[ctdonath2]

Visited Seoul about 12 years ago. Saw several very large handwritten screeds pasted graffiti-like onto signs, lots of verbiage in Korean. Asked my host what it meant? “Yankee go home.”

[skeeter]

Shortly after an accident where a korean girl was killed in an accident with a US military vehicle a few years ago, an America serviceman who was kidnapped & beaten by a south Korean mob and taken to a soccer stadium where he was forced to apologize to tens of thousands of people.

Where its a matter of overwhelming local sentiment I don't think US policy has much of a choice.