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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 5139497, member: 105098&quot;]All I know on the subject is that they have proven through historical records during the Japanese colonization of Korea (1910-1945) this artist who was born in 1912 collaborated with the Japanese colonists, received money for them for his information and that is how his funded his carrer choice of art until they liberated Korea in 1945.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now you can view it any way you want. The Korean government views it as they do not want to honor him with his artwork on their coin or currency because of his collaboration with the colonists in his formative years as an artist.</p><p><br /></p><p>This predates WWII. He was collaborating with Japan against the people of Korea since sometime after WWI until Korea liberated the country from Japan. He wasn&#039;t conscripted, he wasn&#039;t forced into labor like many Koreans. He wasnt beat into submission or his family killed for standing up to the colonists. He gave Japan information in exchange for ease and comfort for himself to pursue his passion. And this is the way the Korean government sees it.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the 100 Won coin. They are melting them down to make the new coin to replace it with as a cost cutting measure.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you like the coin so much buy up as many as you can if you like before they are all gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>this would be similar to finding out the guy who designed the quarter and dollar In the U.S. was a torie and giving info to Britain duing their colonization, and collaborating before and all through the American revolution but he was good at not being found out.</p><p>We would change the currency also and take his artwork out of it and find a new artist too. Hell, we got bent out of shape over a simple V. D. B.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think its cancel culture or revisionist. If anything it&#039;s setting the record straight and refusing to give an artist that worked actively against his own people the honor of his work on their money or an honor in their society.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s their country. They can do what they want.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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