How did Japan and Korea compare to the Chinese civilization at

>>2517008
Korea was just poorer due to its lack of natural resources and arable land. It wasn't considered less culturally developed, just culturally inferior, as the Koreans acknowledged the Emperor of China as the Heavenly Sovereign.

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Koreans literally lived in mudhuts before Japs civilized them.

>>2517022
I mean, Japan is also known to be mountainous and resource poor. How did Korea and Japan compare? And since Korea maintained trade with China, wouldn't they have a stronger economy?

>>2517626
i read somewhere that at one point in japans occupation 20-50% of korean women were sex workers.

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>>2518879
>Sex workers
>Workers
>not slaves
T. Isoroku Hirohito

>>2517008
at what point? the opium wars BUBAR'd china which made japan realize that instead of keeping on isolating themselves they opened up to grow their economy which would grow their military to defend themselves

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>>2517626
when will the "colonialism was just the colonisers building infrastructure out of the good of their heart" meme die

>>2517626
Japan's occupation really is probably one of the biggest reasons why Korea is industrialized today, not just because they built infrastructure, but because the elite of both countries became very linked, and Japan essentially exported that Taipan culture to Korean elites, hence Samsung and other conglomerates.

Of course, the Korean elite won't really admit it, but they were and are very much linked to the Japanese elite.

>>2517910
Japan is much more fertile than Korea

>>2517626
t. Takeshi

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>>2517008
>before the Romans
>not Greeks
into the garbage bin you go