Korean “Tsunami” Offices Outrage Japanese
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Nov 7, 2013 08:20 JST
- Tags: Architecture, Bizarre, Buildings, Earthquakes, History, Korea, Politics, Seoul
A new Seoul municipal office in the likeness of a “big wave” poised to crash down on the old Japanese colonial era city offices has provoked plenty of controversy in Japan, being condemned as “the ultimate expression of Korean tastelessness” and “a deliberate insult to tsunami victims.”
The former offices, now a public library, are a separate building but the juxtaposition of the two was apparently engineered for the purposes of political symbolism – although amongst Japanese there is a strong suspicion a rather more spiteful motive underpins the design:
“Sickening.”
“Koreans are geniuses when it comes to picking fights.”
“This country is nuts…”
“Quite funny really.”
“The design is pretty disturbing really, completely unsettling to see a building apparently poised to destroy another.”
“The design isn’t too bad, but the concept is utterly abominable.”
“How can anyone be expected to get along with a country which does stuff like this?”
“As expected of Korea.”
“The mass media can be relied on to completely ignore this stuff in favour of some awful Korean drama or music.”
“You’d think they’d get rid of the old one if they find it so offensive.”
“Reminds me of the ‘twin towers’ apartments they built…”
“Pretty sick…”
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All I see is a funny post-modern styled building. This is just people being politically oversensitive as usual, pretending of getting their butt hurt so they can harass other people for enjoyment.
Move along now, nothing to see here.
Chances are the building was planned and designed well before the tsunami of 2011. People need to chill the fuck out.
Most likely as the red tape to get something daring built in a major city can be a real pain and often takes longer then the actual construction process.
You are probably correct -- it was likely designed and approved well before the tsunami of 2011.
But the symbolism was still there in the design: a giant wave to destroy the old Japanese era office building. It's just that after the design was underway, the tsunami happened, which gave another level of reality to the originally intended message.
This just makes me feel like the Koreans are just excellent trolls. Tasteless would be protesting Japanese. This is just tasteful and hilarious to me.
Oh HouseLife, you're never concerned with anything horrible unless it bothers your tastes.
Go fuck yourself, HouseLife you Korean-loving traitor.
Like most, I just rarely am concerned with anything horrible unless it affects me directly. You know, much like every human in existence if they don't have their head up their ass pretending otherwise. Everything else is just analyzing from an emotional or logical place, and a sliding scale of gray for both.
I'll speak to the fact that someone actually took the time and effort to design this building that is quite complex architecturally, and place it in such a way that it ironically and artistically insults the Japanese in a way that is neither truly insulting nor directly insulting, with a palpable eye-rollingly ridiculous level of over-the-top attention to the concept that you can almost see the designer giving a shit-eating grin to a camera while standing in front of it. It's like it's so anti-Japanese that it's completely unrelated to being anti-Japanese, like it broke the meter and restarted it at the bottom and stopped at 'pro-Japanese.'
Point being, it doesn't matter if it's Korean. Your complaining about me being a 'Korean-loving traitor' is no different than someone elsewhere calling you a 'Jap-loving faggit.' It means nothing except that you have no perception of yourself or a world view worth listening to when you say things like that, no matter who you are or where you're from.
So basically that designer and his team is a Lord in Internet Trolling, and all his effort, regardless of the subtlety, has the same reaction as if that building were a Photoshopped-in tsunami as a commentary on /b/. So it's a simultaneous waste of time, effort, and money, and yet the fact that it even occurred and was allowed to occur is a gift to the comedy gods, and he deserves a slow clap with a smirk.
HouseWife said: "This just makes me feel like the Koreans are just excellent trolls. Tasteless would be protesting Japanese. This is just tasteful and hilarious to me."
Go back to doing the dishes, u make no sense.
Japs blame God for modeling tsunami after building... :o
I'm gonna go and call bullshit on that.
ya, it only takes a couple years to engineer get approval and build something that size. Not.
The Ikea here took 8 years from announcement to completion. Building/business certification and voting for approval takes several years before they can even start building.
the building is actually called "The Wave" in Korean.
I could imagine the builders just sitting back and going like, "U mad Japan?"
And what about those twin tower apartments they built? You okay with those?
Yep
Tell that to the thousands of families who had loved ones die in that event.
Most of the family member's who had loved ones die in that event is already dead, so I only can tell them if some sort of afterlife handphone are made..
so this is tasteless, but whitewashing your textbooks is not.
guess you are the product of years of korean propaganda then
if historical truth = propaganda then yea
glorious Korean lies = historical truth
guess you are the product of years of jap brainwashing then
As a white guy I take racist offense at your use of the term "whitewash" which implies some sort of cover up or under carpet sweeping.
As expected from *ahem* their president
I think that building looks kinda cool.
Oh god, thanks, I thought I was the only one. It's not fantastic but yet, it's pretty. Now if only they'd demolish that tasteless and boring pseudofascist monstruosity (seriously, even the motherfucking soviets built better concrete boxes)...
