A Japanese Person Explains Why They Keep Pushing Koreans to Use Chinese Characters
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Translation + Context
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When Japanese people ask Koreans "You don't use Chinese characters?" it's because commoners couldn't access primary historical sources (many works from the Joseon Dynasty used Chinese characters).
There's a saying "A nation without history has no future." They're worried like, "Isn't it okay that you can't understand your own history (books written in Chinese characters)?"
1:30 AM. May 29, 2026. 824K views
South Korea is already cyberpunk lol the entire Annals of the Joseon Dynasty has been translated and is freely available online ;;; please don't compare us to Japan which lacks administrative capacity.
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My mind is blown lmaooo
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9 comments
Even if you know Chinese characters, reading old documents is a whole different beast lol
Nowadays Twitter translations are hilarious because right-wingers end up spouting nonsense π
It's all just superiority complex at its core, so they would've trash-talked us no matter what. If we had the Chinese character-based system and they had their own unique script, they'd flip the argument entirely lol
Imagining how hard they must've been pushing this argument makes me wheeze lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo π
Japan's superior writing system! Inferior humans can't even imitate such an advanced language! Sugoi Nippon!
this man really said 'let me explain 500 years of regional history in one video' and honestly respect the ambition
They just don't wanna be the only ones stuck using Chinese characters lmao π€£
Classical Chinese is actually useful if you learn it, but Chinese characters themselves aren't really necessary. Honestly just learning them as memory aids is enough.
wait this is actually fascinating, i had no idea there was this whole historical beef about writing systems lol
hold up, the title is kind of misleading right? this seems more nuanced than 'pushing' people to do anything π€
Wait what... Japan doesn't even use the original Chinese charactersβthey use a modernized version, so Japanese people can't read their own historical documents either π
as someone learning Japanese this explains SO much about why kanji exists, thanks for coming to my ted talk
okay but this is giving 'justifying colonialism with extra steps' energy and i'm not sure how to feel about it
lmaooo the comments section about to be UNHINGED, these topics never go well on the internet