Do I Hate Korea?

The Easy Way Out

 
The short answer is -- no.

One reason the process does not change in Korea is that those who complain about the anti-U.S. and USFK attitude are easily dismissed as just being Korea-haters.

Almost all Koreans faced with complaints about their attitude toward America will go in this direction, and many foreigners who want to keep the good feeling about their experience in a foreign land will go there as well.

You can find expats who hate Korea in country and on the internet.  Most of them are former English instructors who worked in the terrible private language institutes in Korea.  I used to tell Korean adult students that it wasn't good for the English language industry to cheat and mistreat so many educated Westerners, because we would speak out and were better able to get our message out than 3-D (dangerous, difficult, and dirty jobs Koreans don't want to do) workers mostly from poor South East Asian and Middle Eastern nations like Pakistan and some North African nations like Morocco.

However, I have lived  in Korea for many years, because I find enough in the society to make it worthwhile.  The vast majority of Koreans I meet are friendly, and most of the problems in Korea are the same in every industrialized nation but vary in degree.  Some of the negative degrees are too high and should change, but the U.S. has areas to work on as well.

This does not mean, contrary to what some foreigners from the West say, that everything is "relative" and you have no room to complain about this or that in Korea.

But I cannot and will never accept the hypocritical and hate-filled process Korea uses against USFK.  I could even live with the development and venting of hate-U.S. if our troops were pulled out.