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South Korean claims over Chinese and Japanese culture is an ongoing controversial issue where persons of Korean ethnicity, and in some cases, the South Korean government itself, claims various aspects of Chinese and Japanese) culture as their own creation, as a byproduct of heightened Korean nationalism. Such claims are also made that certain celebrities are of Korean descent, or that human inventions be originated from the Korean peninsula. These claims are known under the name of "Korea-Origin Theory" (韓國起源論, 韓国起源説) by the lump in China and Japan and understood as a kind of Korean nationalism act.  These claims are sometimes picked up not only on the internet but by mass media nowadays, such as SAPIO, OhmyNews and People's Daily.  In Japan, it is well known that Manga Kenkanryu featured this issue.

General Idea
According to Oh Myung-chul, an editorial writer of Dong-a Ilbo, "Koreans obsess over being the wonjo (wonjo means originator in Korean)" and "when we go to Jangchung-dong, Seoul, where pork hock restaurants are crowded, we see so many signboards saying “wonjo” all around the area. Each restaurant insists they are the original pork hock restaurant, with words on the signboards such as: Wonjo, Jinzza Wonjo (meaning real originator), Wonjo of Wonjos (Originator of Originators), the house seen on TV, and No. 1 Restaurant ." Example of various claims include not only Koreas own culture but also foreign culture such as Kendo, Judo, Sumo wrestling, Kabuki, Samurai, Yoshino cherry, Shinto shrines, Sake, sashimi, and so on.

These claims are also known as "uriginal," which is a word coined from "uri" (meaning "our" in Korean) and "original". This word is so populary used in Japan that there is even a university professor who uses the word in his website. Masami Oiso, a former professor at University of Shizuoka, Japan, says that this is happening because Koreans have the sense that they can say anything especially to Japan, treating it with distain.

In 2007, South Korea was elected as the country which Chinese internet users hate the most according to Xinhua News Agency and the reason was that Koreans were regarded by Chinese as a country that claims Chinese cultuer as if it were Korean culture.

Shunpei Mizuno, a Japanese author who has been working on this issue, states that "although these claims look to Japanese eyes like a ridiculous distortion of history, Koreans see these claims as "re-difinition of history" in order to establish "Koreans' ethinic justice and self-esteem" by "raising the ethnic self-esteem.""

Objection by South Korea
As Japan, China and Taiwan pays more attention to South Korean cultural claims, South Korea is aware of the issue. South Korean mass media, however, states that some of these claims were made up by Chinese and Taiwanese people.

For example, according to Dong-a Ilbo, "certain web sites in China’s popular Internet portal Sohu have spread a ridiculous false report" which says that Dong-a ilbo reported that "Park Hyeop-poong, a historian at Seoul National University, believes that four major Chinese inventions displayed at the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony were first invented in Korea, and that the Chinese should apology for copying the Korean inventions" and "Park credited paper-making technique, typography and the compass to Korea and that they later spread to the central Chinese region.” Dong-a Ilbo, however, states that they "never ran such a report and no professor by that name exists at the university."  Dong-a ilbo also annouced that "The daily Xin Kuai Bao in China's Guangdong province ran a fabricated news article on its Web page and put it in its society section. According to the report, the Korean daily Chosun Ilbo reported that Park Bun-gyeong, a historian at Sungkyunkwan University, published a thesis that Sun Yat-sen, China’s founding father, had Korean lineage. Neither the report nor the professor existed, however."

Another example is from KBS. As for Chinese People's Daily's report that Professor Park Jeong-Su at Seoul University states that Chinese charaters are of Korean origin, KBS states that there's no such a professor named Park Jeong-Su at Seoul University and that the report was not ture. Although KBS admits that there are some Korean people who claim for the orgin of Chinese characters, KBS claims that such people are not in the main stream and that they are even laughed at in Korea.

Chosun Ilbo annouced that South Korean cultural claims for Laozi, Confucius, Buddha, the Great Wall, soy milk are all forged by Taiwanese mass media. Chosun Ilbo criticized Taiwanese mass media, calling them "absurd".