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You still find older Koreans who will talk about gratitude for the rescue in the Korean war. I'd say the predominant current feeling is one of being fed-up with the colony role, and having the US hold so much power in the country. There's a strong sense that the US, apart from bushco even, is mainly interested in Korea for economic/political gain - not for the good of Korea. These are simply reflections of sentiments that have been around for decades - people are just more open about expressing them. For example, I used to play Korean chess with a couple of buddhist monks who lived in a mountain temple near my town. We were talking politics once (this was in 1972), when one of them made the remark that "we koreans have a great deal of sympathy for vietnam, since we are also occupied by the american army". That dropped my jaw a bit, I'll tell you. Quite a change from the "we're so thankful to our big brother" line.
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