The 32nd Tokyo Olympics, which was scheduled to be held in 2020, was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and this may be the only time the Olympic Games have been postponed.
Now, with the Olympic Games about to open, the delegations from all countries participating in the Olympic Games have also arrived in Japan one after another and stayed in the Olympic Village prepared by Japan.
However, a dispute that occurred in the Olympic Village attracted the attention of many people. The South Korean delegation living in the Olympic Village hung an "anti-Japanese banner" outside the dormitory, along with many South Korean flags.
As soon as this matter came out, the most fierce reaction was the Japanese, because the Original Olympic Games had many twists and turns because of the epidemic, and many of Japan's preparations in the past few years were in vain, and as a result, the South Koreans engaged in such a file.
Some Japanese right-wingers even took the "rising sun flag" of the Japanese army during World War II and ran to the vicinity to "protest", so a public opinion war soon broke out between the two countries.
In the spit-and-water confrontation, there are nothing more than three voices against South Korea's approach, one is opposition, the other is support, and the third is to play fifty boards each.
Voices opposed to South Korea and playing South Korea's "Fifty Big Boards" believe that this is the Olympic Games with peace and friendship as the main theme, and South Korea has done something out of the ordinary.
Those who support South Korea and play Japan's fifty boards believe that Japan is at fault first, and South Korea's approach is reassuring. So how should we view the Koreans?
On the anti-Japanese banner hung by the Koreans, it was written "The support and support of the subjects and 50 million people", the banner was written in Korean, white characters on a red background, divided into several pieces hanging on the upper floor, plus the Korean flag next to it, the limelight overwhelmed several promotional banners for the Tokyo Olympic Games next to it, which was very conspicuous in the simple Olympic Village.
Needless to say, it was a demonstration by South Korean athletes to the Japanese. The 50 million people mentioned in the banner text are just about the total population of South Korea now, which is not a big deal at first glance.
Those who don't know may think that this is a South Korean athlete showing confidence in winning a medal, but in fact, the tone of its imitation is what a famous anti-Japanese general in Korean history said: The subject still has 12 ships.
The man who uttered this sentence was named Lee Shun-chen, a hero of the anti-Japanese resistance in the history of Korea, or more precisely, in the history of the Korean Peninsula.
For us ordinary Chinese, if we have read the book "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty" or the Korean movie "The Battle of Mingliang", we should all know this name.
Of course, it doesn't matter if you haven't read these contents, we will briefly introduce Lee Shun-chan as a person, and why Koreans borrow his words to intimidate the Japanese.
Li Shunchen became a famous anti-Japanese general because of a war between China, Korea and Japan. From 1592 to 1598, because of the Japanese invasion of Korea, China sent troops to aid Korea, and a far-reaching regional war broke out between the two sides.
Because the year 1592, when the war began, was the year of the Kanji Chronicle, Japan was also called the "Uighur Kingdom", so Korea and later Korea called it the "Nongchen Patriotic War" or "Nongchen Rebellion".
China was during the Ming Dynasty's Wanli Dynasty, so some people in China called it "Wanli Aid Korea". Even those who do not understand this history can surely guess which side is the most effective unit.
But that doesn't mean north Korea doesn't have anyone who can fight, because Lee Shun-chan is a tough north Korean. When war broke out in 1592, Lee Soon-chen was 46 years old and was in charge of commanding the Korean navy.
This man was highly skilled in naval warfare, defeating the mighty Japanese Navy many times. At the Battle of Xianshan Island in 1592, Li Shunchen used inferior troops to sink 47 Japanese ships at the cost of one unsinked ship on his side. Since then, the name Li Shunchen has made the Japanese Navy smell different.
However, those who could fight could not resist the slander and suspicion of their own people, and in the following years, Li Shunchen was imprisoned for a time, until the return of the Japanese army in 1597, and he was released from prison.
By this time, however, the North Korean navy had been tossed out, leaving Only 12 ships for Lee Soon-chen. But it is these 12 ships that have achieved a miracle in the history of world naval warfare.
In October 1597, at the Naungyang Strait at the southwestern tip of the Korean Peninsula, Li Shunchen successfully repelled the Japanese attack with more than 300 ships with 12 ships. Known as the Battle of Mingliang, the battle was one of the points of knowledge that must be mastered in Korean history textbooks, and was later made into a movie by Koreans.
The anti-Japanese banners hung by Koreans in japan's Olympic Village today are actually imitating Li Shunchen's anti-Japanese determination before the Battle of Mingliang, but 12 boats have been replaced by 50 million Koreans.
In 1598, a year after the Battle of Mingliang, Li Shunchen was martyred in the final decisive battle. Over the centuries that followed, Mr. Lee's reputation on the Korean Peninsula grew, eventually becoming a symbol of the national spirit.
On Gwanghwamun Square in seoul, the capital of today, South Korea, stands a statue of Lee Shun-sun. North Korea also has the General Lee Shun-chan Medal in recognition of those who have contributed to the cause of the Navy.
