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1. Korea tries to be better than Japan (or imitate them)? Is there an obsession with Japan?
2. I've always thought it is cool that every korean guy has done military service. How was it? Every korean is good with guns?
3. Do you like Hidden Singer show?
Like @St0neHand5 said, Korea and Japan has had a rivalry forever. I don't know how far back it goes but Korea has had periods of military conflict and peaceful trade and cultural exchange with Japan for centuries at least. Many Koreans like to claim Japan owes it's civilization thanks to Korea. I think the the Japanese occupation in the early 20th century is what really made our relationship what it is now. Korea has a collective inferiority complex to Japan (and to some extent China, the US, and the West as a whole). Japan modernized much earlier, Japan conquered Korea and tried to snuff out the culture, for decades after WWII Japan was a major economic power while Korea lived in poverty, the Japan has had a much more prominent role in the international community, westerners didn't know where Korea was but everybody knew about Japan, etc. Korea is insecure. So anytime Korea does anything better than Japan, they love to boast about it.
2. I don't think it's cool. It was shitty. And no the military does not make everybody good with guns, especially one that halfasses things like the ROK military does. Most ROK soldiers are scrawny conscripts ripped from a lifetime of studying and playing starcraft. 5 weeks of basic and 2 years of shoveling snow/picking up leaves (which was most of the time in my service) doesn't automatically turn them into disciplined killers.
3. No idea what that is as I don't watch TV.
How do Koreans view the Japanese
How do Koreans view the Chinese
How do Koreans view: Thais,Vietnamese,Cambodians,Malays,Filipinos.
Japanese. A mixture of hatred/jealously/admiration. People are still mad at the oppressive Japanese occupation and jealous that Japan is a better country now in many ways.
Chinese. Koreans love to look down on the Chinese. I think the hatred is unique in that Koreans feel an inferiority complex to Chinese civilization as a whole, but they view the average Chinese person as dirty, educated peasants. Even cool, level-headed Koreans with experience traveling abroad, seem to reserve a spot in their heart for hating the Chinese.
Koreans still suffer from the inferiority complex of once having been a dirty shit hole of country, and they love that there are other people they can look down on.
I would love to bang Japanese women.Korean men bang Japanese women LOL