I learn a lot by reading her book, pachinko and listening her lecture at amherst univ. I am honored to learn from her how to criticize social problem in a noble way and a way caring individuals inside the society
I wonder what Japanese people would think of Masayoshi Son the 2nd richest man in Japan who is 4th generation Korean Japanese who before getting a BS degree from Uc Berkeley had a Japanese last name, a choice his family made to 'survive' in JapN but upon returnig to Japan he changed it back to his Korean last name Son (손). He decided to 'come out'.
I'm so glad that the Koreans in Japan issue is gaining some recognition in the US and around the world. I'm Korean who has lived in the UK for a long time and my experience has been overall positive. I have been treated equally and thanks to that I've also learnt to do the same to others, no matter what their background is. The Korean community in the UK is still very young. British people don't really know about us and maybe we just don't get enough attention let alone discrimination. The life of Koreans in Japan breaks my heart. And I hope that won't be the story for the Koreans here in the UK in the future. I've seen many documentaries, movies and books, hear on the news about the "Chosen" kids being bullied and schools targeted/threatened, the politicians manipulating the North Korean issue to demonise the Koreans in Japan for decades, the rise of the far right, the comments on Yahoo Japan about Korean news, the internet forums.. the list goes on. It's so deep rooted - most of the time cruelly subtle, sometimes shamelessly open. I'm not surprised that Min faced those "you're Korean" experiences because it's become so integrated to the Japanese people's subconscious and it just slips out. I feel a chilling sensation just thinking about what my life would be like if I was disadvantaged like that by the UK law and its people. And even worse if I was 4th/5th generation but still a 2nd class citizen, bottom of the hierarchy, labelled as the "Korean who is always complaining".
Don't be depressed. I'm 1975 Myongdong PA(19 years old clerk with Korea Exchange Bank 🏦 by that time with London Branch also) I was a Foreign Student who worked in COLDWELL BANKER Commercial during the period of 1986ㅡ1989 I take control of Civilized portion first but eventually deal with rest of barbarians in the end. So. just take it easy n Enjoy your life in UK brilliantly.
이민진 선생님, I am a Korean American like yourself. I heard of this racism in Japan. But, I follow an Australian who married a Japanese who lives there who describes his frustration of Japanese insistence of not changing ways, even if there is a better way. For simple thing as manually moving bricks with hands instead of using a cart, he gets similar comments - like 'you think you are smarter than our tradition'.. what I am getting at is that it could be Japanese culture to follow orders without any question. That with our western eyes, it looks like racism. And then with lots of these cultural misunderstandings, ppl create their own groups and in the end create real racism towards one another bc there is no dialog and everyone lives in their echochambers.
1:00:20 That's very sad and ignorant on Japanese part. If we treat Japanese descendant here in US exactly the same way how Japanese people & Gov in Japan treat other races or country origin, would they like it?
Reasoning with them won't work. Even tho they are the ones who dropped bombs at Perl Harbor first, Japanese think they are the victim of the war. Their history textbook won't mention anything bad about what they did, that's why most of them don't know the true history unless they come out of Japan and study history.
이민진 작가님 책읽어주실 때 모든 세상이 사라지고 제가 그 전당포에 앉아있는 기분이었어요. 제 손바닥에 땀이 나는 기분... 존경합니다!
이민진 작가님 존경합니다 그리고 가슴아프게 사랑합니다 건강하세요.
I learn a lot by reading her book, pachinko and listening her lecture at amherst univ. I am honored to learn from her how to criticize social problem in a noble way and a way caring individuals inside the society
I wonder what Japanese people would think of Masayoshi Son the 2nd richest man in Japan who is 4th generation Korean Japanese who before getting a BS degree from Uc Berkeley had a Japanese last name, a choice his family made to 'survive' in JapN but upon returnig to Japan he changed it back to his Korean last name Son (손). He decided to 'come out'.
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what an energy! I was impressed by vividness of Min Jin's sister and her pride toward her sister. She deserves.
I'm so glad that the Koreans in Japan issue is gaining some recognition in the US and around the world. I'm Korean who has lived in the UK for a long time and my experience has been overall positive. I have been treated equally and thanks to that I've also learnt to do the same to others, no matter what their background is. The Korean community in the UK is still very young. British people don't really know about us and maybe we just don't get enough attention let alone discrimination.
The life of Koreans in Japan breaks my heart. And I hope that won't be the story for the Koreans here in the UK in the future. I've seen many documentaries, movies and books, hear on the news about the "Chosen" kids being bullied and schools targeted/threatened, the politicians manipulating the North Korean issue to demonise the Koreans in Japan for decades, the rise of the far right, the comments on Yahoo Japan about Korean news, the internet forums.. the list goes on. It's so deep rooted - most of the time cruelly subtle, sometimes shamelessly open. I'm not surprised that Min faced those "you're Korean" experiences because it's become so integrated to the Japanese people's subconscious and it just slips out. I feel a chilling sensation just thinking about what my life would be like if I was disadvantaged like that by the UK law and its people. And even worse if I was 4th/5th generation but still a 2nd class citizen, bottom of the hierarchy, labelled as the "Korean who is always complaining".
Don't be depressed.
I'm 1975 Myongdong PA(19 years old clerk with Korea Exchange Bank 🏦 by that time with London Branch also)
I was a Foreign Student who worked in COLDWELL BANKER Commercial during the period of 1986ㅡ1989
I take control of Civilized portion first
but eventually deal with rest of barbarians in the end.
So. just take it easy n Enjoy your life in UK brilliantly.
Love when Ken presides over the Q&A part of this talk with his solitliciting statement: "other thoughts..."
이민진 선생님, I am a Korean American like yourself. I heard of this racism in Japan. But, I follow an Australian who married a Japanese who lives there who describes his frustration of Japanese insistence of not changing ways, even if there is a better way. For simple thing as manually moving bricks with hands instead of using a cart, he gets similar comments - like 'you think you are smarter than our tradition'.. what I am getting at is that it could be Japanese culture to follow orders without any question. That with our western eyes, it looks like racism. And then with lots of these cultural misunderstandings, ppl create their own groups and in the end create real racism towards one another bc there is no dialog and everyone lives in their echochambers.
What a wonderful sister's and a lovely introduction.
경희와선자가 한수가 준 시계를 팔려고 전당포주인과 대화하는 장면은 어찌나 조마 조마하든지 긴장하면서 읽은 부분 이 장면이 있은 후 후일에 한수가
1:00:20 That's very sad and ignorant on Japanese part. If we treat Japanese descendant here in US exactly the same way how Japanese people & Gov in Japan treat other races or country origin, would they like it?
Reasoning with them won't work. Even tho they are the ones who dropped bombs at Perl Harbor first, Japanese think they are the victim of the war. Their history textbook won't mention anything bad about what they did, that's why most of them don't know the true history unless they come out of Japan and study history.