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Message:: [QUOTE="mlov43, post: 5140227, member: 16729"]Okay.  Here ARE the reasons why: According to the Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities, the artist received the recognition and support of the Japanese colonial government from 1941 to 1944 as he built his career. Is this quote supposed, too? I counseled you before to just forget you saw that. True. Pardon my complaints, then.   Perhaps you never "lament that things are changing?" If that's the case, you are the ultimate progressive, sir! The problem isn't the coin changing, really. It's the unfair destruction of an artist's reputation, and the fact that generations will have this interpretation of him spoon-fed to them going forward. In the past, South Korea's currency planners seemed to consider things much more carefully than in the current case with the proposed changes to the 100-Won, 5,000-Won, 10,000-Won and 50,000-Won.  Previous "political" changes in currency were in response to public outcry (maybe not always the best thing to respond to...).  Responding to public outcry does have a sort of "representative governing" aspect to it, IMO.  However, the Moon government's decision has a "my tribe" decision-making flavor to it.  THAT is different from previous South Korean currency alterations. Again, this decision brings with it the real possibility that a follow-on right wing government will just reverse it, or "redesign the redesign" in tit-for-tat partisan fashion.  That would also be new. Again, unless I'm getting this wrong, the Moon government's decision is not befitting the more measured and reasonable approach of earlier governments.[/QUOTE]

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