I found an interesting writing from Facebook.

I often times refer to the postings written by Mr. Kent Gilbert, the U.S attorney general, who spent more than 30 years in Japan.

On August 22nd, he wrote a very interesting thing in his Facebook that resembled to what I've been explaining here.

He said that he was surprised by how different Japanese and Korean way of thinking were despite the fact that those two countries have been adjacent to each other.

Also He mentioned " the normal Japanese assumption that people are fundamentally good". That's what I been calling here "the view of good (idiot)". He is referring to "the view of good" and saying that it's been the source of problem between Japan and South Korea.

I copied and pasted his writing below.

https://www.facebook.com/kent.gilbert.5/posts/881334791957382:0

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Apology to Korea Makes One a Self-Confessed Sinner

　On August 16th, I participated in Voice Live, a talk show held by PHP Kenkyusho on the topic of “Japanese-Korean Relations 70 Years after the End of the War.” It was set up with journalist Hajime Marutani, who is always teaching me new and interesting things, serving as moderator, while Sonfa Oh, a professor in the international department of Takushoku University, and I exchanged various opinions.

　Ms. Oh was born on Jeju Island in South Korea, and came to Japan as a foreign exchange student in 1983. At that time she had strong anti-Japanese feelings, but as she learned various facts, she came to have stronger feelings of empathy toward Japan. She said she was shocked when she realized that the anti-Japanese education she had received in Korea was false. After resolving the conflicts in her mind, she took out Japanese citizenship in 1988.

　I was surprised by many things she had to say, beginning with our discussion before the event even began. It was brought home to me how different the values and common understandings are between the neighboring countries of South Korea and Japan.

　I will leave the details of our discussion to the article which will appear in the October issue of “Voice” (which goes on sale September 10th), but to mention just one thing, the meaning and function of an “apology” are completely different in Korea.

　Japan has apologized to South Korea almost 60 times, but the other day a former comfort woman stated that “Japan has not apologized even once.” For Japanese, an “apology” is an action taken to calm the anger of the other party and repair wronged feelings. Thereafter both parties forget the unpleasant past and let bygones be bygones, and the matter is closed.

　On the hand, in Korea “apology” is not a matter of emotions. If one apologizes, he becomes a “sinner” who has admitted his guilt, and the person receiving the apology obtains the right to torment the sinner. An apology is the beginning of an unfair relationship.

　Moreover, Koreans do not let bygones be bygones. President Park Geun-hye gave a speech in which she said “The relative positions of a wrongdoer and a victim do not change even after 1,000 years.” That is the typical thinking of Koreans.

　No matter how many times it apologizes to Korea, the “repair of wronged feelings” intended by Japan is impossible to achieve. Rather, every time Korea receives an apology, it thinks again “We were able to put Japan in a subordinate position.” Such an apology should be impossible between two nations, but Korea, including its leaders, demands a Korean-style apology.

　Incidentally, in the U.S. “apology and restitution” are thought of as one set too, but the matter ends with the delivery of the apology and restitution.

　Under international law, problems related to the period of annexation of Korea to Japan were resolved by the Japan‐Republic of Korea Basic Relations Treaty concluded in 1965, but Korea keeps bringing up the same problems again and again. Japan is unfortunate to be entangled with Korea. Japanese politicians and diplomats bear deep responsibility for conducting foreign relations with Korea under the normal Japanese assumption that people are fundamentally good.

　All public servants involved in Korean diplomacy should carefully read Ms. Oh’s book.

https://www.facebook.com/kent.gilbert.5/posts/881334791957382:0

=Japan now and future (part-1)=

This time, I'm going to talk about what's happening in Japan and what's going to happen in future Japan.

The theme is vast issue. If I had to, I would have to write endlessly. So I will narrow it down to the issues that most of Japanese people can not think of.

I've been talking about "the view of good" and "the view of malicious" here in my blog. Without knowing those points of view, you never can see any truth of Japan and East Asia.

As I mentioned last time, the bill, that enables Japanese army to go oversea and fight, passed at the Japanese congress on July 15th.

The whole world that includes the U.S, EU, and South East Asian countries were welcoming the passed bill except two notorious countries China and South Korea.

