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Post by Choko on Jun 27, 2005 12:14:24 GMT -5
Thanks florel. You did a lot of works. Wow....  |
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Post by skinz on Jun 28, 2005 8:59:48 GMT -5
I came to distrust Japanese historical records when I found the fact that Japanese history books, studied by a Korean historian, were offering three different dates (and four dates if we include Korean argument) about the death year of Keyamura Rokusuke who was supposed to be killed by Korean woman Non-Gae. Ugh! What a disgrace. One thing about History that I hate is that it is easily manipulated if primary sources aren't available. |
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Post by florel on Jun 28, 2005 12:24:51 GMT -5
Bo : I'll leave in mid-July. But I've already been in mental vacancies. lol I really need to take rest ! Choko : I should be paid next time.  Skinz : I agree with you. And I also hate some historians who manipulate primary sources for political (or other) purposes. Many primary sources are written in ancient languages (Hanja letters, Greek, Latin, Middle English, Middle French, Middle German, etc.), so they are difficult of access for the public if they are not translated in modern languages. |
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Post by JP Paulus on Jul 3, 2005 8:21:26 GMT -5
Btw, this is a question related to Yi Soon Shin's final battle. Do you guys find it hard to believe that a guy like that could get killed with a stray bullet? It almost does him injustice in a way...u kno wat I mean? I mean, here's this brilliant, great navy commander who has high moral standards and stuff, and he gets killed because of a STRAY bullet? My mom wouldn't believe it when I told her at first that that's how he really died. She thought he committed suicide...but that doesn't suit him either. I thought he just died a natural death. *Sigh*...fate was so cruel to Yi Soon Shin...even to his death. As i've seen the series....the way the show portrays it, it seems by the end of his life, Yi Soon-shin perhaps WAS despondent enough to..not commit suicide, but LET himself be killed (according to the drama, we purposely took OFF his armor). The beginning of the show portrays him as an idealistic young man...but as we've gone through the episodes...he's had a lot of crap put on him, and the worst hasn't even hapenned yet.! i think we'll see in perhaps episodes 70-85 (a guess) why Yi Soon-shin might be severely depressed. Well, that's my theory, anyway. |
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Post by Thedummie2 on Jul 11, 2005 15:05:24 GMT -5
Actually, my mom thought that too when I asked for an explanation. She was like, "Well...I don't believe that he got killed by a stray bullet that easily. He's too great of a man to. I think he LET himself get killed in that final battle because he knew that if he survived, he would have to face the king and the highly factionalized Chosunese government. Personally I don't blame him. I would too. Stupid king and stupid Won Kyun with their stupid little jealousies. Why couldn't they just appreciate him? Maybe Chosun would have been a better nation." Now that I think about it...it does seem plausible that he would too. So sad...like I said, fate was cruel to our poor admiral.  |
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Post by BungalowDweller on Jul 11, 2005 19:51:23 GMT -5
And after Japanese soldiers get impaled on the spikes, I wonder how the CHosunese would get them off -_-. Some would still be alive and stuck to the ship Just like when Captain Ahab in Melville's Moby Dick was caught by the harpoon line meant to finish off the whale and flew out of the row boat. In the old movie, Ahab was caught up in harpoon lines and tied to Moby Dick where he went down to his death. I'll bet the Koreans left those bodies up there, impaled. What a terrifying sight for the enemy! |
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