其實想寫這篇文章很久了，最近又看到Cheers這篇批評別人來自爽的報導
(【韓國連線】採訪日記 DAY2：英文無用？)，實在讓人搖搖頭，要知道全中文世界的台北市同時也被多少外國人抱怨旅遊不便，英文路標的翻譯標示亂七八糟，台灣人普遍的英文程度也好不到那裡去，根本是五十步笑百步。唯一公認較優的地方是態度友善，熱心幫忙，這才是值得稱許的。
我在今年28歲，這個全球最典型臉孔，共有九百萬漢族男子的平均年齡。母親於這麼大時產下我。陳柏霖、賀軍翔、郭惠妮、陳妍希...等與我同年生的人都已經在舞台上發光發亮，就連北韓的金正銀也接任當上領導。前陣子看報導，中國大陸有位同樣年紀，殘而不廢的男子正靠歌唱四處賺錢生活著......大家都在努力為生活打拼。很多人不明白為何我在這年齡還要到韓國來，或許以下就是我部分的答案...
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As a Taiwanese, after living abroad for 2 years, I am really sick of the islander-mind. In Taiwan island, seems Taiwan is almost about everything. It is hard to know what happened outside this island, because nobody cares.
These years, it is easy to become a target once you mention "Korean" in Taiwan. It usually comes along with "xx dog", "xx kimchi"..., even the head of finest IT company in Taiwan dare to declare a war publicly, said that "Korea is everyone's enemy." Korean has already literally become the public enemy, a taboo in Taiwan.
Not to mention the net, anything related to Korea posted always follows with criticism and dirty words from those patriots. For instance, a news said that a Korean women was physically abused in Taipei, there were even some so-called patriots commented: "Hurrah!", this kind of worse-than-beasts words fulfilled the whole page. Through this I can see how petty their mind is. Those patriots always yell "I LOVE Taiwan", but how much have they really done for Taiwan? (hate Korea counts?) Have they ever really known any Korean people?
After the vent, then?
Acer's touch monitor team was dismissed unexpectedly. Samsung is still one of the prevalent bands worldwide.
Taiwanese girls continue to rush to the trend of K-pop overwhelmingly. Many of them married Korean guys.
Taiwanese guys still dream they were in the "Girls' Generation", and pray Korean won't come here.
In fact, I used to be one of those who dislike Korean. Because they can cheat on games, do whatever it takes to win, they claim shamelessly that Confucius, the Dragon Boat Festival and Pizza are from Korea. However, all the information source is from our media.
It is until I met some REAL Korean overseas, then I realize that this is not as simple as people see. Actually, most of Korean don't know much about those arrogant opinions. They are just confused that why there are people on a southern island hate them so much. Nevertheless, the truth is that the majority of Korean know Philippines and Thailand, but they never heard of Taiwan, don't even know where Taiwan is. They only care about Japan, America and China. It turns out that those intolerant views are from some specific groups in Korea, not the pubic. In other words, it is only another gossip to them. Ends up being spread by Chinese media.
Speaking of which, I could not help wondering that while WWII, Japan had killed thousands of people in Taiwan; they dare to crash Taiwanese fishing boat to claim the faraway Diaoyu island's sovereign of right. Why do not Taiwanese deem Japan bad? (Personally I am okay with Japan.)
Business as war. Businessmen's job is to do whatever necessary to win. The issue of "Samsung as informer" occurred twice is merely a significant battle. Many Korean don't know this. In the end, not just Taiwanese companies were hurt, but also Samsung's foe: LG, another Korean company was punished, which indicates that this is obviously a business matter. In moral view, Samsung's behavior of being an informer is nasty indeed. But is it real that Taiwanese enterprises never cheat? Come on, let's not deceive yourself.
In the same furious athletic field, take Taekwondo, the most competitive between Taiwan and Korea for example. I got black tie since I learned from childhood. A lot of Taiwanese doesn't know the Taekwondo is from Korea(true!). Taekwondo is a treasure to Korean that they might seek the victory more seriously than usual. It is shame that the Korean umpire is not fair, totally unacceptable. However, this is not so incomprehensible. Since victory is such important to the Korean, and they are so patriotic, no wonder this could happen. There is nothing wrong people loving their country.(but just in a bad way) Moreover it is not only the Korean could be unfair, everybody in this world loves their own country. The point is whether it is discovered and reported by the media or not. Personally I would rather to start cooperate with Korean or engage other sports than being meaningless angry. There is a wide range of sports in the world. Why does Taiwan have to choose Taekwondo and fight with determined Korea? Taiwan is good at Golf, Billiard, Table tennis, Badminton......which can beat Korea undoubtedly. On the other hand, the most popular Baseball and Basketball sport in Taiwan now are no longer strong like before. As for the most globally widespread sport: Soccer, Taiwan soccer team? Never heard of it.
It is such a pity that today Taiwan against Korea as both have so many similar parts that we can share each other:
1. Both are small countries, the interaction between China, Japan and the US is critical.
2. Both are democratic nations, in the front line of communist nations.
3. Both lack natural resource, rely on external trade extremely.
4. Both produce identical products.
5. Both prefer creative design, and head the same way in the future.
6. Both have similar environment. When I arrived Korea in 2004, I was surprised the surroundings look like Taiwan a lot, even within the Seoul city. It could be kind of Taipei after change the Korean with Chinese character on the shop signs. (personal opinion)
I remember when I was in school 10 years ago. The Japanese and American stuff are so popular in Taiwan. Korea was nothing but a small country no one cares. But few months ago, when I came back from Australia after 2 years, it is totally different: Walking on the street, Korean songs and dramas are everywhere. The prevalence of K-pop impressed me!
After the serious lesson of financial crisis 97', Korea not only climbed back from the bottom, but step into the limelight of the world. Korea's GDP surpassed Taiwan's easily within few years. Although Taiwan had survived from the crisis, but since then went downward until now. The primary salary for Korean university graduates can range from 60,000 NTD per month; Taiwanese university graduates only can receive no more than 30,000 NTD in one month.....Is all of this not enough to teach Taiwan a good lesson? The former Minister of Economic Affairs, current CEO of External Trade Development Council agrees so, thus prompting the cooperation of Taiwan and Korea. Meanwhile the Representative of Korea in Taipei office also wrote an article to indicate that "The relationship of Korea-Taiwan is underestimated".(低평가된 한·대만 관계)
From the perspective of history, thanks to Korea that Taiwan can maintain the freedom and democracy today. When the Korean War broke out in 1950, Korean had sacrificed thousands of lives to fight with Chinese communists, which kept them away from Taiwan. In the meantime, this also urged the Americans to pay more attention to the importance of Taiwan defense. Hence they sent the US seventh fleet to Taiwan simultaneously.
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