What if the Korean Peninsula had been a U.S. colony?
There was a brief conflict between the United States and Korea in 1871. But what if the U.S. had colonized Korea back then, just as it did the Philippines?
u/GEAEMPIRE — 5 days ago
There was a brief conflict between the United States and Korea in 1871. But what if the U.S. had colonized Korea back then, just as it did the Philippines?
Was it really a bad thing that the Japanese Government-General of Korea mandated the use of Japanese-style surnames? For hundreds of years, Korea was a slave-owning society that treated its own people as slaves. Consequently, when the entire population was required to adopt surnames, slaves took their masters’ surnames, which is why Koreans have very few surnames. The Japanese Empire, aware of this, created Japanese-style surnames for administrative convenience but allowed individuals to choose their own given names.
Koreans do not tell the truth. They have thoroughly demonized Japan. Could a colony where nothing but murder and rape took place have become the second-most prosperous region in Asia at that time?