Children's drawings in the subway!, How cute.

At various subway stations in Korea, they often are decorated with school art projects at different times of the year. Fire safety, future jobs, home life, technology, and so on.



The theme of this one appears to be "Fuck Japan!"



Yep, "Fuck Japan" indeed.



Bring your friends to the stomping parade!



It appears to be asking why they do not die and leave Korea's rocks alone.



The Japanese flags appear to stop burning once removed from a flame source.



Rather creative use of combining flag burning and "shitty".



This student skipped the metaphor and went for drawing the real deal.



Korean movies will stab at Japan...



...and Japan will die.



When not being burned or stomped, Japan's flag gets beat down by Korea's flag,



The fires get moved from the flags to the mainland! But what caused the fire?



Was it bombs?



A war?



Perhaps a really big war.



Or maybe even Korean volanoes?



"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee!"



Those Japanese are pretty sneaky, so it seems the Koreans will need two knives. Or possibly three.



Screw the knives, the mainland will fall when the handguns get whipped out.



Will the hand of God strike Japan down? Perhaps so!



Why all the anger? Basically it's over the Liancourt Rocks. The Korean media decided to play up the issue this spring. And the Korean government rather than be mature about it and resolve it in the legal or political arena (legal being unlikely as few observers hold the opinion that Korea's claim will be upheld, and political resolution has not happened because it is unlikely that Japan will surrender all claims to the rocks), instead the government ordered the public schools to tell the students the Korean view without actually backing it up.

And this is the result.



Yep, hands off!



It used to belong to Japan, but now it's Korean according to this picture.



Look at how happy the locals are now that Japan is no longer around.



Even Sailor Moon is saying "fuck Japan!"



Someone went and tattooed a gaint outline of Korea on the rocks. Now Japan can't have them back.



Japan can not reclaim the islands by force because the clouds will stop them.



Another map to where the rocks are.



Another photo of what the students are angry about for the wrong reasons.



Though they will gang-beat any Japanese citizens who try and correct them.



And they will beat them in the boats!



They will do that because Japan is a nation of liars.



A nation of liars led by a dog.



Seems this child believes that Japan was formed by a rabbit.



No matter how many times Japan says "sorry for the tough love", Korea will refuse to accept it.



Perhaps nothing less than Japan's total surrender will suffice.



Failure to surrender will result in the foot of Korea crushing down upon the Japanese. Or perhaps they'll do it after a surrender. My Korean isn't that good.



Victory!



There were many, many more. And more upstairs as well. But that is enough for now.



Thus ends another happy day in Korea.

Part two for those who are interested.

I was about to write something snide, but perhaps these rocks contain valuable resources. I remember a Transformer's episode where the Deceptacons found much bird guano with which to manufacture explosives on a similarly small and uninhabited island.

Ah... There is just something about Propaganda among the young that just brings a tear to your eye...

Man, when I did similar things as a youth, I got promptly squashed by lengthy sessions with several psychitrists... I guess I should have lived in Korea...

Really makes you wonder just how informed all these kids are on the subject...

It makes me wonder how really informed we are as a culture on the things we feel (or are told to feel) strongly about. Where do textbooks come from anyway?

This post has been edited by Patrick Lee on Jun 14 2005, 12:42 PM

Whatever Korean children are saying here in their drawings look so biased to me.
And, something that is even more biasing is rather the view or this person who put biased captions for the kids' artworks.
I think it's an ugly thing to manipulate and teach hatred to small kids.
If college students in Korea are doing this kind of job, I would hear that voice, perhaps.
On the one hand, in recent decades, Korea is starting to accept more from Japanese cultures, and Japan is starting to accept more and more from korean cultures. On the other hand, Korean kids are exposed to anger and political views that tries to separate friendship from Korea and Japan. You can have that kind of political stand if you are mature and responsible, but it is unfair to give small kids, who cannot argue yet, to agitate anger among kids' community.

望まれる: 年古いかわいい日本のガールフレンドの年齢 25 から31 。論議するべき電子メールshumway_g@hotmail.com 。

I still can't see Asian characters in my browser, and ever if I could, I still can't read any Asian languages.

Could we get someone to translate Gord's last post?

Kids are biased. They can't help it. Children up to about age 7 or so are little tape recorders/DVRs of what they see and do around them. It's not manipulation - it's just a fact.

And it's a fine line between Healthy Nationalistic Pride and Biased Hatred.

Are images like this any worse than the 'Noble Savages' style of condinsending crap? I honestly don't think so. And every country deals out it's share of that. Especially America, which is the whole basis of the 'Ugly American In Europe' stereotype.

I can easily imagine someone from Japan looking at this and saying, "Oh, it's so sad the Koreans are beyond reason to allow something like this to happen, but it is very Korean to do so." or "It's just how THEY are..."

Feh.

I'll stop now.

What browser do you use? If you're using Firefox, try this site, and I can also highly recommend the Moji extension to translate the occasional kanji and hiragana/katakana.

Unfortunately, I think I've learned enough Japanese in two semesters to mostly recognize what Gord said, but not at all enough to translate it for my fellow Anglophones.

Very interesting. Where can I see those drawings?

This thread delivers.

I've seen some pictures of grown korean men soaked in
gasolin torching themselves alive in protest.

soccer survey1soccer survey2

*bows with palms placed together* I would like to humbly ask you a
favor, my dear yanky friend, with blight blue eyez, to skim thru
these pages *raises a heavy mallet and sounds the gong twice*

日本の読者諸氏へ
これら韓国児童の絵の下にゴードが書き加えた文章は子供までをも反日運動に利用している韓国政府のやり方に対する痛烈な皮肉です。其処の所を良くお汲み取りください。

It is supposed to mean Wanted: cute girlfriend, from 25 to 31 y.o. Please contact blablabla. As he used an automatic translator, the result is a faulty word by word rendering but it is “understandable”.

I've seen some pictures of grown korean men soaked in
gasolin torching themselves alive in protest.

Japanese men used to fly perfectly good aircraft into ships. Americans have a nasty habit of sending people to reservations/internment camps/etc. Australians eat yeast willingly.

That doesn't really change the facts that a child's biases are a reflection of its' environment.

Blue eyes? Hell, my eyes are brown, as I am an American that is Full of Shit.

And I'm a big fan of Eurpoean Football Hooliganism - I'm biased. But the Brazilians sure are trying to make up for lost time.

I am an American and I willingly eat yeast too.

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Hello everyone. its llooll from Japan.I've just registered today.

Gord-san,your forum is very interesting. Thank you for all the informations.
I'm afraid that I won't to be able to send you an e-mail 'cause I AM Japanese but
NOT YOUNG Japanese girl.

I saw these drawings. It was so shocking.
As a mother of two, I'm very anxious about those anti-Japan act in Korea.

It's very easy to manipulate a pure child's mind.
We should not involve our child in the controversy of the adult.
I agree with befehlen "Children have to behave like children"

I hope they will stop these act before things getting worth.
Sleeping patriotism is now trying to wake up in Japan.

sorry for strange English.

"Gord, the newest international incident between Korea and Japan!" All from a thread on his personal forum.

Look at the numbers of the viewers!

This forum became very popular in korea and Japan in 2DAYS!