The winner over suffering gains a fighter's view of life, like Prometheus. The one who gives in to suffering, on the other hand, turns to fatalism. The people of Korea became enslaved to fatalism when they began to retreat from the frontlines of life, overwhelmed by the repeated onsets of suffering. They lost faith. They forgot that their spirit was invincible.
Faith is what makes one invincible.
Because this was lost, because the soul withered, imprisonment followed. In difference the two are one hundred and eighty degrees apart, but for that very reason their starting point is the same. It will not require a major conversion for this nation to enter a higher faith. Despair can easily become trust, stagnation change into lan. Reforming our way of living we certainly have heard of.