The Washington Post, July 7th, 1996
The young man rocked nervously from heel to toe, standing just out of the rain in his tiny video shop in the maze of stalls at the Sewoon electronics market. He had the goods, he said, glancing around skittishly, but he wanted cash up front and he wanted to do this fast. You can't be too careful selling Japanese videos in South Korea. Almost all Japanese popular culture is banned in South Korea, a lingering act of defiance against Japan's occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. South Koreans still feel the wounds of that period, when Japan forced millions of Koreans to abandon their language, n...
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