I Became Park Jeong-ui’s Nephew - Chapter 276



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He became Park Jeong-ui’s nephew. – (276)

“Your Majesty, this is the information you requested before.”

“Good job.”

This is the Daedeok County official residence.

I received the data from the statistics department.

Korea brought in Japanese people from China to supplement its insufficient manpower during the Song-Ho War. Even before that, Korea accepted 12,000 Japanese people who were unable to return home as its own citizens.

So, are they adapting and living well in Korea?

In fact, there are not many Japanese people living in mainland Korea.

Most of them (1.3 million) settled in Songho, and about 30,000 to 40,000 moved to Jeju Island. Is there any possibility that they married Koreans and formed families?

The answer can be found roughly by looking at the Japanese colonial period.

[How many Korean-Japanese couples were there during the Japanese colonial period? In 1912, about 110 couples got married, but in 1937, the number increased slightly to 126 couples. However, this includes common-law relationships in addition to marriage registrations, so it is estimated that there were more people who were left out of the statistics.]

At first glance, one might mistakenly think that the rate of marriages between Koreans and Japanese was high.

However, considering that there were 4.64 million Korean couples and 100,000 Japanese couples at the time, the number of Korean-Japanese couples should be considered non-existent.

“What are you going to do by marrying a Korean man?!!”

“Women who marry into Joseon should be erased from the family register!!”

This was the Japanese people’s view on marriage at the time.

The fact that such antipathy was expressed despite the fact that there were almost no Japanese people marrying Korean men means that at the time, Japan hated having anything to do with Koreans.

The Japanese Empire encouraged exchanges between Koreans and Japanese to achieve national unity, but the reality was completely different.

No, the Japanese Empire probably didn’t want to get involved with Koreans either.

In July 1923, the Japanese Government-General implemented the “Joseon Family Registration Ordinance,” which legally approved marriages between Koreans and Japanese and the subsequent transfer of resident registration, but did not institutionally recognize the transfer of resident registration for Koreans.

The difference between a transfer and a full transfer is the question, ‘Can a Chinese woman become a Korean if she marries a Korean man?’

Even if you are Chinese, if you live in Korea, your address can be changed to Korea.

But can a Chinese woman’s registered residence be in Korea just because she married a Korean man?

In this way, Koreans and Japanese continued to be distinguished and discriminated against in their family registers.

Would you want to be a banned person and endure such institutional irrationality?

That’s why, even during the Japanese colonial period, Koreans and Japanese married each other.

However, many people mistakenly believe that ‘Korean men were popular’ by citing statistics showing that Japanese women married Korean men.

It’s the same for Japanese men,

He was furious when he saw Japanese women marrying Korean men, saying, “Japan’s sacred bloodline is being polluted with Korea’s dirty blood.”

This logic is being applied directly in Korea.

Didn’t Mao Zedong say, “The only thing we can sell is women,” and export women to the US and Korea about 30 years ago?

At that time, 3 million Chinese women were sent overseas.

Most of them went to the United States, where they married Chinese people who had settled there.

But some of them settled in Korea and married Koreans. Did that pollute the sacred blood of Korea?

It’s like mixing a few drops of water in a bottle of cola. According to the National Statistical Office, there are over 9 million Korean couples.

In comparison, there are about 20,000 Korean + foreign couples, which is a probability of 0.002%. Does this mean that Korean blood is being polluted?

But Koreans are in an uproar.

“Don’t marry a Chinese person!!”

“What do Korean women love about marrying Americans?!!”

“What’s so good about Korean men that they marry Japanese women?!!”

I have no intention of laughing at this behavior.

Historically, the Japanese colonial period was like that, and the United States also has no quiet days due to multi-ethnic issues.

So the question here is,

Would Koreans recognize the Geumneung-Songho-Yan people, who make up half of the total population, as Koreans?

The answer can be found when we look at Korea, which is unhappy about the fact that only 20,000 couples have entered into international marriages.

The people of overseas territories also have many complaints,

The Chinese make up half of the Korean population, but Koreans in the mainland can’t accept this?

Just as Japan exploited and ignored Joseon, should Korea also exploit overseas territories? The head of state makes a fuss about investing overseas, and that’s why the Chinese want the Korean government to move its capital to the continent.

The same goes for the Japanese who settled in Songho.

Although they consider themselves Korean, they marry only Japanese people in the area, and if that doesn’t work, they bring in brides from Japan.

Even though we are in the same frame called Korea, we refuse to mix with each other.

Of course, even in this time of need, love and marriage that transcend realistic constraints do occur, but they are only a very small number.

Can I unify this chaotic political situation?

My head is a little complicated.

‘If I die, Korea might be torn apart. No, that’s what will happen.’

Even I, who enjoy absolute power, cannot do anything about this problem, so how can future politicians unify society?

If it was destined to be torn apart someday, taking action in advance was a method, and making overseas territories independent was also seriously considered.

***

“Your Majesty, this way.”

“Oh~ there are a lot of cows?”

“Yes, the staff also milk the cows day and night.”

This is Geumneung, and I took my entourage to a tour of a dairy farm.

It was in 1962 that Korea began importing dairy cows and producing them on its own.

