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The Korean word for Korea is Hangook. The Korean tire brand Hankook is a variant spelling of this. Pretty sure the term "gook" came from servicemen in Korea shortening this word.
In "From Here To Eternity", published in 1951, and set a decade earlier, characters, US soldiers stationed in Hawaii, use the term 'gook' to refer to East Asian immigrants(Japanese, Chinese, Fillipino) in Hawaii. The term "gook shirt" is used in reference to what we now call "Hawaiian shirts". Judging by that, the term was in use well before US troops got to Korea. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.212.80.149 ( talk) 21:20, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
They certainly not called the "insurgents" as GOOK's, but as "TERR's" for terrorist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.154.198.108 ( talk) 17:11, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Apparently, this is not the case. They do appear to have been called gooks by some who lived through those times. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Strangely, the Rhodesianforces.org website makes no mention of terrs, but it does mention gooks. [6] Bromley86 ( talk) 14:12, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
the article COMPLETELY ignores all known scholarship on the matter. every good linguist knows that the word bounced around the spanish empire for quite some time before popping up in english.
they may have picked it up from the word "gugo" (tree and the sap thereof, used as shampoo) in cebuano (not "filipino"/"tagalog") as the article mentions, but it was not the yanks doing it. it was spanish applying it to filipinos, then to cubans, then to haitians, then to nicaraguans, then to who knows who.
somewhere in one of these later spots, yanks started using it. but it was applied to every latino, black, indian, and other minority of the spanish empire long before anyone (yanks?) refocused it back on filipinos. and then vietnamese.
this is all well-known and well-documented. what is still up for debate is whether the spanish originally got it from "gugo". 209.172.25.100 ( talk) 03:07, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
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About the reference 8 [1], I have read the source, which tells 'niggers' were slur (term) for Filipinos because of their dark complexion. I searched the whole book with keyword 'Korea' but did not find any source linking with slur 'nigger'. The mention about Koreans in first paragraph of etymology makes no sense. Garypark ( talk) 19:13, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
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This is categorized as Anti-Japanese sentiment, but it isn't mentioned in the article. Benjamin ( talk) 09:40, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
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See https://greensdictofslang.com/search/basic?q=gook for citations to improve the article. Richard-of-Earth ( talk) 15:21, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Gook was first used by US troops in the Spanish American War Philippines Theater to describe how the Filipinos looked. ItsACityOfApes ( talk) 02:01, 16 January 2023 (UTC)