Hyeomillyu

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Hyeomillyu (Hangul: 혐일류; Hanja: 嫌日流) or The Hate Japan Wave is Korean cartoonist Yang Byeong-seol's (양병설) response to the book Manga Kenkanryu (The Hating Korea Wave). Yang's book, however, has been greatly criticized by many fellow Korean readers and media outlets for not being sufficient answer to Kenkanryu, as many readers felt it lacks any proof or logical arguments. The cartoonist in an interview admitted that his book was not supposed to be a professionally written article, but something he published with his own money as an emotional outcry toward Kenkanryu. A critique of sections of the book by the Occidentalism blog (where scans provided in both their original Korean and translated to English can be seen) has criticized it as containing mostly racial abuse rather than providing counter-arguments against Kenkanryu, but it should be noted that source accredited has an obvious favoritism for Kenkanryu, declaring it as completely free of racist agenda or historical inaccuracy.