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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear all, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In a casual conversation with I was recently told that Park Geun-Hye supposedly made a statement along the lines of "the annexation of Korea by Japan was never accepted by the Western powers" or something similar<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don't follow Korean news media that regularly, but this aroused my curiosity as I had not heard any claim like this before. I therefore went onto Google and Naver and made a series of searches with relevant terms, in both Korean and English, but have not been able to dig up anything remotely resembling such a statement.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Has anybody come across this perhaps and can point me to an (approximate) date, occasion or statement that may have been about something else but contained such a claim?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Stefan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>___________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dr. Stefan Knoob<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lecturer for Korean and Korean Studies<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Centre for East Asian Studies <i>AND</i> Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>Sinologie, Akademiestr. 4-8 KJC, Building 4400, Vossstr. 2 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>69117 Heidelberg 69115 Heidelberg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE> <span style='color:#002060'>E-mail: <a href="mailto:stefan.knoob@zo.uni-heidelberg.de">stefan.knoob@zo.uni-heidelberg.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div></body></html>