Have the Koreans ever committed notable atrocities?

[YUPPIE]

if you have China as it has been since at least Mao Zedong on one hand, and Imperial Japan on the other during WW2, which was the devil in human form, you always hear about Korea just being the beaten underdog victimized by both sides.

Up until the split though, and even then NK is in their own world, have the Koreans done anything particularly evil that's worth mentioning? Besides the victim notion, they're seen as pretty alright people most of the time in stereotypical terms.

Like you never ever hear about Korea and evil atrocities unless you look up for things that aren't really different from the average nation's past. Most of them just concern NK in stereotypical ways.

[PC2]

Are you specifically talking about a Korean state atrocity or anything atrocious that has happened on their soil through-out history or modern history?

We shouldn't generalize groups of people based on the bad behaviours of some people. Some Koreans have done atrocious things, most have not. That's true for all countries, doesn't matter if you're talking about Americans, Russians, Koreans, etc.

[XDurionX]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...ean_War_crimes

Yeah, googling is hard

[YUPPIE]

Are you specifically talking about a Korean state atrocity or anything atrocious that has happened on their soil through-out history or modern history?

We shouldn't generalize groups of people based on the bad behaviours of some people. Some Koreans have done atrocious things, most have not. That's true for all countries, doesn't matter if you're talking about Americans, Russians, Koreans, etc.

yeah state atrocity or war crime, either one.

But if most haven't, then it's not really worth mentioning since it would mean Korea is pretty inoffensive overall. I would definitely say "most" when it concerns Americans, Russians, and JP during the past though.

[Kaleredar]

yeah state atrocity or war crime, either one.

But if most haven't, then it's not really worth mentioning since it would mean Korea is pretty inoffensive overall. I would definitely say "most" when it concerns Americans, Russians, and JP during the past though.

I’m going to guess the Korean War wasn’t a time of butterflies and sunshine in their history.

[Shadowferal]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...ean_War_crimes Yeah, googling is hard

Yea...don't even have to go back far. Plenty of scary shit just on the prior handful of decades.

[jonnysensible]

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[Yuujin]

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[Easo]

yea kpop mate

I wanted to link Korean War crap, but you just won this thread.

[Polyxo]

ROK special forces were involved in the Vietnam war, and they were apparently pretty brutal.

[Elegiac]

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[Grimbold21]

Excessively effeminate men. Or was that Japan?

[D Luniz]

Excessively effeminate men. Or was that Japan?

if your talking about what I think you are, Philippines I think

[Queen of Hamsters]

if your talking about what I think you are, Philippines I think

Forgive me, but what exactly are ya'll talking about?

[D Luniz]

Forgive me, but what exactly are ya'll talking about?

apparently, something infractable as trolling

[Biglog]

The main thing is be very careful of revisionist history that tries to stretch the truth to make a moral equivalence. For example saying X country did this, so it's ok that Y country did that. Or for a specific example, Japan occupied Korea for about 50 years in the early 1900s and abused the Korean people horribly during that time. But someone pro-Japan will find an example of Korea doing something bad and will say, see both did bad things. But Japan's actions were on a different level and not really comparable to what Korea endured for decades. So it's a slippery slope to go down.

[Bakis]

yea kpop mate

HAHAHAH so true
It is The Final Solution to eardrums.

[JohnBrown1917]

The main thing is be very careful of revisionist history that tries to stretch the truth to make a moral equivalence. For example saying X country did this, so it's ok that Y country did that. Or for a specific example, Japan occupied Korea for about 50 years in the early 1900s and abused the Korean people horribly during that time. But someone pro-Japan will find an example of Korea doing something bad and will say, see both did bad things. But Japan's actions were on a different level and not really comparable to what Korea endured for decades. So it's a slippery slope to go down.

Im not really sure why Japanese war crimes against Koreans are relevant to the (south-)Korean war crimes against other Koreans.