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@danikangarooni
What the Annexation Did to Korea
In fact, during the 35 years of the annexation, Japan invested up to 20% of its national budget every single year. Japan modernized Korea and even paid for it. The average life span of Korean people doubled as a result.
In the history of the world, there is no other country other than Japan that did this to another country. There is no other country other than Korea that received this benefit from another country. The nationalists of Korea are so ashamed of this that by taking advantage of the fact that Korea's history was all written in Chinese characters which present-day Koreans cannot read, and by exploiting Korea's traditional racist view from their Little China Ideology that looks down on the Japanese to be inferior simply because Japan is further from China, they keep on fabricating the history to teach exactly the opposite.
The following is what President Hoover of the US said after visiting the Korean Peninsula before and after the annexation:
When I visited Korea in 1909, to advise some Japanese industrialists on engineering matters, Korean people at that time were in the most disheartening condition that I had witnessed in any part of Asia. There was little law and order. The masses were underfed, under-clothed, under-housed, and under-equipped. There was no sanitation, and filth and squalor enveloped the whole countryside. The roads were hardly passable, and there were scant communication or educational facilities. Scarcely a tree broke the dismal landscape. Thieves and bandits seemed to be unrestrained.
During the thirty-five years of Japanese control, the life of the Korean people was revolutionized. Beginning with this most unpromising human material, the Japanese established order, built harbors, railways, roads and communications, good public buildings, and greatly improved housing. They established sanitation and taught better methods of agriculture. They built immense fertilizer factories in North Korea which lifted the people’s food suppliers to reasonable levels. They reforested the bleak hills. They established a general system of education and development skills. Even dusty, drab and filthy clothing had been replaced with clean bright colors.
This assistance continued even after the war. Today, just about everything in South Korea is from Japan which gave them everything free of charge. Government structures, infrastructure, legal structure, medical system, and industries (semiconductors, electronics, automobiles, heavy industries, steels, chemicals, constructions, shipbuilding, etc.). This is why Korea's industrial structure is similar to Japan, today. Not only this, Japan taught and gave agriculture (rice, vegetables, fruits), martial arts, subcultures, fashions, and arts, ..... even Korea's famous plastic surgery is operated with techniques learned from a Japanese clinic, Takasu Clinic, using the measurements of Japanese models. Their fashion designers, makeup artists, and hair make-up designers come to Japan to learn techniques that it is now difficult to tell the difference between the Japanese and Koreans.
They are also hiding these post-war assistance from their citizens.
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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@danikangarooni
Why and How Japan Annexed Korea
The annexation had almost no benefit for Japan except for its national security since Korea, having been a tributary state of Chinese dynasties for almost one thousand years, was so poor and vulnerable that Russia was trying to buy ports from them. The Korean Peninsula is like a knife pointing at Japan's neck like Cuba to the US. But the land is poor; there are almost no natural resources; there are no agricultural products; the population was not productive; there is no craftsmanship.
Japan tried to assist Korea first by giving independence from China after the 1st Sino-Japanese War through Shimonoseki Treaty. However, the ruling class of Korea refused to modernize and could not sustain itself.
So, finally, after so many struggles between pro and counter-modernization groups, Korea gave it up and was annexed at the request of their largest political party, Iljinhoe (一進会). There was no war; it was a signed deal signed by Korea's ambassador plenipotentiary, and not by declaration; it was in accordance with International Law; it was an internationally accepted deal.
(request by Iljinhoe with signatures)
South Korea changed its mind after the War and tried to illegalize the annexation deal. However, their claims have been declined at an international academic conference held at Harvard University in December 2008.
Professor J. Crawford of Cambridge University who specializes in International Law stated at the conference that in view of the international order of the time, it was not rare for a neighboring country to annex a nation that could not sustain itself, and that the Japanese annexation of Korea was not illegal.
It was also revealed at the conference that the Korean Emperor, Gojong, was actually in favor of becoming a protectorate of Japan in 1905 and dismissed opposing opinions expressed by some ministers, according to his diary and other Korean official documents such as ilsaeng lù (日省録) and seungjeong-won-ilgi (承政院日記).
It was also confirmed that even though the agreement for the annexation was not signed by the Korean Emperor, it was signed by Korea's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, and this suffices the requirements of International Law.
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Yi?
He lost to Japan and was killed by them. He was not even an admiral.
Another typical fabrication of history by them.
