"Hanbando" begins with the hypothetical premise that Japan will emerge in the near future as the main opponent of the unification of North and South Korea. It also criticizes Japan's historical distortions of its rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.
To prove Japan has no right to the ownership, patriotic historian Choi Min Jae, with cooperation from other progressive politicians and the President of South Korea, seeks the authentic