Why does South Korea teach its school kids to hate Japan?

I'm Korean and I've never hear such incidence or education within the South Korean education system. I think the word hate is misleading. When we read about WWII in our history textbooks, are we really taught to hate Hitler and Nazi? read more

The school system does not teach kids to hate Japan. However, children may choose to do so based on learning about the colonization of Korea by Japan, which was brutal at times. Please post a video of the class as I am doubtful that it is credible. read more

I don’t know if Japanese people hate South Koreans, but South Koreans dislike Japanese (I won’t say hate either) because of the colonial history of Japan in the area (1910–1945), which—as any colonial history—wasn’t that pleasant for Koreans in general. read more

They teach their children to believe that they are number one based on a bunch of made-up history with evil bias against other nations such as Japan. In fact, without Japan, South Korea could not modernize itself. The entire peninsula was just a slave country of China until Japan defeated China in 1895. read more