I hope that it can be impressed upon the Department that here we are not dealing with wealthy U.S. educated Koreans, but with early [sic], poorly trained, and poorly educated Orientals strongly affected by 40 years of Jap control, who stubbornly and fanatically hold to what they like and dislike, who are definitely influenced by direct propaganda and with whom it is almost impossible to reason.
- Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge
Foreign Relations of the United States 1946 Vol.8, Government Printing Office, 1974, p.630
세월이 흐르고 교육수준은 높아졌건만 근본적인 바탕은 변하지 않았다는 듯한 느낌.
참 난감하죠.
쩝;;;