Oh yeah, no, totally right it's not like Japan isn't still a complete asshole to South Korea. And I mean, it's not like Japan is trying to erase the fact that they kept South Korea sex slaves in World War 2, but you're right! They're sooo overreacting.

To be fair, the Rising Sun flag is sort of the Asian equivalent to the Nazi flag, or the Confederate flag, depending on how far you want to go back with flags that hold negative connotations.

Younger Koreans are becoming less engaged with the economic and political struggles that their parents and grandparents lived through, but the country is run by middle-aged and older folks, so that's why you can still see a lot of anti-Japanese resentment playing out in the culture. Also, again, we're talking about 50…

Geez, how dare most middle-aged Koreans be able to remember growing up in abject poverty, with fractured families, maimed fathers, and so on, due to 50 years of Japanese occupation and living through decades of sustained war, much of it related to throwing off the yoke of Japanese rule? They should really learn to…