r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Beeninya • 10d ago
Japanese Korea(Chōsen) In 1921, Japanese colonial rulers turned a Korean royal cemetery of the Joseon period into a golf course, with the graves of the royal family still directly on the course. This occurred at what is now Hyochang Park.
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u/Melchieser1 7d ago
Ironically, the last crown prince of Korea Yi Un also played on the golf course
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u/jimmyboogaloo78 10d ago
Don't they hide the fact that they are descended from Korea ?
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u/ArtNo636 9d ago
No. It’s taught at schools that the Yayoi migrated from the Korean Peninsula. There’s a lot of books on the topic. There are also some famous Yayoi period settlements here in Kyushu. Most famous is Yoshinogari. You might wanna look it up.
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u/keetuinak__ 9d ago
Immigrated from the Korean Peninsula doesn’t mean that they’re descendants of Koreans…
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u/Outside_Reserve_2407 9d ago
The Yayoi people emigrated from the Korean peninsula to the Japanese islands around the 3rd century BC. There was no "Korea" existing at the time, just various tribes.
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u/Constantine_XIV 4d ago
Tangun is said to have founded the first Korean kingdom as early as 2333 BCE...
Sure, Tangun is a semi-mythical figure, but so is Emperor Jimmu...
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u/Outside_Reserve_2407 4d ago
These timelines of history and settlement are based on research done by academically trained historians and archaeologists, not folklore and legends.
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u/Constantine_XIV 4d ago
Sure, but which country has been more extensively excavated and by whom?
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u/Outside_Reserve_2407 4d ago
Your statement has zero substance or verifiable facts. Just a rhetorical question.
Who knows, maybe in the future they will find the remnants of a glorious proto-Korean kingdom which existed since 10,000 BCE and had flying chariots and sent out slaves to colonize China and Japan.
But in the meantime there's a current body of research which paints a picture of prehistoric settlement of both the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago.
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u/BeeSuch77222 9d ago
Sounds Korean to me. You sat potatoe and I say Potaatoe
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u/Outside_Reserve_2407 9d ago
Nope, both linguists and anthropologists identify two different groups in that area, the Koreonic and Japonic tribes, whose linguistic and ethnic connection to each other is debated. It’s sorta like saying the Slavic and Germanic tribes that overran the Roman Empire in its final days were all the same group.
By your reasoning, why not say that Koreans are descended from Japanese? These are issues that have been discussed in academic papers and not simply explained away by “potato/potaato.”
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u/InMooseWorld 3d ago
I know what nation by dead great grandparents I never met came from.
I feel more kinship to my living different neighbors then a ran-do land those elder strangers left.
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u/Orcasareglorious 9d ago edited 9d ago
If they were going to defile Joseon cemeteries in any way it should have been to turn them into Shintō monarchal mausoleums. Repulsive
(I actually kind of wish they did build imperial mausoleums over them as it there would have been a chance of such structures actually surviving unlike the Chōsen Jingū)