The Korean people’s ideal is to live in a small space with tens of millions of people and dream of self-sufficiency.

But reality is different from the ideal. Dairy cows produce milk every day, but if you don’t milk them on time, the cows get sick.

This is why farm workers have to milk cows day and night. Who would want a job like this?

Even looking at Korea’s dairy industry, the proportion of people in their 20s and 30s is close to extinction.

Since there is no influx of people, only older people work in this field, and now that the country has developed, Koreans do not want to do difficult work.

The best work life is going to work on time, eating on time, and leaving on time. Do you think a country like this could become self-sufficient in milk?

In the end, industries such as dairy farming had no choice but to be concentrated in Geumneung.

As a result, Geumneung’s food self-sufficiency rate reached 138%, and its milk self-sufficiency rate jumped to 204%.

Geumneung has a population of 40 million, so they produce enough milk for 80 million people to drink. Shouldn’t they sell it to other countries?

Since Korea has recently become a major exporter with a westernized diet and the income of native Koreans is high, Geumneung people have naturally been able to earn high profits.

Geumneung is a region where you can make a living even if you become independent.

I have now accepted that it is time to let you go from my arms.

“Promote Geumneung’s independence.”

“Yes? Your Majesty… what did you just say?”

“I thought about it carefully, and when I die, Geumneung people and Koreans will fight each other like Russia and Ukraine. I think we should separate before that happens. That’s the best plan.”

This statement shook Geumneung and Korea at the same time.

The Geumneung people have no intention of independence, and instead hope that the Korean leader will move the capital to the continent.

No, I was against independence from Korea because I was not sure if Geumneung could become economically independent. Korea was also dissatisfied with the situation.

“Why are you allowing independence for a territory that we just conquered?!!”

“If you were going to make it independent, you shouldn’t have conquered it!!”

“Then will the Geumneung people recognize us as Koreans? They can’t do that, right?”

Koreans regard Geumneung as an overseas colony, but how is that any different from the Japanese imperial mindset that exploited Joseon?

If we truly recognize that land as part of Korea, shouldn’t we also recognize the people of that region as Koreans?

But the Geumneung people refuse to marry Koreans, and they are also dissatisfied with the Korean leader investing there.

Politics is not childish tantrums, and should I listen to such complaints?

As planned, we pushed for independence and first gathered opinions from both sides. 77% opposed independence, and 79% of Koreans also voted against it.

We insist that we can never be apart, so shouldn’t we live together?

I revised the law based on statistical data.

“If a Korean and a person from an overseas territory marry, both the spouse’s transfer of residence and registration are permitted. However, since marriage may be a means of undermining the essence of the law, registration is limited to 7 years after marriage.”

In this way, a path has been created for Chinese people to change their registered residence to Korea if they marry a Korean.

But this is not an easy task. If you don’t have love, would you marry a Korean just for the sake of a record? You have to endure for 7 years, and if you break up during the period, the years you lived together will be excluded from the combined period.

It is not easy for a Geumneung person to become Korean, or for a Korean to become a Geumneung person.

But what’s important is that a legally permissible path has opened up.

As the law was revised, 20,000 Japanese people and 40,000 Chinese people completely immigrated to Korea. Even though people ask, “Why are you marrying a Chinese person? Why are you marrying a Japanese person?”, those who live together still live together.

If we acknowledge this, we will be able to resolve the conflict between Korea and its overseas territories.

I also took the lead.

Although his registered address is in Korea, he moved his residence to Geumneung.

I don’t have a Chinese spouse, but isn’t it legally possible for a Korean to reside in Geumneung? Besides, I’m a businessman leading Daehan Transportation, right?

The Geumneung Administrative Office immediately issued a transfer permit.

If we compare it to the Japanese colonial period, it would be like the Japanese emperor moving to Korea. If the Japanese emperor came to Joseon, we would have to suffer from terrorist threats, but not me.

I am the person who raised Geumneung’s economy by 100% compared to 20 years ago. Citizens who took to the streets held the Taegeukgi in their hands and shouted, “Long live the Republic of Korea.”

The claim that Japan raised the economic growth rate of its colony of Joseon by 4% every year is nonsense, but this is a reality that is happening right before our eyes.

40 million Geumneung people welcomed the Korean leader’s advance into the continent.

“We will be loyal to our enemy.”

“Can I line up here?”

There were also responses from inland China.

Inland China is still in the midst of a civil war between warlords, and it is only natural that the warlords are nervous as the Korean leader has advanced into the continent.

If the Korean leader were to advance inland with 60 million ethnic Koreans at the forefront, would the warlords be able to withstand it?

A situation where it wouldn’t be strange if it were to be swept away at any time,

The warlords, who judged that there was no chance of winning, bowed their heads on their own, and some of them whispered in my ears.

“Because of those guys, civil wars are constantly breaking out in the interior. If we subdue them, the continent will become stable!!”

“No!! The chaos in China is because of those guys!! If you give us your support, we will immediately punish them!!”

A situation where the owner of the inland area may change depending on who I nominate.

But I pretended not to know.

Didn’t I move to Jinling to eat up the Chinese mainland?

It was only to appease the discontent of the Geumneung people and integrate Korean society, and the unification of the continent was postponed as a task for the future.