u/EyeEmpty7485

Hello, everyone. I recently came across an interesting post discussing how Chinese culture gets rebranded as Korean or Japanese due to Sinophobia. Interestingly, the tweet in that post actually features a Korean candy. In China, foreign brand names are written in Chinese characters, which I think caused the confusion. Both Chinese and Korean netizens can probably agree that the Sino-Korean cultural dispute has gotten out of hand due to propaganda. As a Korean who believes in Pan-Asian unity, I think it's important for us to end this conflict. How about we ask each other questions with mutual respect—without hatred—and answer them openly?

Hi everyone, I’m korean. I was always really curious of how everyone here got into kdramas. Plus, which factor do you guys think makes Kdrama special than other country’s shows? Also, how popular was “teach you a lesson”?

I’m a girl who knows absolutely nothing about Soviet Union. I want to learn about it in a non capitalist perspective but also understand that why it collapsed. Can you recommend me some books or perhaps a creator who can help me do it?

I have been on twitter recently and interacted with different kinds of people on there. It makes me feel angry that so many people have this distorted perception of South Korea. I feel like west views Korea not as a place where people actually live in but as a video game where they can just gossip about. Additionally, fellow East Asians having this hatred towards us isn’t helping me. Don’t get me wrong I am aware that East Asians hate each other. Korean community is also known for shitting on Japanese and Chinese. But seems like the hatred that Japanese and Chinese have towards us is just so twisted that sometimes I am even surprised. Especially Chinese netizens saying stuff like our entire history is just being slaves or we have no culture. I also saw some Chinese netizens on twitter saying stuff like Korean women is known for being sex slaves. It makes me just so sad that we are viewed this way. It’s not like we committed war crimes during World War Two like Japan or our government is harassing different countries like china’s. Why do you think this happened? Or how should we handle this?

I have seen a lot of Chinese folks say that kimono came from tang dynasty hanfu. Is this true? I personally don’t think they look the same😳

안녕하세요. 저는 한국 문화를 좋아하고 한국 분들을 존중하는 중국인입니다. 제 목표 중 하나는 한국어를 원어민 수준으로 유창하게 구사하는 것입니다.
최근 인터넷을 보다 보면 안타까운 현상을 종종 목격합니다. 중국 내에서 많은 사람들이 한국의 드라마, 영화, 음악 등 대중문화를 즐기고 소비하면서도, 동시에 온라인에서는 한국인을 비하하는 단어(예: 빵쯔 등)를 쉽게 사용하는 모순적인 모습을 봅니다. 저는 같은 중국인으로서 이러한 맹목적인 적대감과 무례함에 깊은 슬픔과 회의감을 느낍니다.
제 개인적인 바람은, 한중일 세 나라가 서로를 배척하기보다는 '동아시아'라는 공통의 문화적 배경을 바탕으로 더 깊이 이해하고 협력하는 것입니다. 맹목적인 갈등을 넘어, 각국의 장점을 서로 배우고 교류한다면 동아시아 전체가 훨씬 더 긍정적이고 번영하는 방향으로 발전할 수 있다고 생각합니다.
그래서 레딧의 한국 유저분들께 여쭤보고 싶습니다.
한국분들은 현재의 한중 관계와 향후 민간 교류의 미래에 대해 어떻게 생각하시나요? 거시적인 정치 이슈를 떠나, 평범한 개인으로서 우리가 서로를 이해하고 긍정적인 관계를 구축하는 것이 가능하다고 보시는지 여러분의 솔직한 생각이 궁금합니다.
읽어주셔서 감사합니다.