The following is a continuation of the story of Joseon, where the Yangban, who made up only 10% of the population, treated the remaining 90% of their people like slaves and exploited them.
I, Masayuki Takayama, Hiroshi Furuta, and others have knowledge rooted in the truth.
It is the first truth that many Japanese people and fools worldwide who have taken China and Korea's propaganda seriously know.
My close friends and astute readers know that Le Clézio was the other me in this world for me.
I had no idea that Le Clézio had been taken in by the Koreans at the very end of his life and praised them for it.
What disdain I felt.
Loyal soldiers and training for them were necessary if the country was to be protected from outside aggression.
But the enslaved people of Joseon who were forced to serve were nothing more than a bunch of crows who cursed their masters and the king.
They had the muscle to carry a backpack but not the muscle to fight.
Besides, there was no concept of "what the nation is.
Therefore, whenever there was a foreign invasion such as the Imjin War (Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598)) or the Heji War (Qing invasion of Joseon), it was not unusual for Joseon soldiers to join the enemy forces.
Meanwhile, what was going on in the royal palace of Joseon in Hanyang?
Politics, intrigues, conspiracies, bloodshed, bloody conflicts, conspiracies, conflicts among the four factions (the old, the young, the southern, and the northern), regent politics (regent politics performed by the most senior member of the royal family on behalf of the ), exile, dissection of corpses (a punishment in which cut off the corpse by breaking open the coffin and removing the head when a serious crime was discovered after death) Juri punishment (punishment of tying both legs and twisting with a stick in between), caning, cane, searing iron torture, etc.,
In a word, the royal palace was dominated by lies, intrigue, and barbarism.
While Joseon was aging as a social system consisting of a few Yangban and many Nobi, the King and the Yangban were reveling in the material exploitation and sexual exploitation of the 90% of the enslaved people, not to mention the Nobi.
It was only a matter of time before the great powers took over Joseon, as the world was now approaching an era of the weak are victims of the strong, but the king and Yangban were overwhelmed by such ridiculous things.
Japan did not destroy Joseon.
It destroyed itself.
It was left behind by the trends of the times and perished while a handful of royalty and Yangban were intoxicated with their own people's blood.
As the late Han Dynasty (the period from the end of the Joseon Dynasty to the Korean Empire) lamented, 90% of the enslaved people perished because they had no motivation to fight for the royalty and Yangban who exploited them.
They perished because they did not try to make firearms and develop science together with the people.
How much did Joseon develop during the 500 years of Joseon?
There were no proper roads in Hanyang, the capital of Joseon, at the end of Joseon.
The roads twisted and turned, and straw-roofed grass huts lined the streets like a swarm of snails.
The streets were overflowing with manure produced by people and livestock, and Yangban rode his palanquin through the foul-smelling streets.
The excrement from people and livestock had entered the wells, and the water from the wells stank.
All kinds of contagious diseases were raging, but there were no doctors and no proper medicines.
If someone had a property that they wanted, they would seize it with or without question and use torture such as Juri's punishment to take it away forcibly.
There were no human rights from the beginning.
It is the work of 27 Korean kings who ruled Korea for 500 years and was Korea's entire property given to Japan's governor-general.
What Japan took from Joseon in 1910 was 90% superstitious and ignorant people, 10% greedy, lying, and conspiracy-minded Yangban, and the land covered with filth and contagious diseases.
Japan seized Joseon and transformed Hanyang into a Tokyo-like city in just ten years.
To make the Koreans believe in the Japanese's sincerity, they invested the budget that should have been spent on the Japanese mainland into Chosun to build modern buildings, factories, dams, and hydroelectric power plants magnificent than those on the mainland.
The kings who believed in the superstition that wide roads would attract the feminine tribe lost the streets that should have been there, but the Japanese built wide roads such as Jong-ro, Eul-si-ro Taepyeong-ro in Hanyang.
If the Joseon Dynasty had continued as it was, the straw-roofed grass houses would not have become two-story buildings even after ten million years.
However, Japan built beautiful five- and six-story buildings all over Joseon in less than ten years.
Had it not been for Japan's forced liberalization, and had the Joseon dynasty still been in existence, would Korea have developed as much as it has in the 109 years since 1910?
I doubt it very much.
But Japan was different.
It saved Joseon from an incompetent dictatorship.
They freed the people of Nobi who had been enslaved by Yangban.
They opened up the country through the power of science and education.
Park Chung-hee added another 18 years of achievements on top of that foundation stone.
That's what today's Korea is.
If the descendants of King Junjong, the last king of Joseon, had been king for 109 years, Korea would still not have even a two-story house.
The 123-story Lotte World Tower would have been a dream come true.
This article continues.
