Message from pmarkey

[Anonymous]

This session on Korea was very fascinating. I totally respect Professor Jung-Kim, and found her lecture to be very informative, but in dealing with the Japanese treatment of Korea, I feel she was boxing with kid gloves. Maybe because she herself being Korean, she did not feel that she should be the one to express the outrage toward the Japanese treatment, and the continued denials of that treatment. The forced assimilation of the Korean people to Japanese culture, including the changing of their names, and the whole idea of "Japan and Korea as one Body" so that Koreans become Japanese, is tantamount to cultural genocide. Japan has never acknowledged this as being wrong, and we, the country that helped rebuild Japan, and gave it its constitution, have never pushed them to do so. This is a tragedy.