米国大統領 Herbert Hoover;  日本が併合したおかげで韓国は発展した

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 Former US president Hebert Hoover wrote in his book "Freedom Betrayed", completed in 1965, as follows:

 I first visited Korea in 1909, to advise some Japanese Industrialists on engineering matters. The Korean people at that time were in the most disheartening condition that I had witnessed in any part of Asia. There was little law and order. The masses were underfed, under-clothed, under housed and under equipped. There was no sanitation, and filth and squalor enveloped the whole countryside. The
 roads were hardly passable, and there were scant communication or educational facilities. Scarcely a tree broke the dismal
 landscape. Thieves and bandits seemed to be unrestrained.

During the thirty-five years of Japanese control, the life of the Korean people was revolutionized. Beginning with this most unpromising human material, the Japanese established order, built harbors, railways, roads and communications, good public  buildings, and greatly improved housing. They established sanitation and taught better methods of agriculture. They built immense fertilizer factories in North Korea which lifted the people's food supplies to reasonable levels. They reforested the bleak hills.  They established a general system of education and the development of skills. Even dusty, drab and filthy clothing had been replace with clean bright colors.

 The Koreans, compared to the Japanese, were poor at administration and business. Whether for this reason or by deliberate action, the Japanese filled all major economic and governmental positions. Thus, in 1948, when they finally achieved self-government, the
 Koreans were little prepared for it.
 President Hoover visited Korea in 1946 again. He witnessed the before and after of Japanese rule.

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