Yet More Korean Racism

This time in Hyomilryu (혐일류), Korea's answer to the popular Kenkanryu (嫌韓流) manga, kindly translated by Matt of Occidentalism. I think the following page alone tells you a tremendous amount about the Korean psyche.

Click for full size image.Imagine that, stooping to sleeping with black men! The horror!!! Quite an achievement to pack Japanophobia, misogyny, hypocritical sexual puritanism and good ol' anti-black racism into a single frame of a comic, isn't it, and this in an attempted rebuttal of supposed Japanese prejudice. And to think Koreans wonder why foreigners seem to have a "pro-Japanese" slant ...

I highly recommend visiting Occidentalism and seeing the full set of images on there for yourself. Pace Norimitsu Onishi, If Kenkanryu supposedly says anything disturbing about Japan, Korea's answer to it tells you what most knowledgeable people already thoroughly understand: that for all of Korea's newfound economic success, societal attitudes in the country seem to be stuck emulating those of 1930s Germany.

Comments

[Steve Edwards]

I just love their depiction of the terrified African man fleeing the sex-crazed Japanese mob. Must happen all the time! Makes you wonder who they are trying harder to insult...

[Won Joon Choe]

http://www.occidentalism.org/?p=200#comments

The discussion above is quite something else.