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