The South Korean students are quite Naive about their northern neighbor. I told a professor at Korea University that, Park Chung Hui was a benevolent dictator and the south would never had achieved a democratic government with out him. Korean history is full of examples of able leaders during times of crisis being cut of by political opponents with slander. Left there has no shame as here.
Indeed.
Its worse than that. I work with older South Koreans here and they at least understand and appreciate that they aren’t living with their ‘’cousins’’ in one big, happy workers paradise but the youth of S.Korea and some of the older S. Koreans think we did nothing for them sixty years ago , don’t doing anything for them presently and would be happy to see us out their country. I remember thumbing through an issue of The National Geographic magazine and seeing an article titled’’The Two Koreas’’ I came across a picture of a resteruant in Seoul with a sign in the window, in English, “Americans not welcome’’. Nice people.