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Is the Liberation Day logic of the New Right, who argue that pro-Japanese treason is justified, legitimate? Is it not their own logic, but a rhetoric of capital? How pathetic.
It is necessary to view history objectively. However, the problem is that our country is losing its objectivity, trapped too deeply in partisan logic or nationalistic consciousness. Rather than arguing that our people have been superior from the past, our priority should be to reflect on our history and strive to become a superior people in the future. We make a mistake by जबरदस्ती (forcibly) approaching the issue with the logic that because the past was superior, we will be superior in the
Among the ideologies introduced into our society during the Japanese colonial period, the most significant were arguably capitalism and socialism. This flow of thought brought about the division of our homeland—which failed to achieve independence through its own strength after liberation—and created a situation where the division became entrenched as the South and North held differing ideologies. This book examines where this tragedy originated, why we solidified such ideological conflicts,
Song Geon-ho et al.: Understanding the History of the Pre- and Post-Liberation Period 1
Questions such as ‘how the forms of pro-Japanese collaboration at the end of the Japanese colonial era affected subsequent society, under what circumstances our nation was divided before we could fully enjoy the joy of liberation, and how the one-man rule of North Korea and the reign of terror in South Korea differ in essence amidst movements of defection to the North and South that led to the annihilation of each other’s lives and cultures’ are too close to our current reality to be dismissed as issues of half a century ago. *Understanding the History of the Pre- and Post-Liberation Period* was planned with the purpose of realistically diagnosing the trends in various sectors of society—politics, economy, and culture—during the pre- and post-liberation period, ranging from pro-Japanese figures to the Special Committee for Investigating Anti-National Activities, the US military government, and the division of the nation; at the same time, it aims to accurately elucidate the realistic context of today’s history and society and how it will unfold in the future. Reading this book will be an important step in shedding light on the darkness leading up to the division and the Yushin regime following liberation, a period that politics and the media have failed to uncover.
Korean title: 해방전후사의 인식 1
Korean author: 송건호 외
Korean publisher: 한길사
ISBN-13: 9788935655427
Reviews
Is the Liberation Day logic of the New Right, who argue that pro-Japanese treason is justified, legitimate? Is it not their own logic, but a rhetoric of capital? How pathetic.
It is necessary to view history objectively. However, the problem is that our country is losing its objectivity, trapped too deeply in partisan logic or nationalistic consciousness. Rather than arguing that our people have been superior from the past, our priority should be to reflect on our history and strive to become a superior people in the future. We make a mistake by जबरदस्ती (forcibly) approaching the issue with the logic that because the past was superior, we will be superior in the
Among the ideologies introduced into our society during the Japanese colonial period, the most significant were arguably capitalism and socialism. This flow of thought brought about the division of our homeland—which failed to achieve independence through its own strength after liberation—and created a situation where the division became entrenched as the South and North held differing ideologies. This book examines where this tragedy originated, why we solidified such ideological conflicts,
