A Response to the Student’s Article
April 17, 2007This was a response by to the students article which it can be found here
WHAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM OF THE PHILIPPINES?
by: Michael KimI am a middle-aged Korean, an MBA graduate, an experienced ex-banker and presently am the editor of a newly born local newspaper in the Philippines.
I was so sad when I read the essay about Korean and Filipino patriotism written in 2003 by Jaeyoun Kim, a Korean student who attended La Salle Greenhills, an all boys’ school in the Philippines.
Like many readers, I have felt deep pain and sorrow after reading this touching article. I understand their sadness and am reminded of the terrible experiences we Koreans also had.
First of all, we were colonized by Japan for thirty-six long years before they finally surrendered at the end of World War II. We then suffered another three years fighting the Korean War against North Korea’s communist regime from 1950-1953 resulting all in ruins. These poverty-stricken years beyond any one’s imagination lasted in the 1960-1970’s. We actually went through a lot of hell the same way Filipinos experienced painful colonial conquest.
