The Netflix series K-pop Demon Hunters (Kedehun) craze is drawing attention for informing internet users worldwide about Japan's history of aggression in the past.
Recently, a foreign TikToker posted a video saying, "After watching Kedehun and looking up tiger history, I learned that Japan wiped out all the tigers in Korea in the last century."
The video has received 180,000 likes and 1.2 million views, and about 2,000 comments have been posted, bringing up Japan's past history.
In fact, during the Japanese colonial rule, Japan classified Korea's tigers as "haesu" (害獸, harmful animals) and there is a history of organized extermination efforts starting in 1917.
On this, Professor Seo Kyung-deok of Sungshin Women's University said, "This is not the first time that Japan's history of aggression has been made known worldwide through OTT."
Apple TV+ Pachinko well depicted the tragedies experienced by Koreans during the Japanese colonial period, such as forced labor and the Japanese military's "comfort women," and informed viewers worldwide about Japan's history of aggression.
Also, Netflix's Gyeongseong Creature portrayed the era of Japanese colonial rule in 1945 and introduced the atrocities of Unit 731's human experiments.
Professor Seo said, "The success of Korean content on OTT platforms has made it possible to widely inform global viewers about the atrocities of Japan during the colonial period," and added, "I hope that a wider variety of K-content will spread around the world so that Asia's history is properly known to people worldwide."
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