[color=white][b][u]Letters to Kyu the Hwarang Lion: #4[/u][/b][/color] --------- Translations provided by the Avenger, as both letters were written in Korean. ----------- [i]Dear Kyu, The world sees our country as being full of intellectuals and technology. But like everywhere else, we have our dumbest moments. While many of us are more concerned about building our cities and towns upwards to accommodate more of our people and their families, before their businesses, others are concerned about our past. The thing with the past is that they cannot be changed or argued over. I like to describe myself as generally conservative who is pacifist and pro-family; yet, ultranationalists are among the people I dislike the most. From personal experience, Korean ultranationalists tend to be from older generations in the modern period. I don't know what's their deal with our national past, but they need to understand that the past cannot be changed. We had a case where our ultranationalists filed a court case claiming that the Japanese island of Tsushima was originally Korean territory as Daemado, when in reality it was the result of the Americans handing us temporary control of that island right after World War Two ended. The judge of that case decided to refer to the Samguk Sagi, which was published in 1145, to rule against the ultranationalists because according to the Samguk Sagi, Tsushima has always been Japanese territory from the beginning. Yes, a Korean judge had to use an ancient document from nine centuries ago to rule against these idiots. Oh, wait! The stupidity doesn't end there! In 2012, a group of Korean thieves smuggled a centuries-old Buddha statue from a Japanese temple into our country claiming that Japanese pirates stole the statue from us back in the 14th century and that the statue was made in Korea. But what was happening back then in Japan was a civil war against Emperor Go-Daigo, where Takauji Ashikaga led a successful coup against the emperor to establish himself as shogun of that country. Why the Japanese would suddenly make their way into our country to steal a Buddha statue for themselves in the middle of their civil war puzzles me. Who are they going to sell the stolen Buddha statue to when everybody was fighting against each other back then? Makes no sense, right? So the judge of the Buddha statue case asked the Korean thieves to prove that the statue was stolen back then and the Japanese to prove that the statue is legally theirs. Much to nobody's surprise, the Japanese claimants provided substantial evidence that the statue was legally obtained through a trade with Korea back in the 14th century with preserved ancient documentation and receipt of the trade. Wow... Their museum staff really do a good job preserving every bit of their past, including such ancient paperwork. Thus the judge ruled in favor of the Japanese where we had to legally return the statue back to them in their proper temple. Yeah... This is the dumb side we have to deal with in Korea. Crazy ultranationalists trying to rewrite history. No wonder why the Americans and United Nations told us that when it comes to history and cultural origins, we are on our own on that. Kimchi is a culinary staple of Korea, but has origins in China where they invented pickled cabbage preserved in jars. Yet the ultranationalists try to rewrite this by claiming that kimchi has been longer than China has been around, even though the reality is that China has been around way longer than we have. Rewriting history is a crime against humanity, and it makes us look bad to the world. The Japanese are honest in claiming that a good chunk of their culture have originated in China. But us, the ultranationalists don't want us to accept the obvious fact that Korea today is mostly a fusion of Chinese and Japanese culture. So how do you keep your cool when it comes to the acts of these crazy Korean ultranationalists? Sung Woo Ham, human being, age 23 Ulsan, Korea[/i] ----------- Kyu's reply: [color=white][i]Dear Sung: I know a thing or two about these ultranationalists because I had to deal with one myself. A psychopath lion who calls himself the Joeson One went around impersonating me when we had those 20 spoiled brats complain about certain Vietnamese food, calling it "peasant food," and angering my Vietnamese counterpart and his trusted associate (Chuong Cho Soi) in the process. The worst lie he told them was getting them to believe they had a lifetime of community service coming their way because the government had given me full authority to give them such a sentence. Well, they didn't, and when the real me came back, it was very confusing to discover why SuperCat was suddenly dinging fines on my back. (He reversed this when he discovered there was a copycat lion going around.) The same copycat kept claiming the entire world is Korean in origin. It's not. He even said Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was Korean. He wasn't. All lies. All things to rile me up and get me angry. But I didn't. I went ahead and battled him in a duel until I beat him and got him to surrender, but I didn't snap. Instead, I kept calm and made sure I was still calm when talking to him, and he ultimately confessed he wanted the brats to wish my Swedish counterpart would kill them all off instead of letting them live. Calamitous! This idiot is putting false words in my mouth! He's only another example of how our people, as you yourself have rightly pointed out, are so ultranationalist, there is nothing but hate for everybody else in this world. I've even heard people claim that the United States of America, the absolute best nation in the world, is owned by Korea. No, it isn't! Nobody owns the United States of America in that regard! How do I deal with it, though? Simple. I just ignore it and let them make idiots of themselves, because when they die, they will answer to the highest authority for everything they did. Trust me; you do not want to imagine what that is going to look like. So just let it happen and let them be judged by the only One worthy of doing any judging, and notice I capitalized the word "One." Hope that helps; if not, let me know where I went wrong. But on the inside, I am as furious as you are (if that's possible) about these ultranationalists screwing up everyting. On the outside, I cannot show it, or else the Cat of Steel will be all over me like studs on a LEGO(tm) brick. Yours truly, Kyu Seomun, a.k.a. Kyu the Hwarang Lion[/i][/color]