Oh Seon-hwa (呉善花)

 Oh Seon-hwa (呉善花, born 15 September 1956) is a professor at Takushoku University, also active as an author and journalist in Japan.  Originally from Jeju islands, South Korea, she left for Japan in 1983 and went on to naturalise as a Japanese citizen.  In 1998, she lost her South Korean nationality as she had acquired Japanese nationality in 1991.  In 2007 and 2013, she was refused entry to South Korea.

Prof.  Oh Seon-hwa

 

She told at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan that she was probably denied entry because she is widely regarded as a pro-Japan scholar who strongly criticizes South Korea.

The press interview and the corresponding Youtube video1 and video2.  

Publication 

She has been actively published her books regarding the Japan-South Korean relation.  Here, only two are introduced from her many books.

 

「反日韓国に未来はない」(Japanese)

The tile of the book means that Korea won’t open good future due to their anti-Japan policy.

According to her book, she was born in South Korea in 1956 and grew up there till her age 26.  However, she had never heard about Korean wowen who had been taken away against their will (or abducted) by Imperial Japanese military or government authorities during WW2.  She also interviewed older South Koreans who experienced Japan-Korea annexation era and reported that any of them had neither seen nor heard such misbehavior of Japan. 

She described that it was obvious that left-wing activists in Japan incited anti-Japanese nationalists in South Korea to create a malicious made-up story.  The story has been escalating worse and worse something like the following changes from “It might happen” through “It must happen” and finally to “It was the fact”.  

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Getting Over It! Why Korea Needs to Stop BashingJapan (Japanese)

 

 

Top Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars at Amazon.com

But Japan also had painful experience by the atomic bombard

By Michael Chung on August 25, 2015

The World has badly experienced through the War. One of them was Korea under the Imperial Japanese occupation. But Japan also had painful experience by the atomic bombard, all over the country during the World War II and after the War too.

Now, we in 21 century have been trying to achieve the world peace. But Korean peninsula is seriously troubled under the war situation even if they are under a cease- fire. So the peninsular is still one of the symbolic remains of the Cold War. Then the world has been watching carefully about the provocative acts of North Korea, Kim, Jung-Eun.

The neighborhood, Japan that is a liberal democracy and with the sense of the same culture between Korea has helped Korean economy, modern technics, and national security which rendered great services to foreign trade, and national modernization to become one of the OECD after the World War II.

However, Korea has been bashing Japan with the past-affairs which was like the water under the bridge, and renders few services to the friendship between two nations, In spite of North Korea’s invasion menace. In this case, in the near future, Korea will be destroyed helplessly by North’s invasion and disappeared in the world maps.

The author, who has worried about Korean bashing Japan, has been chronologically studying of Korean problems through the history between two countries. Today, at the time of the 70th anniversary of the end of the 2nd World War, this book is suggesting how to achieve the World Peace and the stability of Korean peninsula. So I like to recommend this is a good book for reading once.

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5.0 out of 5 stars　　　

An excellent book!!  At Amazon.com

By Hyung-Sung Kim on January 23, 2016

As a Korean, I swear that this book is based on facts. Unfortunately, Professor Oh is hated in South Korea because she tells the inconvenient truth. The following links confirm Professor Oh is right on the mark with this book.

http://scholarsinenglish.blogspot.jp/2014/10/i-am-91-years-old-and-i-want-to-tell.html

http://scholarsinenglish.blogspot.jp/2014/10/the-new-korea-by-alleyne-ireland.html

http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/History/JapanandGermany.pdf

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5.0 out of 5 stars　

Historical facts laid down on the Korea-Japan relation, old and recent.

By Amazon Customer on February 10, 2016

This book lays out historical facts about the Korea-Japan relationship over the years. Highly recommended to students at high schools and colleges, particularly Koreans who think Oh Sonfa is a traitor for Korea.