Monday, August 18, 2003
HOW DO AMERICANS VIEW SOUTH KOREA AND THE EVER CLOSER TIES BETWEEN THE ROK AND THE PRC? Jae Ho Chung has a thoughtful piece on this subject here (Adobe Acrobat Reader required). (read the abstract here).
One of the more interesting things that Chung discusses is the fact that despite billions of dollars and thousands of troops stationed over the decades, few Americans see South Korea as an ally at all, let alone an important one (recently, the ROK has appeared as an enemy in polls of American public opinion). Is Korea's turn back to China merely a reverting to past patterns of "Serving the Great" (sadae)? Perhaps.
