Peace is hell. Few Koreans, with their years of English classes and Hollywood movie and TV viewing, understand just how foreign Korea is to some young GI who has never even left his home state before and finds himself on an American island in Korea. She was a lawyer, fluent in Vietna mese, French, and English. He was a low-level office worker who had met her when he was fighting in Vietnam and got her out as Saigon fell. He constantly ridiculed her Korean language mistakes, insisted the family eat only Korean food, beat her, and treat ed her like a servant.
Every trend is in the wrong direction.
I think we have to get out. Let the Koreans solve their own problems now. They're capable of doing so, and we have other things to do. The others won't be going back. The Americans the Koreans see will then look a lot more appealing, as will the Koreans the Americans encounter.