Korean Dominated Japan?

Highlander

Banned
I remember this used to be a popular meme awhile ago, but I haven't seen it in a while.

So, what would it take for Korea to have been the one dominating Japan? What would Japanese culture look like?
 
Simple Korea modernizes rather then Japan and then puppetizes it later in the 19th Century. In such a Korean-dominated Japan Korean would be a second language for most people but beyond can't guess really.
 

Susano

Banned
Well, I guess, as long as there is an Asian power to rival the colonial empries, it makes little difference if the centre is in Tokyo or Seoul... of course, Japan was cooler because as basically only major state of the region it nearly always rejected Chinas global claims of symbolic dominance ;)
 
Would it have been as easy as that (Korea modernizes first)? Japan has twice the population, and (at the time, anyway) a more military-oriented culture.

How about an earlier POD: Japan isn't unified by Nobunaga and his crew, and is ultimately divided between four or five powerful warlords. Korea plays them off of each other to keep each of the groups weak and to ultimately benefit Seoul. In the 19th century, Korea begins modernization, helps a puppet warlord modernize, and assists that puppet in at least nominally unifying Japan.
 
Would it have been as easy as that (Korea modernizes first)? Japan has twice the population, and (at the time, anyway) a more military-oriented culture.

How about an earlier POD: Japan isn't unified by Nobunaga and his crew, and is ultimately divided between four or five powerful warlords. Korea plays them off of each other to keep each of the groups weak and to ultimately benefit Seoul. In the 19th century, Korea begins modernization, helps a puppet warlord modernize, and assists that puppet in at least nominally unifying Japan.

Butterflies will not make that work.
 
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