Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
About TK
- T.K. (Ask a Korean!)
- The Korean is a Korean American living in Washington D.C. He lived in Seoul until he was 16, then moved to Los Angeles area. The Korean refers to himself in the third person because he thinks it sounds cool.
Subscribe To
Posts
Comments
Hindsight is 20/20.
ReplyDeleteThe article definitely casts Teddy Roosevelt and the U.S. in a terrible light. But did the U.S. really "sell out" Korea, or was it just playing realpolitik? Japan no doubt would have taken over the peninsula anyway. Was the U.S. prepared to stand in Japan's way? Doubtful.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Teddy was just trying to prevent the rise of K-pop, 95 years in advance.
Well, all he did was encourage the rise of J-pop, which influenced K-pop in the end. So fail.
ReplyDelete