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Walter Mitty
Joined: 27 Mar 2003
Location: Tokyo! ^.^
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 Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:11 pm Post subject: Re: The Korean Ban on Japanese Cultural Products |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
| For instance, these days, the wonderful films of Hayao Miyazaki have only recently become available. Anyone who is a fan of animation will know that the film My Neighbor Totoro is a decade old, and it finally saw its release in Korea just last year. I've heard the reason for this is that Korea is trying to protect their burgeoning (yeah, still pretty much non-existent) animated film industry. Whatever. |
You'll see the same reaction from the American animation industry to his films as well. Disney pretty much guaranteed Spirited Away would tank at the box office, releasing it on a very limited number of screens. That way they could say, "see, Japanese animation just doesn't play well in the US." Then it goes on to win the Oscar for best animated feature. Oops! Time for a post-Oscar re-release and talk about how fantastic it is.
Face it, Disney, if it weren't for Pixar, your animation department would be dead. What's going to happen when their contract with you runs out? 
The Korean animation industry has probably made more money off The Simpsons than any domestic product. |
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Psy
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
Location: Hongdae
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Even in Taiwan, which was under Japanese rule for an even longer time than Korea, "Japan" is readily found. |
This may be true, but as Taiwan was just a conquered territory used primarily as a military base during the Second World War, Japan did its best Borg impression on Korea when Japan launched the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Moreover, there are still many survivors who still remember their Japanese names, speak the Japanese language fluently, and have their memories as army sex slaves ingrained forever.
Would we comment if Israelis banned German or Nazi products? I only compare with the Nazi in the case of both assimilation and genocide ending in the same result (annhilation of a race/ethnicity) which both these countries attempted to do.
With the passage of time, the memories and hatred dies. Thus, I can see bans disappearing and the youth accepting. I hope the Korean people can forgive. (not asking to forget) Perhaps this is one reason they seem like such a proud and hostile (especially to waygookin) people.
In most of the world, it's the government that control the people, not the other way around. |
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