Friday, September 9, 2011

Korean Unification Less Popular

Everyone in South Korea is supposed to believe in reunification with North Korea. Both leftists and rightists are officially committed to this view, although they see it happening in different ways.

Many young people, aware of how hard reunification was for Germany, have lost enthusiasm for the experience. An Asia Times article by Andrei Lankov guesses that many in South Korea would privately say:
As a good Korean I cannot say that I am against unification, but I clearly would prefer for this wonderful event to not take place in my lifetime.