The fact everybody is welcoming the bill is really confusing for China and South Korea. And it became an article at Chinese web news "Record China" questioning "Why there is a country supports the bill?".

http://military38.com/archives/45040874.html

China and South Korea have been thinking that their long time Anti-Japanese propaganda (brainwashing) has been effective enough to make the whole world deceived into believing their fabricated histories.

But the fact only China and South Korea are being isolated from the whole world is flabbergasting to them. They thought the whole world was with them and supporting the ugly Anti-Japanese hatred.

Well, looks like the whole world turned out to be not as malicious as China and South Korea after all. Hahahaha.

Anyway, the real problem is not over yet but has just begun. Like I said last time, people who are the most against the passed bill are South Korean people. Because they have been promoting the anti-Japanese hatred throughout the world. Therefore, they need to stick with the theory that Japanese people are the world most malicious people.

Accepting the fact Japanese people are the righteous and trustworthy good people is like for Korean people to stop raising the anti-Japanese hatred. That's is no good. That's out of question for Korean people. They can not live another day without the hatred. So the only choice they have is to hold on to projecting the malicious image of Japanese people and scream "Japanese people are evil! Don't trust them! We were the victims of Japanese army! Trust us!".

That only makes me laugh and say "Korean people didn't exist during and before WW2. You Korean were Japanese citizen and Japanese army. If you said Japanese army abducted Korean women, that only meant Korean men were abducting Korean women since Korean men and women were both Japanese citizen and Japanese army during WW2". Of course this kind of real history is not acceptable for Korean people. They just scream and keep denying it.

Okay. Here comes the question. "Why Korean people need to be that adamantly holding onto the anti-Japanese hatred with the fabricated history and lies one after another? What's the purpose for doing that?" There's always a reason when people do something extreme with insanity. Especially when the whole people and nation are doing it in harmony.

Think about it. Those Korean people screaming and crying are young enough to have never experienced WW2. The more time passes from WW2, the louder Korean people scream. Isn't that weird or even suspicious?

In order to explain that, you first have to know Korean people's peculiar national character. For better perspective, I will compare Japanese people with Korean.

There are many Japanese people (especially elderly) in Japan who insist that Japan needs to make an apology again and again and again and again and again until the "self-claimed" victims of Japanese army are all satisfied.

What do you think? Do you agree with them? If you do, then you have "the view of good".

In the view of good, all people on the planet of earth are supposed to be saints. Nobody makes a lie because people are all saints. And everybody is honest because people are all saints. Right?

In 2011, a huge tsunami hit northern part of Japan and wiped out everything in its way. People lost everything including a driver license and ID card. So there was nothing to identify themselves. That's when Japanese banks changed their policy and offered them to withdraw up to $1,000 if anyone who came up to the bank and claimed that he or she had money in their bank account. No identity was required. All people had to do was to be honest.

Isn't that amazing? If the same thing were done in South Korea, everyone would make a lie and steal the money. But in Japan, the society is based on "the view of good" so that everybody is supposed to be as honest as saints. Crazy? Mr.Kent Gilbert, the U.S attorney general, explained this true story in his video before in awe.

=Actual video spoken in Japanese language by Mr. Kent Gilbert=

From 5:50 he starts explaining the unusual Japanese way of thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MYzhm-NNq4

What do you think? Sounds like Japanese people are all idiots, right? Hahaha. That's why I call "the view of good" as "the view of idiot". But you know? I found a lot of American people who had the view of idiot while I was living in the U.S.

Also when I post my comments on Yahoo news in English, I run into a lot of people who have the view of good.

Those who think that Japan should apologize to South Korea are the ones who have the view of idiot. Are you one of those?

I understand those, regardless Japanese or American, who have the view of good are ignorant. They look at the world from the view of good. That's why all judgements they make, end up total misjudgements.

I explain this to Japanese people all the time. And here I'm explaining this to people who can understand English. I'm sure if majority of Japanese people can't understand it, neither can you.

Here's example of Korean style. Last November before X'mas season, there was a news from Korean Daily News about the incident that described pretty well about South Korean people.

This article was written for domestic purpose. But web news "Forcus Asia" translated it into Japanese so we Japanese people know the news. Hahaha

The title is "The whole world vendors are alerted to malicious South Korean customers".

According to the article, a lot of Korean people were committing a fraud on the internet shopping. The methods were available on Korean internet so Korean people were learning how to pull off the fraud.

