mootpt123 comments

If you followed the history between the two countries, you would understand why the Koreans have strong displeasure towards the Japanese. That being said it is somewhat excusable or understandable for a Korean to be abhorrent. Though in modern day reality, both these countries need one another to survive. S. Koreans look at the Japanese as rivals and vice versa. They both strive to be the best in asia if not the world and it is the competitiveness between the two nations that brings out the best in them. But at the end of the day, this rivalry is what brings the two nations closer to each other. Just like the Yankees and the Redsox, metaphorically speaking.

One cannot strive without the other.