Word: jungly
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...certainly nothing more than history to 23-year-old Lee Sun Jung, as she shops for a Hello Kitty hair curler. "Appealing to nationalism to buy Korean goods is over now," she says. "We get upset because of the history, but when we look at creative designs from Hello Kitty we buy them...
...claims. Mainstream politicians insist that Nanjing Massacre atrocities have been exaggerated. They still justify Japan's World War II aggression as an effort to liberate Asia from European colonization or, in the case of Korea, to aid the country's modernization. "None of this was for Korea," scoffs Lee Jung Hoon, an expert on modern Japan-Korea relations at Seoul's Yonsei University. "Korea was simply a stepping stone for future advancement into Manchuria and China...
...Jung Woo Suk likes nothing better than to sit down with some cool Japanese animation or a new Japanese-made video game. Jung, who graduated from a top university in Seoul last year, now runs a website for a computer magazine. But whenever he has spare time, he sits down with his PlayStation or his computer and plays video games -- Dragonquest 7, Black Matrix Cross and Super Robot War are among his favorites. When he feels like watching some animation, one of his top choices is a series by a Japanese team called Gonzo. It was shown on television...
...Japanese animation has it all, according to Jung. The drawings are good, the production values are high, and the story lines are well structured. "They're really fun to watch and there are so many different topics," he says. Jung watches every bit of Japanese animation brought into Korea: he watches one or two animated cartoons a day, but sometimes he spends all night in front of the computer, watching clips downloaded from the Internet. His source of information on Japanese animation comes from a Korea-based on-line site where people go to swap tips and download clips...
...Jung's interest has raised his awareness of Japan. He even went there on a short trip in 1999 and was impressed -- it was clean and the people were kind, he says. But he didn't have his rose-colored glasses on. He is well aware of Japan's brutal colonization of the Korean peninsula, and knows that Japan's conservative leaders and opinion makers are unrepentant. That colors his image of Japan the country with some darker strokes. "They still have this fantasy about their militaristic past," says Jung. "They don't think they did anything wrong." But Jung...