Reflection

While doing this work I did learn a lot as I never even actually heard of what happened during the time period of Koreans under the Japanese rule, so for me what was actually a really big obstacle was how to start writing and how to start researching, especially the keywords to start researching but at the same time that was a fun part of the work as I got to learn various different things that I did not know about before. I was actually really surprised on how Japan, a country that I like very much, or even any country can do somethings that were so harsh and even horrible to other countries only for their own interest while the other counrty did not even once do anything bad to them or even that involved them. If I had more time to do the task I would focus on finding even more precisely the lifestyle of people in that time and if possible even find someone to actually interview and see in person, the only problem would be that they were probably traumatized about the incident and I probably would not be able to understand their language unless there would be a translator with me. It relly started me thinking about learning more about humans in the past, and how they thought and acted towards other humans in their same era, and I do not really know why but it really inspired me learning more about the samurais.

Korean Under Japanese Rule

Time Traveler Diary

On this blog I will be talking about my trip as a time traveler or a tourist in korea that was under the Japanese rule, as far as I am concerned this happened during the time of 1910 to 1945.

Chapter One

At the fist part of my trip back in time I was sent to Korea in about 1910, in wich they were finally, we can say, conquered by the Japanese. So at first I went to a small village near Seoul and asked for orientation, as soon as I finished talking to that person I asked him what was his name, he then answered to me that he was called Kennen, and, I asked if he wanted to join me in my trip to undertake the past. We then bought a house together and we started living here. So, I finally asked him how was the current situation here in Korea, he then answered me that Japan has been lurking around Korea about 3 yaers ago, around 1907. Kennen also aclaimed that the Japanese forced their king to leave the throne in the favour of his son and then the son of the king was later married to a japanese women and that now the Japanese established prime ministers that were all at a high rank on the military, this really looks scary.

Chapter Two

 After living some years here I remembered that I read somewhere on the internet that the Koreans were not even able to publish their own newspaper until 1921, it must have been a very scary time especially for them. I was also suffering a bit, becuse mainly the Japanese thought that I was Korean because I was involved with Kennen an I was able to see how they were suffering a lot, but on todays newspaper there was something different than normal, it looks like some people were seeking to see independance, I was relieved that some people at least thought that there was no actual freedom in that current state, so I was also thinking on joining them, but then I remembered that if I help people here the future might change, and I do not want for that to happen, so I stayed just as an observer and me and Kennen discussed  for a while about the outcome of the war, if it was going to happen in first place and all possibilities of how the Japanese will react, Also as the rebellion happened here in Seoul, if it was actually safe to stay here in Seoul.

Chapter Three
Funyy thing was that after everything the reaction of the Japanese was not what me and Kennen expected, they actually got more relaxed and gave a bit more of freedom to us. Suddenly there was a beggining of growth of the Korean population and commercialization through out the country. But until I suddenly noticed that it was nothing to benefit us neither any Korean, but it was all to benefit the Japanese when they suddenly entered a war against the chinese, Korea then, in a blink of an eye, was a big mess while the Japanese started forcing Korean younglings to enter the war both girls and boys. Everything started to become a war zone, so unfortunately had to leave my friend Kennen and left him anot saying that I was going to investigate the Japanese, since then I never saw him again unfortunately. But I was finally able to infiltrate the Japanese I saw something really horrible, while the boys were going to war, the girls were used as sex slaves for the soldiers to relax them for war, it was really horrible the way the Japanese acted. So after some years of faking myself as a Japanese I saw they have surrendered and so both Japan and Korea became gigantic and even one of the biggest industries to fabricate all sorts of things as well as rice, that was the first thing that Japan were thinking on doing to Korea as soon as they colonized them, as Japan was running short on rice, but then all of that was lost and it became a war recrutation. Also something really horrible happened in 1939 that I forgot to mention was that almost 80 percent of the Koreans were forced to change their names into Japanese names, actually change their names, that is really horrible now is it not.

That is All, After that I came back to the present after spending two years trying to find my machine in the middle of this confusion, but I am finally back, ah I am so happy to be back home.

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