What real-life Korean Japanese women did to survive [KBS Special] | KBS 160815

[@daisy_chill]

Shout out to pachinko drama series & novel for giving spotlight towards Korean-Japanese discrimination in Japan. Also, props to the KBS team for this amazing documentary.

[@ricezzz2665]

it's truly so heartbreaking to think about what minorities have had to go through until just a few years ago... once i saw an old japanese movie by a famous director (i cant remember who it was but probably nagisa oshima) about a zainichi korean being sentenced to the death penalty over a crime he didn't commit after a lifetime of poverty and discrimination. it's sad to think that even to this day, zainichi koreans are considered foreigners in their birth land, and foreigners in korea as well.

[@Sasha-xv6do]

It's more heartbreaking how many millions of people suffer due to Multiculturalism

[@dylanthekoreanteacher]

Thanks for another great video! 좋은 영상 감사합니다

[@VariantAEC]

Translation for two languages? Japanese to Korean and then to English for us English speaking folks. Thanks for the latter, I'm still not fluent in Korean. It's funny that it took me until the 9-minute mark to look at the captions and finally understand most if not all of these Koreans are fluent in Japanese. I should also learn Japanese.

[@irmar]

So after the war, why didn't the Korean government help these families return to Korea if they wanted to? Did they want to or were they used to Japan by now? I hoped that someone would talk about this in the video, but no.

[@irmar]

@@deepestsleeep This is useful information. It would be nice if the video addressed this side of the question as well.

[@kaitai5900]

Because, life was so much better in Japan all those years. Economically, socially, and educationally. After a time, there was no going back, because they themselves had become culturally not Korean and also not Japanese. Something in between. Simple as that, otherwise they would have returned.

[@deepestsleeep]

Sorry, I erased my comment that I left before. After WW2, Korea was split in half. North was under the Soviet's control, and South Korea was protected by the US. When the US military pulled out of Korea, there was a Korean war in 1950. So they weren't going to come home to war. Also, during the first 20 years after the Korean war, North Korea was more industrialized and seemingly wealthier than South Korea. (Honeymoon period for Socialism) In the 70s, Japan and North Korea collaborated in mass migration of Zainichi Koreans back to North Korea. Those who were shipped to North Korea never made it out until this day. Also, North Korea sponsored Zainichi Koreans financially back then. Zainichi Koreans also acquired either North Korean or South Korean citizenship because the Japanese government stripped them of their Japanese citizenship after WW2. In the 60s,there was mass land reform in Korea, and Zainichis had no place to go in Korea, especially with North Korea being the way it has been.

[@sandwitchchan1999]

Because there was no Korean government after WW2 💀

[@browncity]

Two thirds of the over 2million Koreans living in Japan did return to Korea. My grandmother was born and raised in Japan as an ethnic Korean with her parents and grandparents and they were one of the ones who did return. But they regretted it as they had a much better life in Japan. Koreans had been living in Japan for generations so it's not easy to go back to Korea, a poverty-stricken country and start a new life in a country you don't really know.

[@aylyi-huh9355]

더이상 싸우지 말고 고향으로 돌아와서 편히 쉬세요

[@t.l.ciottoli4319]

Injustice and 'discrimination' are two very different things and various forms of 'discrimination' are not unjust, but rather they are just normal consequences of living as a foreigner in another nation. It's important to distinguish between these things. With lower birth rates in all nations around the world, no person is forced to suffer the natural consequences of life in another country, they can choose to go back to their home nations. Many don't, but why stay and then complain? Do you have a right to enter ANY nation on the planet and be treated like a king or queen?

[@deepestsleeep]

But most of them were brought into Japan as laborers in the past, when Japan annexed Korea. They were once Japanese citizens at least on paper. So they shouldn't really be considered "foreigners." They were Japanese citizens until the Japanese government stripped them of Japanese citizenship and made them permanent foreign residents. They had no places to be after WW2, because Korea was going through war. They wanted to adopt to Japan, but the Japanese government didn't give them citizenship until recently. Even now, they have to apply for Japanese citizenship at age 20. It was Japan that tried to make all Koreans Japanese. It was Japan that brought majority of them for labor. They executed Koreans who used Korean names and spoke Korean. It was the Koreans who protested against the Japanese at the time. The discrimination just hasn't stopped in Japan, that's all.

[@t.l.ciottoli4319]

@@deepestsleeep how is it unjust if they are not given Japanese citizenship while being Korean? Will Korea not accept them back? Korea is losing people, they should have no problem w that

[@Sanismom]

Oh wow they should run for their life and not be in the streets of the city for the next few days to get their own way with the police force in their own hands to protect them from this horrible situation in this world they should go to jail for this❤

[@kitlitmitt]

😢❤