Korea begged Japan to annex and modernize it which Japan did and even paid for it. But Korea changed its mind after the War and started fabricating its history as it is so ashamed of the fact that Korea was a dependency of Chinese dynasties for almost a thousand years since the Yuan Dynasty (which they hide from its nations); it was Japan that gave Korea independence in Shimonoseki Treaty; Koreans failed to modernize the country and begged Japan to annex and modernize. There was no war; it was a signed deal in accordance with International Law; it was an internationally accepted one.
Every single year of annexation, it was a net cash outflow for Japan, and by far. It was such a huge burden to modernize another country.
The following is what the US President Hoover who visited Korea before and after the annexation said:
When I visited Korea in 1909, to advise some Japanese industrialists on engineering matters. The Korean people at that time were in the most disheartening condition that I had witnessed in any part of Asia. There was little law and order. The masses were underfed, under-clothed, under-housed, and under-equipped. There was no sanitation, and filth and squalor enveloped the whole countryside. The roads were hardly passable, and there were scant communication or educational facilities. Scarcely a tree broke the dismal landscape. Thieves and bandits seemed to be unrestrained.
During the thirty-five years of Japanese control, the life of the Korean people was revolutionized. Beginning with this most unpromising human material, the Japanese established order, built harbors, railways, roads and communications, good public buildings, and greatly improved housing. They established sanitation and taught better methods of agriculture. They built immense fertilizer factories in North Korea which lifted the people’s food suppliers to reasonable levels. They reforested the bleak hills. They established a general system of education and development skills. Even dusty, drab and filthy clothing had been replaced with clean bright colors.
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No, this is such crap.
Korea begged Japan to annex and modernize it which Japan did and even paid for it. But Korea changed its mind after the War and started fabricating its history as it is so ashamed of the fact that Korea was a dependency of Chinese dynasties for almost a thousand years since the Yuan Dynasty (which they hide from its nations); it was Japan that gave Korea independence in Shimonoseki Treaty; Koreans failed to modernize the country and begged Japan to annex and modernize.
There was no war; it was a signed deal; it was an internationally accepted one.
Every single year of annexation, it was a net cash outflow for Japan, and by far. It was such a huge burden to modernize another country.
The following is what the US President Hoover who visited Korea before and after the annexation said:
When I visited Korea in 1909, to advise some Japanese industrialists on engineering matters. The Korean people at that time were in the most disheartening condition that I had witnessed in any part of Asia. There was little law and order. The masses were underfed, under-clothed, under-housed, and under-equipped. There was no sanitation, and filth and squalor enveloped the whole countryside. The roads were hardly passable, and there were scant communication or educational facilities. Scarcely a tree broke the dismal landscape. Thieves and bandits seemed to be unrestrained.
During the thirty-five years of Japanese control, the life of the Korean people was revolutionized. Beginning with this most unpromising human material, the Japanese established order, built harbors, railways, roads and communications, good public buildings, and greatly improved housing. They established sanitation and taught better methods of agriculture. They built immense fertilizer factories in North Korea which lifted the people’s food suppliers to reasonable levels. They reforested the bleak hills. They established a general system of education and development skills. Even dusty, drab and filthy clothing had been replaced with clean bright colors.
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No, this is such crap.
Korea begged Japan to annex and modernize it which Japan did and even paid for it. But Korea changed its mind after the War and started fabricating its history as it is so ashamed of the fact that Korea was a dependency of Chinese dynasties for almost a thousand years since the Yuan Dynasty (which they hide from its nations); it was Japan that gave Korea independence in Shimonoseki Treaty; Koreans failed to modernize the country and begged Japan to annex and modernize. There was no war; it was a signed deal in accordance with International Law; it was an internationally accepted one.
Every single year of annexation, it was a net cash outflow for Japan, and by far. It was such a huge burden to modernize another country.
The following is what the US President Hoover who visited Korea before and after the annexation said:
When I visited Korea in 1909, to advise some Japanese industrialists on engineering matters. The Korean people at that time were in the most disheartening condition that I had witnessed in any part of Asia. There was little law and order. The masses were underfed, under-clothed, under-housed, and under-equipped. There was no sanitation, and filth and squalor enveloped the whole countryside. The roads were hardly passable, and there were scant communication or educational facilities. Scarcely a tree broke the dismal landscape. Thieves and bandits seemed to be unrestrained.
