Some people are saying that https://github.com/ubolonton/emacs-tree-sitter will eventually replace the default regexp-based font-lock for syntax highlighting. I'm personally testing it out and it's been great!
I just wish they had a restore feature like chrome does.
On firefox, once you close gracefully, there doesn't seem to restore the whole previous session without using an extension.
The identity-destroying part only came after 1938. They were trying to do 내선일체 [內鮮一體] (not sure how to translate this in English).
Before that, they actually helped Koreans learn Hangul.
I was also very anti-Japan as a I grew up under typical Korean parents.
But after reading the actual history, there were some good parts during the colonization. Although, I'm not denying the horrific parts caused by war. But that's just war. It's horrible to begin with. Not to mention what Koreans did in the Vietnam War to the locals.
I think part of the hostility from either of the countries is caused by only seeing part of the reality.
I guess the word you are looking for is "cultural assimilation". 内鮮一体 is the specific case of Japan and Korea.
The Japanese were fresh out of their own industrial revolution so had plenty of experience to do the same thing in Korea. The legacy of that is that Korean and Japanese societies have a lot in common eg Chaebol and Keiretsu. Following the war Japan sheltered people persecuted by the ROK dictatorship (eg Kim Dae-jung, Lee Byung-chul)
> I think part of the hostility from either of the countries is caused by only seeing part of the reality.
It's tribal. East Asian People are racist against each other and each other's countries, but East Asian Persons get on just fine.
> The identity-destroying part only came after 1938. They were trying to do 내선일체 [內鮮一體] (not sure how to translate this in English). Before that, they actually helped Koreans learn Hangul.
Banning Hangul and erasing Korea's independent cultural identity intentionally traced the pattern of Japan's nearly identical actions a few decades earlier in conquering Ryukyu, including classifying each suppressed language as a "dialect" of Japanese.
As a contrast to Korea, the former Ryukyu Kingdom is now fully subsumed as the Okinawan islands and its original languages, religions, and culture are, in practice, nearly extinct.
Korean here who has been watching webtoons since the very beginning.
Unlike some recent hits made by printed manhwa artists, webtoons were initially an amateur thing. Where as mangas always seemed to have a certain level of professionality in terms of detail and storytelling.
That said, it is interesting how Koreans adapt to these technologies really fast and globalize their culture through a media platform.
It feels really weird when you spot someone reading a webtoon in public in the US because that was just native Koreans who lived in Korea 5 years ago.
Since you've been reading webtoons for a long time, I have a question if you have time.
A lot of the most popular webtoons I've read are based on serialized novels (e.g. 귀환자의 마법은 특별해야 합니다) -- I've been wondering if this is an actual link, or just some kind of selection bias. Do you know?
I'm not really sure what the "most popular" webtoons among non-Koreans.
I know some American friends who showed me some that were supposedly popular, but I couldn't recognize.
That's certainly not a trend in mainstream webtoons, which are usually the Naver Webtoons. Nearly all (can't think of any one based on something) of them on that platform are original content. Sometimes they get published as novels. Like Noblesse.
I think the particular one you mentioned is based on a webnovel (similar to webtoons but novels).
I definitely see this trend in Japanese mangas though.
I'd compare the Korean webtoon scene more to the american webcomic scene than to the professional manga environment. Maybe it also compares well to doujin, though to me it feels like the closest resemblance is webcomics.
