“I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. The descendants of other independence activists will not be different. The level of remarks should be enough to cover up and even the other person, but it’s not so stupid, so I can’t just talk.”
On the 15th, Mr. Cha Young-jo (78), a descendant of Cha Ri-seok, an independence activist who served as the secretary of the Provisional Government <오마이뉴스>This is a response to the writings of webtoon writer Seo-in Yoon who depreciated the independence movement in a call with.
He said, “As I have not been able to liquidate the pro-Japanese remnants until now, the original sin of’pro-Japanese’ flows as it is (like Yoon Seo-in), and there seems to be someone who thinks and talks about it. Mr. Cha took his breath several times throughout the call.
On the 12th, webtoon writer Seo-in Yoon posted a picture on his Facebook page comparing the homes of pro-Japanese descendants and those of independence activists. “While the pro-Japanese descendants lived so hard, what on earth did independence activists descendants do. Before, the so-called pro-Japanese were people who lived hard and independence activists were people who lived roughly.”
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| ▲ On the 12th, webtoon writer Seo-in Yoon posted a picture comparing the homes of pro-Japanese descendants with those of independence activists on his Facebook page, and left a remark, “While pro-Japanese descendants lived so hard, what on earth did independence activists descendants?” | |
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Yoon’s remarks spread through online communities and various social media, and in the end, Yoon deleted the post. However, on the 14th, Yun said on his Facebook page again on the 14th, “It’s a good thing to be attracted to wide-area aggro,” and “the number of people who listen to me is increasing. My interest is not coins, but enlightenment and expansion. Enlightenment and expansion must be accompanied by curse He posted an article entitled “Welcome” with the nuance of welcoming the accusations against himself.
His father, Governor Cha Ri-seok, who was at the heart of the Provisional Government, died of overwork in 1945, when Cha Young-jo was two years old. After liberation, Mr. Cha and his mother, Governor Hong Mae-yeong, entered the country with difficulty, but suffered from the threat of terror from pro-Japanese forces. Feeling threatened by her personal life, her mother forced her son Yeongjo to abandon her father’s adult Mr. Cha and live as Mr. Shin, minus two strokes above and below. Cha, who suffered from poverty, recovered his original surname only after he became an adult.
“Are the independence activists roughly living?”
On this day, Mr. Cha did not hide his uncomfortable feelings, saying, “It’s just amazing,” about Yoon Seo-in’s remarks, “Wouldn’t the independence activists be people who lived roughly?”
“Now, the surviving patriotic branch and the Liberation Society members are all sympathetic. Is there anyone among the independence activists who lived roughly? If so, tell me.”
That would be the case with Mr. Cha’s father, Cha Ri-seok, who left after the independence movement until his death. As a young man, he worked as a teacher at Daesung School, founded by Ahn Chang-ho, and joined the Shinmin Association, a secret society. In the process, he was implicated in a simulated assassination case of Governor Deraichi and served three years. After the March 1st Movement, he exiled to Shanghai, China and served as editor-in-chief of the Independent Newspaper. After following Dr. Yoon Bong-gil’s decision in 32 years, he served as a State Council member and secretary of the Provisional Government and was responsible for the difficult living of the Provisional Government until liberation.
Mr. Cha said, “It’s a pity, but some of the descendants of the independence movement say the same sound as (Yoon Seo-in),” he said. “So on Liberation Day, there may be people with Japanese flags fluttering in Gwanghwamun Square and bringing out the Rising Sun flag in front of the girl statue. It’s a shame, but we need to be alert now so that the government can establish its history correctly. The’Pro-Japanese Praise Prohibition Act’, which was promoted 75 years after liberation, is necessary.”
In June of last year, both Hyang-ja and Democratic Party lawmakers proposed the’Historical Distortion Prohibition Act’, which punishes distorting or disregarding historical facts or damaging the honor of national merit. The bill is currently pending in the National Assembly.
On the 14th, a petition entitled’Please punish the cartoonist who slaughtered the independence activist’ appeared on the 14th, centering on netizens. The petition agreement continues around the Liberation Society. As of 15 o’clock on the 15th, 35,000 citizens have agreed.
In an article, Petitioner suggested, “Please dispose of this extraordinary act of publicly abusing the independence activist throne, who gave everything for the motherland to the extent that he could not even leave a remarkable legacy to his descendants.”