Strolling & Running Seoul with the coronavirus, South Korea 

JAEMIN LEE I want to share spring with beautiful Seoul even though we have to separate at home.

Jaehyeong Lee 고프로8으로 촬영 했습니다^^

Tues. 70 Although Japanese people have liked cherry blossoms since ancient times, cherry blossoms are flowers that can be found anywhere in the world and are loved by people all over the world.

@@러닝전도사안정은 At the same time, people around the world, except South Korea which takes an anti-Japan policy, show respect for Japanese culture, holding "Japan festival" surrounded by cherry blossoms at their best.

Tues. 70 hahahah you may have learned fake history contents provided by Japanese gov. Go search on google or you’d better read those original hand written archives instead of reading distorted Japanese sources online. You will learn more about the origin of the cherry blossom. Poor Japanese kid....

@@luvurs4263 >>the origin of the cherry blossom. ↑ Sigh... Do you Koreans still claim this? South Korean medea ; "JoongAng Ilbo" (←rather Anti-Japan media) had an article titled "Jeju or Japan? Ends 110-year dispute over Yoshino cherry tree origin" on 2018.Sep.13. They say in the article "It has been asserted that the origin of Japan's Yoshino cherry blossom lies in Jeju, but the DNA test (by Korean research team) has confirmed that the Japanese Yoshino cherry trees and Jeju's King cherry trees are different species. The controversy, which has continued for 110 years, has come to an end abruptly." ”A Korean research team compared and analyzed the genomes of Japanese Yoshino cherry trees that grow in Tokyo and the United States, and found that King cherry trees in Jeju and Yoshino cherry trees in Japan are distinctly different plants. The Japanese Yoshino cherry trees are hybrids that were created through artificial crossing hundreds of years ago, with the maternal line of weeping cherry and the paternal line of oshima cherry tree. Jeju's king cherry tree and Japan's Yoshino cherry tree are both hybrids but different species.” Reading this article, I felt resentful because they just said "110-year dispute over Yoshino cherry tree origin ends" WITHOUT any apology to Japan! And at the end of the article, "Most of the king cherry trees that have spread as garden trees and street trees in South Korea may not be Jeju's king cherry trees but may be Japanese Yoshino cherry trees, '' said Hyun Jin-Oh, director of the Northeast Asian Biodiversity Research Institute. And he added "Must be changed to Jeju's king cherry tree."" " However, it is technically difficult to duplicate only a few king cherry trees that grow only on Jeju Island.

@@luvurs4263 And JoongAng Ilbo, which is one of the three biggest newspapers in South Korea, also published the column about the origin of the cherry blossom on 2018.Sep.15.... The title is "[Fountain] The empty conclusion of the origin of the Yoshino cherry blossom dispute in South Korea" " ""It was planted in large quantities during the Japanese occupation, so the Japanese Yoshino cherry trees we often see in Korea actually originated from King cherry trees in Jeju."" ←This theory has alleviated the nationalist guilt of enjoying the cherry blossoms while enjoying the cherry blossoms. As the Cherry Blossom Festival has become a representative spring festival in Korea and related products have appeared in countless numbers, the “Jeju Origin of Land Theory” has emerged as a nationalistic barrier whenever controversy arises. But the defense logic was strange. This is because the place of origin of the flower and the place of culture that enjoys the flower are different. Even if the world's cherry blossoms originate in Jeju, our (Korean) ancestors have never enjoyed cherry blossoms in past poems or paintings. Instead, our (Korean) ancestors loved plums, azaleas and peaches much more strongly, praised in poetry and painting, and enjoyed in food and drink It was Japan that made cherry blossoms and sweets made of cherry blossoms. Haiku and Ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) about cherry blossoms are numerous. In other words, no matter where it came from, the CUSTOM of enjoying cherry blossoms in Korea today is NOT our (Korean) tradition, but rather came from Japan through the period of the Japanese occupation. In addition, a Korean researcher recently revealed that the theory that Japan's Yoshino cherry trees originated in Korea, Jeju was INcorrect. As a result of the National Forestry Agency's National Arboretum and the team of Myochi University and Kasen University decoding the genome of the king cherry tree of Jeju, it was confirmed that the king cherry tree of Jeju and the Japanese Somei Yoshino are different species. The findings were published in the September 2018 issue of the global journal Genome Biology.. The self-deception of wrapping our non-traditional cherry blossom festival in shady nationalism insisting on the "Somei Yoshino Jeju Origin of Land Theory" is over. There are two alternatives. Either abolish the cherry blossom festival by exercising the spirit of Korean nationalism, or should recognize that Korean cherry blossom festival came from Japan. And it is necessary to search for spring flowers, which have been weakened by cherry blossoms, and that are closely related to our (Korean) traditional culture, and to further develop related festivals. Azalea, for example, has inspired many masterpieces, from Shin Yunbok's painting "Year Kotosei" to Kim Sowol's collection of poems "Azalea Flower". At the very least, you should stop self-deceiving yourself, claiming that this is our tradition because Japanese cherry blossoms originate in Jeju, while piggybacking on popular cherry blossoms. "