[S]omeone who doesn’t know a country’s history is bound to chuckle at the things its people worry about. - Brian Reynolds Myers

[O]ne cannot respect the orthodox version of history without perpetuating the ideology behind it.

[A] peculiar pattern has repeated itself every few weeks or so since Moon took office. It goes like this. First the Blue House is caught in some statement or act of disloyalty to the spirit of the alliance — like appointing an unrepentant former enforcer of North Korean copyrights to the second most powerful post in the government. (I don’t mean the prime minister.) South Korean conservatives then shout in chorus, “The Americans won’t stand for this!” Whereupon the White House rushes to say, in effect, “Oh yes we will!” It seems to revel in making pro-American, security-minded South Koreans look foolish.

The average Korean alive in 1945 was to a far greater degree the product of Japanese rule than the Choson Dynasty.