The Sino-Japanese War, which took place in the late 16th century, was re-enacted in the late 19th century, only this time the outcome of the war changed, with Japan winning the war and annexing the Korean Peninsula.
In the next half century, Japan launched many wars of aggression for foreign expansion, and the Korean Peninsula also had to contribute.
Although some people willingly acted as such tools, because there were many such examples in the Japanese army invading China, Japan's colonial rule here eventually brought great disasters to the Korean Peninsula, involving more than 2 million people.
Many men served as cannon fodder for the Japanese army, many women became comfort women of the Japanese army, and Japan's denial and avoidance of historical issues made South Korea very dissatisfied with Japan.
Later, this historical problem was added to a series of disputes such as territory, and since then there has been a frequent fight between South Korea and Japan, and if it were not for the fact that the two countries had a common American father, I am afraid that they would have fought.
Next, we will briefly introduce the historical and territorial disputes between Korea and Japan.
First of all, the historical problem, the most acute of the historical problems between Korea and Japan, is the comfort women issue. We all know that the Japanese are notoriously repudiated for the things they have done.
Japan insists that no documents or evidence have been found to prove that the Japanese military and the Japanese government forced South Korean women to serve as comfort women, and that every time South Korea heard Japan say so, it would greet three generations of Japanese ancestors.
But in 2015, under pressure from the United States, South Korea reached an agreement with Japan, which acknowledged its responsibility, and then Japan allocated 1 billion yen to the foundation established in South Korea to compensate the victims.
However, South Korea has been hoping that Japan will make a formal apology in writing or other forms, which Japan has refused on the grounds that there is no evidence.
So around 2019, South Korea unilaterally overturned the agreement with Japan, and the dispute between the two sides over the comfort women issue resumed.
At a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in June 2021, South Korean delegates attacked Japan's practices as a re-inflicted attack on the victims, but Japan would only pretend to be deaf and dumb.
Then there is the territorial issue, which has long been at odds between South Korea and Japan over the ownership of Dokdo. The de facto control of the island is now in the hands of South Korea, but Japan has not given up on its contention for it, whether it is its own school textbooks or the Ministry of Defense's Defense White Paper, which Japan often swears its sovereignty.
Since 2005, Japan has written sovereignty over Dokdo into the Defense White Paper for 17 consecutive times. At present, Japan took the opportunity to host the Olympic Games and marked Dokdo as its own territory on the official website of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The IOC did not stop Japan's approach, and although South Korea protested, the IOC concluded that Japan had "no political intentions" and allowed Japan to do so.
But in fact, during the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea also wanted to mark Dokdo as its territory, but it was banned by the International Olympic Committee for reasons such as political neutrality and violation of the Olympic spirit.
Moreover, Japan also intends to use the Japanese rising sun flag during World War II, because the Olympic Committee also agrees with Japan's statement that the rising sun flag has no political intentions. This may also be one of the reasons why South Korean athletes hang up the national flag and hang anti-Japanese slogans in the Tokyo Olympic Village.
After the South Koreans did this, some Japanese people ran nearby with rising sun flags to express "protest", which made the Japanese statement that there was no "political intention" look very ridiculous. Now the IOC has managed to quell the incident by letting the South Koreans take away the flag, removing the slogan, and dispersing the Japanese who hold the rising sun flag.
(Note: IOC President Thomas Bach)
Finally, let's take a look at how South Korea should look at it.
Article 50 of the existing Olympic Charter stipulates that the Olympic Games cannot be used as a tool for expressing political demands.
Therefore, if we look at it from this point of view alone, the Koreans are inappropriate, even if there are historical problems and territorial problems between South Korea and Japan, they should not be quarreled at the Olympic Games.
But in fact, the Japanese have brought politics into the Olympic Games, marking the ownership of Dokdo without authorization, and allowing the rising sun flag to enter the venue, all of which are manifestations of political intentions, and the International Olympic Committee has not restricted Japan's approach.
If you think so, the South Koreans' approach can be seen as a kind of counterattack against Japan and the International Olympic Committee, which is understandable.
Although Koreans have also disgusted China before (
Note: During the 2007 Asian Winter Games in Changchun, several South Korean athletes held up signs declaring that China's Changbai Mountain was South Korea's
But as far as the facts are concerned, there is no harm in Korea's disgusting refusal to face up to history.
However, this kind of behavior is still not worth advocating after all, because after the end of this year's Tokyo Summer Olympics, followed by the 2022 Winter Olympics held in our country, and the International Olympic Committee has said that it will relax the restrictions on the expression of political demands, so once this mouth is released, I don't know what demons and ghosts will jump out.
Of course, if this is the case, everyone will not play in the Future Olympic Games. Therefore, everyone should still be cautious about eating melons and not take sides casually.
Content Source:
Lü Chunyan, "The Appearance, Root Causes and Impact of the Korea-Japan Dispute after Moon Jae-in Came to Power", Peace and Development, No. 5, 2019
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