During the thirty-five years of Japanese control, the life of the Korean people was revolutionized. Beginning with this most unpromising human material, the Japanese established order, built harbors, railways, roads and communications, good public buildings, and greatly improved housing. They established sanitation and taught better methods of agriculture. They built immense fertilizer factories in North Korea which lifted the people’s food suppliers to reasonable levels. They reforested the bleak hills. They established a general system of education and development skills. Even dusty, drab and filthy clothing had been replaced with clean bright colors.
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No, this is such crap.
Korea begged Japan to annex and modernize it which Japan did and even paid for it. But Korea changed its mind after the War and started fabricating its history as it is so ashamed of the fact that Korea was a dependency of Chinese dynasties for almost a thousand years since the Yuan Dynasty (which they hide from its nations); it was Japan that gave Korea independence in Shimonoseki Treaty; Koreans failed to modernize the country and begged Japan to annex and modernize.
There was no war; it was a signed deal; it was an internationally accepted one.
Every single year of annexation, it was a net cash outflow for Japan, and by far. It was such a huge burden to modernize another country.
The following is what the US President Hoover who visited Korea before and after the annexation said:
When I visited Korea in 1909, to advise some Japanese industrialists on engineering matters. The Korean people at that time were in the most disheartening condition that I had witnessed in any part of Asia. There was little law and order. The masses were underfed, under-clothed, under-housed, and under-equipped. There was no sanitation, and filth and squalor enveloped the whole countryside. The roads were hardly passable, and there were scant communication or educational facilities. Scarcely a tree broke the dismal landscape. Thieves and bandits seemed to be unrestrained.
During the thirty-five years of Japanese control, the life of the Korean people was revolutionized. Beginning with this most unpromising human material, the Japanese established order, built harbors, railways, roads and communications, good public buildings, and greatly improved housing. They established sanitation and taught better methods of agriculture. They built immense fertilizer factories in North Korea which lifted the people’s food suppliers to reasonable levels. They reforested the bleak hills. They established a general system of education and development skills. Even dusty, drab and filthy clothing had been replaced with clean bright colors.
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@Micahistory2
No, this is such crap.
Korea begged Japan to annex and modernize it which Japan did and even paid for it. But Korea changed its mind after the War and started fabricating its history as it is so ashamed of the fact that Korea was a dependency of Chinese dynasties for almost a thousand years since the Yuan Dynasty (which they hide from its nations); it was Japan that gave Korea independence in Shimonoseki Treaty; Koreans failed to modernize the country and begged Japan to annex and modernize.
There was no war; it was a signed deal; it was an internationally accepted one.
Every single year of annexation, it was a net cash outflow for Japan, and by far. It was such a huge burden to modernize another country.
The following is what the US President Hoover who visited Korea before and after the annexation said:
When I visited Korea in 1909, to advise some Japanese industrialists on engineering matters. The Korean people at that time were in the most disheartening condition that I had witnessed in any part of Asia. There was little law and order. The masses were underfed, under-clothed, under-housed, and under-equipped. There was no sanitation, and filth and squalor enveloped the whole countryside. The roads were hardly passable, and there were scant communication or educational facilities. Scarcely a tree broke the dismal landscape. Thieves and bandits seemed to be unrestrained.
During the thirty-five years of Japanese control, the life of the Korean people was revolutionized. Beginning with this most unpromising human material, the Japanese established order, built harbors, railways, roads and communications, good public buildings, and greatly improved housing. They established sanitation and taught better methods of agriculture. They built immense fertilizer factories in North Korea which lifted the people’s food suppliers to reasonable levels. They reforested the bleak hills. They established a general system of education and development skills. Even dusty, drab and filthy clothing had been replaced with clean bright colors.
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No, this is such crap.
Korea begged Japan to annex and modernize it which Japan did and even paid for it. But Korea changed its mind after the War and started fabricating its history as it is so ashamed of the fact that Korea was a dependency of Chinese dynasties for almost a thousand years since the Yuan Dynasty (which they hide from its nations); it was Japan that gave Korea independence in Shimonoseki Treaty; Koreans failed to modernize the country and begged Japan to annex and modernize.
There was no war; it was a signed deal; it was an internationally accepted one.
Every single year of annexation, it was a net cash outflow for Japan, and by far. It was such a huge burden to modernize another country.
