Debate reignited over Japanese buildings in South Korea
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- Опубліковано 10 лис 2024
- September 2 marks the 75th anniversary of the formal surrender of Japan - and the moment that brought World War II to an end.
Japan’s defeat in South Korea has reignited a debate over what to do with the buildings they constructed during their occupation of the Korean Peninsula.
Al Jazeera's Rob McBride reports from Seoul.
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When I visited Ireland I saw a lot of old British buildings some even with the British coat of arms still on them. If the building is used for something different then it shouldn’t be a big deal. It’s a part of history.
Same with Prussian buildings in Poland.
even in ex soviet baltic countries that are considering that the annexation was actually an occupation, there are still many soviet buildings and even nuclear power plant that are still in use
koreans like to talk about it even though a centrie has passed
Exactly! Own it.
No matter if you successfully destroyed all the buildings from the past. Still the pain does not faded away.
The irony is that many Koreans like to refer to “A nation that forgets its past has no future”.
Destroying colonial structures does not mean that you will forget the history, as Korea still teaches the history, and is recorded in the book.
That means we should not deny history like Japan.
@@fishjy84 You are denying the history you didn't fight against imperial Japan, and pretending a victor country or a victim of the war.
@@깉알못-n2x I can imagine Korea will add a SPECIAL chamber to every single colonial structure based on their imagination once they removed all of them.
@@jsasa1861,Nope why do you think so? I guess that is the norm in Japan?🤔 Well anyways, Japan is famous in distorting history😄
in my country ( italy ) we have many building built during the fascist age ... bad or good it is anyway history .. you cant keep just the history you like
Views on history also change as time goes on.
Why not if you are only going to say what you like might as well do it
Yes is like if we remove the colonial constructions in my country(México), which besides being part of the history, it could be acussed as remaints of a bad era.
@@andresmiltongutierrezorteg2764 mexican here, colonial buildings represent mexico as much as the precolumbian ones
It was demolished from August 15, 1995, and was completely demolished in November 1996.
Many Japanese leave false comments here
They should not destroy those buildings because that's historical things
If you name is "japanfanatic14" your opinion is invalid
You say that because Japan is "a victim" for you, ridiculous
When you stop being a Japan fanatic, you could talk
'Debate reignited' - does your 'reporter' know? If yes, he failed to tell us anything about who debates whom, what are the arguments of each side, how the issue was settled after the initial debate, and why Koreans have been debating it again?
where is the debate? i dont see it, the buildings were demolished with near unanimous support from korean people
Koreans will tell you a secret, Japanese colonial buildings look nicer and better than you built before and after the rule of Japan, by destroying them you are destroying a short era of European classicism in Korea!
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Very interesting. Japan has left her mark on Asia.
Japan left good infrastructure . built station, libraries, hospitals and schools. they should not have spent money for this red country.
Right? Germany culled human population, preserved superior human genes, prevents Jewish from taking over economy, developed advance technology, if it weren't for the good for nothing ****ing idiot USA to ruin it all...
@@newborn6 I reported your comment to a police as you praised Nazis.
@@jsasa1861 You are an idiot if you can't see the sarcastic comparison I made with july 4th. The context we used are ignoring the war crimes and instead trying to spin the narrative towards the opposite direction. What do they teach you in school these days ...
@@newborn6 S.k's current government is red. So july 4th comment is right. Fk off leftists.
@@efefdfdfdfd Do you even comprehend what red means in this context? Do you? And is your only way to argue an opinion is to calling people "leftists"? how immature..
It is true that Korea and Taiwan became colonies of Japan.
But Japan is not even at war with Taiwan or South Korea.
Japan defeated Qing in the Sino-Japanese War, Taiwan was ceded to Japan, and the Republic of China and Korea became independent.
After that, the Russian Empire moved south to colonize Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula, and Japan fought on its behalf, and the Korean Empire was annexed by Japan.
The current Koreans claim that this annexation is invalid, but that is the current Korean values, and there were a certain number of politicians in the Korean Empire at that time who supported Japan.
By this time, the United States had also annexed Hawaii and the Philippines.
If Japan had lost the Russo-Japanese War, Korea and Manchuria would have become part of the Russian Empire.
If you look at the Korea-Japan Basic Treaty signed on June 22, 1965, it states that all treaties and agreements concluded between the Korean Empire and the Empire of Japan on or before August 22, 1910 are invalid. Therefore, the Korea-Japan Annexation is also invalid.
When they occupied Indonesia, all they built only cave.
i think the colonial buildings is like spoils of war. the building is useful and we could only get rid of the colonizers' symbol. if you destroy those spoils of war, it's like you got weapons from your colonizer but you naively choose to throw it away in the name of 'pride'
This is some smooth brained take here lmao.
Why do you netouyo care about Korea so much?
Are some of you kind of self-hating Koreans who are trying to deny your own lineage?
This is pathetic LOL.
Subscribed Al Jazeera to gain another angle on the world, instead I am disappointed with garbage entrees filler news designed for their Arab masters who probably has financial interests with the Japanese. AJ serious;y need to reassess their identity and mission statement.
So then why keep it? Sure keep the prison but why not build your own?
Natt Sashikata did you even watch the video? they want to keep it in order to remember their past, history of getting invaded is still a history to them. Do you want them to just sweep away everything under the carpet?
Taeung Choi no I am saying get right of the buildings the useful ones that serve no purpose other then hate. Keep like prison camps or something that would remind them that the Japanese Kll them with pride.
Free building.
Surprised you still believe what Korea claims.
@Pedro Japan didn't rape and loot korea.
@@100M2B lol.. i aren't Japanese. I'm Indian and i'm typing what's taught in our History. I live in India.
@@100M2B koreans holding ranks in Japanese army also meant that koreans participated in the Nanking massacre along with Japanese.
I never could understand Korean logic. Why bring out nuke and other stuff? I’m just saying your history is fake.
Oh and please don’t send death threats to people in video links you guys are so famous for.
Be civilized.
“Preserve and respect the history of the land is the duty of every civilised person!”
If you hate them so much, why don't you just cross them? Japan has even made formal reparations through the Japan-Korea agreement mediated by the US.
Hong kong government house looks better without that ugly tower.
I suppose Al Jazeera positively challenge to controversial issue. Most Koreans may feel that this report Al Jazeera tries to insult pride of Korean people.
We do not want to demolish Japanese buildings 🤷🏻♀️ Al Jazeera didn’t do any research. The only building we wanted gone was the Government General Building, which was built on the top of our Imperial Palace.
@@x6621 If this report is not correct, Al Jazeera should regret the stance of reporting.
@@宴は終わったが al jazeera is the problem. This isnt the first time they used wrong information
No they aren't.
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