Thank you for smacking down that Park worship. I don't understand that ridiculous Korean religion that says former dictators were all wonderful because they did x, when it is patently obvious that they were lowlifes--by Western standards. Maybe it's because some folks have no frame of reference culturally, having watched Clinton run the country here so long like his own cathouse, but jeez, Park was a ruthless dictator if ever there was one.
I think Ptarmigan here was just explaining that a South Korean leader (Park Chung Hee in the 1970s) had worked in the past to shore up relations with Japan. I was just observing that he later got killed, maybe not for that. I hope the relationship between Japan and Korea is still improving. There was a history of bitterness there that the end of WWII hopefully drew to a close. The Korean war saw Japanese helping Koreans defend themselves from the scourge of communism.