So, is this the Koreans' shameful attempt at "trolling"?
Glorious trolling indeed...
It's only a shameful attempt if it doesn't work, judging from all the butthurt around here it has. lol
You know whats more offensive than a giant wave? War atrocities, the Japs want the Koreans to get over countless rapes but they can't get over one building.
Oh the irony.
The rapes happened in China, Indonesia, Phillipines. You know, countries Japan invaded during WW2.
Korea was a Japanese colony since 1907. They are just butthurt that they don't get the 'Japanese atrocity' license to bitch. Hell the pansies didn't even mind Japanese colonial government considering there was no concerted opposition aside from modern myths created by Koreans.
LOL what a dumbfuck to think rapes never happened in Korea. Yeah Korea's been colonized before but WWII was when shit hit the fan. Also Korea wasn't the only colony from before II.
No more rapes occured in Korea then in Japan itself at the time. And yes, Taiwan was also a Japanese colony and very appreciative of what the Japanese did for it, despite the atrocities committed in mainland China which the Chinese citizens of Taiwan have every reason to be angry about.
Koreans however have absolutely no validification on why they are a victim of the Japanese (aside from the invasion in 1592). It is comparable to Indians complaining to the British that they are bombing German civilians.
top kek
yeah, because all those 'comfort women' signed up for that. indoctrinated weaboo.
Actually Korea became a protectorate (therefore deprived of it's sovereignty) in 1905 and formally annexed in 1910.
To say that the Koreans were absolutely ok with Japanese occupation is inaccurate and offensive. The Japanese suppressed many forms of Korean culture and exploited the people.
There is evidence to show Koreans were conscripted into forced labor, forced to basically serve as sex slaves, subject to crippling taxes, experimented/vivisected on, and discriminated by the Japanese.
And there was plenty of opposition. Some people chose to resist cultural preservation and education while others chose to fight back. Just read about the Righteous Armies. Also in 1919, the Korean people declared their independence, which resulted in them being brutally suppressed by the Japanese. A Korean government in exile was even set up in Shanghai and it eventually raised its own army.
Also, for those who still won't accept history, what would one gain by "fabricating" this information?
Umm, the building is just recently build, while the murder, the killing all occur in the fucking past.
A moving on term only apply if Korean decide not to build that Tsunami building, as the motive on making that building is pure out of spiteful, alias cannot moving on from old hatred.
It could've been worse. They could've built a building that is shaped like uncovered legs. Japanese hate bare legs.
When this actually affects someone, I'll frown. Not for "offended" thinskins. As you were, trolls.
Of course no one remarks about the reason the original building was even there, because the average japanese person staunchly denies they did anything wrong to korea in history. The fact that the original building is still there is more offensive than anything about the new one.
This is the first thing that came to mind. Of course I am neither an insane reinvisionist nor Japanese.
Then again you've had more than 70 years to
get rid of the original Japanese building if
it bothered Korea so much.
Koreans are like the Jews who have keep ripping
the scab off the cut so you can get pissed off
all over again. Time to move on don't you
think?
Not when the Japanese refuse to admit it ever happened.
Fine, you can argue that they should be the bigger man and just "move on". I actually agree with that; no point holding a grudge.
But in that case the Japanese have no right to pretend that other people forgiving them is natural and then take every little thing as an insult. It's hypocritical. This is on top of the blatant Korean xenophobia that sometimes once rampant.
Korea should be glad we pulled their ungrateful asses out of the middle age and into the industrial revolution.
Then the fuckers ruin it themselves with the Korean War the very second they gain 'independce'. They were also too cowardly to even finish the war.
Korea should really resolve the problem that half of their people are under the yoke of the most oppressive government in the world, rather then engaging in a pissing match with a country that is it's superior.
>korean war
>started by the koreans
Japan only modernized Korea so it could exploit it more efficiently. That's how imperialism works. By building up infrastructure and industry in a colony, you therefore make it more profitable. Of course all the profits go to Japan and not to the Korean people.
The Korean War only began due to the Cold War. When Korea gained it's independence, the US and Soviet Union immediately occupied one half of Korea for themselves. They then immediately set up governments with leaders favorable to them.
The reason why a ceasefire was signed was because no one was making any gains or losses. All the countries fighting the war were also exhausted. The only way the war could've been completed was either through the use of nuclear weapons or an invasion of China, both of which could've led to the war expand into WWIII.
Though Koreans may differ among themselves due to governance and ideology, they will unite when faced with a foreign country, especially one that brought pain to all Koreans
당신은 화가?
TRANSLATION: You mad?
And I didn't even had to use google translate! GLORIOUS.
Be outraged all you want, that's gonna create buzz and that's all they want
Oh this is simply genius humor for me.
why does artefact always write about something that would provoke people of other nations. reporting misleading/bad things about other country while gloriously praising his beloved country japan. perfect example of weeaboo