Why is it called Korean bonzi?

Since the Han Dynasty, the Korean Peninsula has been a vassal state of China. Historically, South Korea has never been an independent country, as can be seen from the name Seoul. The relationship between South Korea and China, explained in words, is the courtiers of the Han people. A dependent country attached to China.

By 1905, the Qing government was too busy to help and take care of this small country. As a result, the Japanese occupied the Korean peninsula and began to colonize South Korea for 40 years.

After Japan occupied the Korean peninsula. At that time, many Koreans joined the Japanese colonial government's police force, but the Japanese narrow island ideology was at work, and they didn't trust the Koreans. Although these North Koreans are both respectful and loyal to the Japanese, the Japanese are still wary of them and have not equipped the police with weapons. When these Koreans maintain social order in the streets, because they have no weapons, everyone takes a big stick to the streets. This stick became a symbol of North Korean politics.

At that time, whenever Koreans opposed Japan, these Korean policemen with sticks severely beat these protesters with sticks.

It is said that these Korean policemen are more ferocious than the Japanese when attacking their compatriots. They chased their compatriots everywhere with big sticks in their hands.

At that time, a western journalist interviewed on the Korean peninsula and witnessed this scene. He also took a famous photo and published it in Europe. The photos of South Korean police chasing their compatriots with sticks shocked the world. This shows that the world's barbaric behavior towards Korean politics at that time. A policeman with a big stick is called a Korean stick. That is, "barbarian with a stick" was a name for pol.ice in Korea at that time. As the saying goes, it is pol.ice who kills others with a stick.

Koreans have become barbarians in the eyes of westerners. Because of Korea, people call it the Korean nation. So at that time, westerners called Koreans Korean bonzi. And spread to all parts of the world. Koryo bonzi is an insulting name for Koreans by westerners.