The following is what the US President Hoover who visited Korea before and after the annexation said:
When I visited Korea in 1909, to advise some Japanese industrialists on engineering matters. The Korean people at that time were in the most disheartening condition that I had witnessed in any part of Asia. There was little law and order. The masses were underfed, under-clothed, under-housed, and under-equipped. There was no sanitation, and filth and squalor enveloped the whole countryside. The roads were hardly passable, and there were scant communication or educational facilities. Scarcely a tree broke the dismal landscape. Thieves and bandits seemed to be unrestrained.
During the thirty-five years of Japanese control, the life of the Korean people was revolutionized. Beginning with this most unpromising human material, the Japanese established order, built harbors, railways, roads and communications, good public buildings, and greatly improved housing. They established sanitation and taught better methods of agriculture. They built immense fertilizer factories in North Korea which lifted the people’s food suppliers to reasonable levels. They reforested the bleak hills. They established a general system of education and development skills. Even dusty, drab and filthy clothing had been replaced with clean bright colors.
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No, this is such crap.
Korea begged Japan to annex and modernize it which Japan did and even paid for it. But Korea changed its mind after the War and started fabricating its history as it is so ashamed of the fact that Korea was a dependency of Chinese dynasties for almost a thousand years since the Yuan Dynasty (which they hide from its nations); it was Japan that gave Korea independence in Shimonoseki Treaty; Koreans failed to modernize the country and begged Japan to annex and modernize.
There was no war; it was a signed deal; it was an internationally accepted one.
Every single year of annexation, it was a net cash outflow for Japan, and by far. It was such a huge burden to modernize another country.
The following is what the US President Hoover who visited Korea before and after the annexation said:
When I visited Korea in 1909, to advise some Japanese industrialists on engineering matters. The Korean people at that time were in the most disheartening condition that I had witnessed in any part of Asia. There was little law and order. The masses were underfed, under-clothed, under-housed, and under-equipped. There was no sanitation, and filth and squalor enveloped the whole countryside. The roads were hardly passable, and there were scant communication or educational facilities. Scarcely a tree broke the dismal landscape. Thieves and bandits seemed to be unrestrained.
During the thirty-five years of Japanese control, the life of the Korean people was revolutionized. Beginning with this most unpromising human material, the Japanese established order, built harbors, railways, roads and communications, good public buildings, and greatly improved housing. They established sanitation and taught better methods of agriculture. They built immense fertilizer factories in North Korea which lifted the people’s food suppliers to reasonable levels. They reforested the bleak hills. They established a general system of education and development skills. Even dusty, drab and filthy clothing had been replaced with clean bright colors.
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No, this is such crap.
Korea begged Japan to annex and modernize it which Japan did and even paid for it. But Korea changed its mind after the War and started fabricating its history as it is so ashamed of the fact that Korea was a dependency of Chinese dynasties for almost a thousand years since the Yuan Dynasty (which they hide from its nations); it was Japan that gave Korea independence in Shimonoseki Treaty; Koreans failed to modernize the country and begged Japan to annex and modernize.
There was no war; it was a signed deal; it was an internationally accepted one.
Every single year of annexation, it was a net cash outflow for Japan, and by far. It was such a huge burden to modernize another country.
The following is what the US President Hoover who visited Korea before and after the annexation said:
When I visited Korea in 1909, to advise some Japanese industrialists on engineering matters. The Korean people at that time were in the most disheartening condition that I had witnessed in any part of Asia. There was little law and order. The masses were underfed, under-clothed, under-housed, and under-equipped. There was no sanitation, and filth and squalor enveloped the whole countryside. The roads were hardly passable, and there were scant communication or educational facilities. Scarcely a tree broke the dismal landscape. Thieves and bandits seemed to be unrestrained.
During the thirty-five years of Japanese control, the life of the Korean people was revolutionized. Beginning with this most unpromising human material, the Japanese established order, built harbors, railways, roads and communications, good public buildings, and greatly improved housing. They established sanitation and taught better methods of agriculture. They built immense fertilizer factories in North Korea which lifted the people’s food suppliers to reasonable levels. They reforested the bleak hills. They established a general system of education and development skills. Even dusty, drab and filthy clothing had been replaced with clean bright colors.
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No, this is such crap.
Korea begged Japan to annex and modernize it which Japan did and even paid for it. But Korea changed its mind after the War and started fabricating its history as it is so ashamed of the fact that Korea was a dependency of Chinese dynasties for almost a thousand years since the Yuan Dynasty (which they hide from its nations); it was Japan that gave Korea independence in Shimonoseki Treaty; Koreans failed to modernize the country and begged Japan to annex and modernize.
