22/2/2018 Koreans are extremely different people. (2)


North Korea is today’s most dangerous country in the world and South Korea is the most risky country since it is weighing USA with China for a friend. The world divided the Korean Peninsula into two and has created two problematic countries. If it had not done so, it would have faced only one problematic country. Only Koreans in the world are unable to unite long after the end of the Cold War.
Koreans are the world’s most difficult people to understand. One of the reasons is that they pretend to be under democracy with separation of powers. Another is that their culture is not sufficiently refined and quite childish. Still another is that they have subordinate mind because they have been surrounded by big countries through history.
People in the world were dumbfounded by the backbiting diplomacy of the former South Korean President Park Geun-hye. Was the president a primary school pupil? Most South Korean presidents were prosecuted and some were sentenced to death. It is hard to find similar cases in other countries. South Koreans repeat this history without questioning their own character. Most people in the world will be surprised to know that courts’ decisions really depend on public opinion in South Korea.
Koreans often devise quite mean (diplomatic) strategies. For example, when US President Trump visited South Korea, he was induced without being given sufficient information to hug an old woman who was said later to have been a ‘comfort woman’ during WWII. In addition, he was served Dokdo shrimp to demonstrate to the world that Takeshima (Dokdo in Korean) is South Korea’s territory. As a matter of fact, South Korea took the islands from Japan after WWII, when Japan did not have self-defense forces.
When sports events were held in South Korea several years ago, many South Korean supporters gathered outside the hotel where South Korea’s opponent team stayed and kept up continual noises throughout the night before the game.
South Koreans set up several statues of ‘comfort women’ in some countries. One is installed outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul and another outside the Japanese Consulate in Busan violating international law.
It is clear that South Korea is using the Pyeong Chang Olympic Games for political and diplomatic purposes. Even though pressure is necessary against North Korea, President of South Korea Moon Jae-in is sending the world a message that the two countries are friends.
How mean these strategies are! It is actually impossible to have normal relations with people without pride.

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