My maternal grandmother is from North Korea, so yeah I have some blood in the DPRK
Coffeebeanz posted...
Koreans apparently believe that Sun Wukong was a Korean monkey in the original Journey to the West. I'm like wat.
Koreans are fiercely nationalistic and yeah, they make a lot of claims like this. Some of them are valid (such as Baekjae art being found in Japan being... you know, from Baekjae), while others are not (claims that Kevlar was developed in Korea first, your thing about SUn Wukong, etc)
It's got SOME validity tho because Journey to the West is a Korean tale too - the real explanation is probably that it originated from Buddhist beginnings, not Chinese or Korean necessarily. Could be INDIA (hanuman anyone?)
cuteandkawaii posted...
tbf, modern SK is actually very high up on the civilization chart. I'd say its higher than most of loleurope only beaten out by Germany, Netherlands and the Scandanavian countries.
rofl maybe from a distance when you're in it, in the gutters with the other koreans, they got a long way to go
besides, i was talking about korea from like 1600s-1890
lol southern and eastern europe are completely shitholes ---