There was no war; it was a signed deal; it was an internationally accepted one.
Every single year of annexation, it was a net cash outflow for Japan, and by far. It was such a huge burden to modernize another country.
The following is what the US President Hoover who visited Korea before and after the annexation said:
When I visited Korea in 1909, to advise some Japanese industrialists on engineering matters. The Korean people at that time were in the most disheartening condition that I had witnessed in any part of Asia. There was little law and order. The masses were underfed, under-clothed, under-housed, and under-equipped. There was no sanitation, and filth and squalor enveloped the whole countryside. The roads were hardly passable, and there were scant communication or educational facilities. Scarcely a tree broke the dismal landscape. Thieves and bandits seemed to be unrestrained.
During the thirty-five years of Japanese control, the life of the Korean people was revolutionized. Beginning with this most unpromising human material, the Japanese established order, built harbors, railways, roads and communications, good public buildings, and greatly improved housing. They established sanitation and taught better methods of agriculture. They built immense fertilizer factories in North Korea which lifted the people’s food suppliers to reasonable levels. They reforested the bleak hills. They established a general system of education and development skills. Even dusty, drab and filthy clothing had been replaced with clean bright colors.
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No, this is such crap.
Korea begged Japan to annex and modernize it which Japan did and even paid for it. But Korea changed its mind after the War and started fabricating its history as it is so ashamed of the fact that Korea was a dependency of Chinese dynasties for almost a thousand years since the Yuan Dynasty (which they hide from its nations); it was Japan that gave Korea independence in Shimonoseki Treaty; Koreans failed to modernize the country and begged Japan to annex and modernize. There was no war; it was a signed deal in accordance with International Law; it was an internationally accepted one.
Every single year of annexation, it was a net cash outflow for Japan, and by far. It was such a huge burden to modernize another country.
The following is what the US President Hoover who visited Korea before and after the annexation said:
When I visited Korea in 1909, to advise some Japanese industrialists on engineering matters. The Korean people at that time were in the most disheartening condition that I had witnessed in any part of Asia. There was little law and order. The masses were underfed, under-clothed, under-housed, and under-equipped. There was no sanitation, and filth and squalor enveloped the whole countryside. The roads were hardly passable, and there were scant communication or educational facilities. Scarcely a tree broke the dismal landscape. Thieves and bandits seemed to be unrestrained.
During the thirty-five years of Japanese control, the life of the Korean people was revolutionized. Beginning with this most unpromising human material, the Japanese established order, built harbors, railways, roads and communications, good public buildings, and greatly improved housing. They established sanitation and taught better methods of agriculture. They built immense fertilizer factories in North Korea which lifted the people’s food suppliers to reasonable levels. They reforested the bleak hills. They established a general system of education and development skills. Even dusty, drab and filthy clothing had been replaced with clean bright colors.
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@Valencetheshireman927
No, this is such crap.
Korea begged Japan to annex and modernize it which Japan did and even paid for it. But Korea changed its mind after the War and started fabricating its history as it is so ashamed of the fact that Korea was a dependency of Chinese dynasties for almost a thousand years since the Yuan Dynasty (which they hide from its nations); it was Japan that gave Korea independence in Shimonoseki Treaty; Koreans failed to modernize the country and begged Japan to annex and modernize.
There was no war; it was a signed deal; it was an internationally accepted one.
Every single year of annexation, it was a net cash outflow for Japan, and by far. It was such a huge burden to modernize another country.
The following is what the US President Hoover who visited Korea before and after the annexation said:
When I visited Korea in 1909, to advise some Japanese industrialists on engineering matters. The Korean people at that time were in the most disheartening condition that I had witnessed in any part of Asia. There was little law and order. The masses were underfed, under-clothed, under-housed, and under-equipped. There was no sanitation, and filth and squalor enveloped the whole countryside. The roads were hardly passable, and there were scant communication or educational facilities. Scarcely a tree broke the dismal landscape. Thieves and bandits seemed to be unrestrained.
During the thirty-five years of Japanese control, the life of the Korean people was revolutionized. Beginning with this most unpromising human material, the Japanese established order, built harbors, railways, roads and communications, good public buildings, and greatly improved housing. They established sanitation and taught better methods of agriculture. They built immense fertilizer factories in North Korea which lifted the people’s food suppliers to reasonable levels. They reforested the bleak hills. They established a general system of education and development skills. Even dusty, drab and filthy clothing had been replaced with clean bright colors.
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