DOKDO ORIGINALLY BELONGED TO NO ONE, SO IT BELONGS TO EVERYONE
“In the past, when a Japanese person asked Choo Sunghoon on Twitter, “Mr. Akiyama, do you think Takeshima belongs to Japan or South Korea?” he replied, “That’s a difficult question. Personally, since it didn’t originally belong to anyone, I suppose it belongs to everyone.”
Netizens had mixed reactions to Choo Sunghoon’s remarks on Dokdo.”
ㅎㅎ…
1. Wow, just go to Japan and live there. Why come here to make money? That’s pretty mean
2. ?????? What is he saying?
3. If you can’t even say that Dokdo is Korean territory, then don’t speak Korean and just get lost
4. It’s true that he made some inappropriate remarks in the past, but he has since apologized, reflected on his actions, visited Dokdo, made a donation to Dokdo, and even said he regrets those remarks…
5. But given Choo Sunghoon’s situation, isn’t that the only option he had? He’s practically lived in Japan and has become a naturalized citizen, so he’s considered Japanese. The fact that he didn’t say it was Japan is already…
6. I bet that’s exactly how it isㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ His name may be Choo Sunghoon, but he’s practically Japanese. He’s only active in Korea because it’s profitable
7. But it was originally Korea’s
8. Since the post was so old, I wondered if there had been any follow-up, but it looks like he did correct it after all.
+ I’m Googling this to fact-check, but I can’t find the actual article about the donation to Dokdo. I only see one Tistory post and one Facebook post, but the article link in the Facebook post doesn’t work…
++After looking into it further, it seems there was a Facebook channel spreading fake news claiming that celebrity So-and-so donated nth billion won to Dokdo. It mentioned various celebrities one after another, and it looks like everyone shared it without fact-checking, it seems the comment above saw that fake news too
9. What year was that Tweet’s UI from?
10. Because he’s Japanese