One of the many victims was the world famous cosmetic brand from London called "Lush". Korean say, "You buy a Lush product sold in London on the internet and select the untrackable shipping method. Then when you receive the product, you make a claim to Lush (What's going on!? I never received it!) Lush will make a deep apology and send you another product. That's how you can get two expensive products for only one price!"

Korean people were all happy. Hundreds and thousands of Korean have been committing the shopping fraud all over the world. According to Korean Daily News, Lush changed the web system only for South Korean customers that gave no choice but selected only trackable shipping method. Lush did this only to South Korean people. Hahaha.

It was only last November when Korean Daily News gave a warning to Korean people that all Korean people were being watched out by whole vendors all over the world. It wasn't anything like some Korean were arrested for doing that and became a news. But because there was no law or method to prevent South Korean from committing a fraud, Korean news just wanted to give the warning to all Korean people in hopes of them giving up on committing the fraud. But I am sure Korean are still doing it. They just don't stop it until they get caught by police. Which may less likely happen though since they are committing the fraud oversea thru the internet. The victims will not travel all the way to South Korea and report the crime in Korean language. So if you are running a web shop, the only way to protect yourself is to know the difference between you and Korean and prepare for it before you'll become the next victim.

Cheating and making a lie are Korean culture and DNA.

Japanese people are enough to be the victims by Korean fraud (Sexual slavery and all).

http://www.focus-asia.com/socioeconomy/photonews/402400/

I read a news similar to this one before. Abercrombie & Fitch is also limiting South Korean customers.

Another good example. Cheating on exams is a traditional Korean national character. Last year in October, SAT test, which is an exam to get enrolled in the elite universities in the U.S, was withheld in the entire Korea due to cheating claims. At the same time in China, 2,440 students were caught for cheating on a national test.

TOEIC test, which is a global organization to examine the level of your English skills, had one time withdrawn from South Korea due to the entire organization of TOEIC in Korea and examinees were caught cheating on the test. You know the organization of TOEIC in Korea is run by native Korean. So that the organization itself became a fraud and cheater. And examinees are also native South Korean. So they are also cheaters. It was natural this kind of cheating and fraud could occur, if TOEIC let it run only by South Korean alone.

This is the reason why so many Korean and Chinese students you find at Harvard, Yale, and Pennsylvania university. Westerners are as gullible as Japanese people due to possessing the view of good so they can't see the malicious intention Korean and Chinese people have.

You can search a lot of news about cheating Korean on the internet if you use the key words such as "Korean cheat on exam" and ""Korea cheat on exam"

"China catches 2,440 cheating students in high-tech scam"

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/china-exam-cheats/index.html

"Cheating claims delay SAT test scores in China, South Korea"

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/30/world/asia/china-south-korea-sat-test-cheating/index.html

I remember when I first traveled to Los Angeles California, I was surprised to find that there were a lot of Korean immigrants in L.A. There was even a huge Korean town in the middle of the city. I just couldn't understand it.

Then one day I had a chance to talk to a group of Japanese American. I asked them "Why there are so much Korean immigrants?". And one of them replied "They cheated". I said "What?". He said that all South Korean, young and old, made a lie claiming that they were all pastors(preachers). Back then immigration office was giving green cards to pastors(priests) easily. That's why all Korean made a lie and cheated on the U.S immigration office. He turned out to be an immigration officer.

"That's how they gained the number of Korean immigrants. Not to mention the fake marriage (marriage fraud) to obtain the green card. But now immigration law has changed. And it's no longer easy to get a green card even if you are a preacher or committing a marriage fraud. Thanks to South Korean immigrants" he said.

So you see. Even from my experience, South Korean national character is apparent. And a consistency is there.

All the examples prove a peculiar Korean character that is everybody all together tend to commit a fraud and cheating without feeling a bid of guilty. No shame but just pure maliciousness.

That's why I always tell Japanese and other people that you may not look at Korean and Chinese from your own common sense which is "the view of good".

Please don't assume South Korean and Chinese are saints who never make a lie. Depending on the country, common sense becomes 100% different from yours. There are countries where there are absolutely no sense of honesty and thoughtfulness in its culture at all, like South Korea.

Can you start looking at Korean testimonies of holocaust and sexual slavery from a different point of view? Without the point of view that Korean and Chinese are all saints?

If I explained to you what would be the purpose for Korean to commit the sexual slavery fraud, you might finally be able to understand it.

Continues to the next.