H. B. Drake, Korea of the Japanese, London, John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1930.
| 첫째로, 외국인들이 한국인들에게 동정심을 가지고 있는 것은 사실이지만 그것만으로 한국인들을 일본의 압제로부터 구원할 수는 없다는것이다. 외국인들이 아무리 선의의 의지를 가지고 있다고 하더라도 누구도 한국인을 도울 수 없으므로 한국은 스스로 일어서야 한다는 것이다. 둘째로, 일본인들이 행하고 있는 한국에서의 활동이 효율성을 갖는 것은 사실이지만 그들이 추구하는 방법과 그 적용을 호의적으로 생각하는 사람은 아무도 없다는 것이다. 그들이 아무리 선의로 출발했다고 하더라도 그들은 남을 돕는 법을 결코 배울 수 없는 민족이다. 따라서 그들의 호의나 개심에 의해서 한국이 독립할 수 있는 희망은 없다. 셋째로, 일본인들의 오만, 주제넘은 호의, 불법적인 작태, 교활함은 한국인들이 자신들의 저하된 정신을 앙양시키기 위한 그들의 초인적이고도 애끓는 노력에 비해 훨씬 앞서 가고 있다는 것이다. (p. 230) |
| One pities the Koreans, but knows them for incorrigible ineffectives ; one admits the Japanese efficiency, but dislikes its methods and applications. With the best will in the world no one can help the Koreans ; and with the best will in the world the Japanese will never learn how to help. Their arrogance, their officiousness, their bursts of injustice, their subtlety, are so much more conspicuous than their superhuman and heart-breaking endeavours to uplift a people incapable to uplift. (p. 11) |
| The Koreans clamour for freedom as children clamour for a world without grown-ups. But who's to cook the dinner, and light the fires, and clean the rooms ? (p. 11) |
| The Koreans as a people are marked down as a prey to any predatory power. Hate domination as they will, it is in their nature to be dominated. (p. 5) |
| Whether Japan has set herself as a remote aim the training of Korea for self-government I don't know. If she has, she is very optimistic. The Koreans are a delightful people, extremely approachable and full of laughter, but they show not the least aptitude for organized control. (p. 148) |
| A corrupt and tyrannous Court persisting from generation to generation is a sure sign of national debility. If a people continues to be badly governed it is because they have it in them to be badly governed. Actively or passively they must be held responsible, and not weakly pitied as innocent victims of an evil beyond their power. (p. 149) |
| For it is not simply that one finds oneself asking, "By what right does Japan rule in Korea ?" The doubt penetrates more deeply : "By what law are the weak devoured of the strong ?" It is not a human law, for human justice and human pity rebel against it. But it is too powerful for human justice and human pity, because too fundamental. The world is driven along the path of its destiny by forces imperative and ruthless. "It is the gods, the gods above, that govern our condition. . . " (p. 80) |
| 그가 한일 합방의 당위성을 주장하고 있는 것도 아니고, 일본이 잘하고 있다고 칭찬하는 것은 아니지만 당분간 조선의 독립이란 어려울것 같다는 체념을 바닥에 깔고 있다. (p. 229) 오히려 그는 그 대답을 체념하고 있는 듯이 말함으로써 일본에 의한 한국의 지배는 상당 기간 지속되리라는 인상을 품기고 있다. (p. 230) |
| At this time I knew little enough of the benefits of the Japanese rule, and wasn't qualified to reply, but my brother could quote China. Liberty under the Chinese nationalists meant liberty for the idle to rob the industrious, for the strong to rob the weak. It was simply that the Government had been removed and bandits sprang up like weeds. (pp. 144-145) |
| … of course we defended the Japanese, because we were doing exactly the same in India as the Japanese were doing in Korea. But what right had we in India? What right had we to impose our regulations on the Indians against their will ? We had made them a nation of slaves. "Certainly," my brother said, "we don't let them burn their widows." (p. 145) |
| Principles which are commonplaces in the West, but not in the East. As, for instance, that without order there can be no liberty ; that liberty is not the birth of a moment, but of the labour of generations. Commonplaces, I repeat ; yet to the Korean mind paradoxes and contradictions. Even to Mary Pak ; intellectually of the West, but emotionally of the East. To her, liberty and order (which she called restriction) were fundamentally opposed ; and being a gift of nature, like the sun and the open air, liberty needed no cultivation, no preparation. Simply one behaved as one pleased, and one was free. And perhaps it is that spirit, rather than national resentment, that is thwarting the work of the Japanese Government in Korea. (pp. 145-146) |
| A further port is to be built somewhere to the north-east, and the line continued beyond Kwainei across Manchuria. When this has been completed Japan will be in absolute control of the Manchurian export trade. And central in this system of commercially strategic railways is the capital. (p. 78) … and from this apathetic exhaustion Japan is striving, with all her resources of ingenuity and power, to lift the country to the level of a modern nation. She has created roads, railways, postal and telegraph services, universal electric lighting, sanitation. Whether these things are benefits or not, they are now there. She has distributed wholesale, and free, the best breeds of fowls, so that the Korean egg is no longer a meagre thing hardly worth the shelling for the meat within, but has both quality and size. She has planted fruit-trees on the hill-sides where rice cannot grow. She has set aside spaces for experimental farms. She has irrigated waste land, is rapidly damming the rivers and building cisterns to obviate both flood and drought. She is afforesting the hills, which, left to themselves, the Koreans completely denuded except in the grounds of palaces and temples and royal tombs. (pp. 146-147) |
| … and young men stripped to the waist washing themselves and one another, or with their mouths in a foam vigorously scrubbing their teeth. But then, this is not Seoul ; this is Keijo intruding again ; for washing is an innovation from Japan. (pp. 98-99) |
| And the factis, that during any typhoid epidemic it is the clean Japanese who die, not the dirty Koreans. There is probably a heavy infant mortality, but those who survive are surprisingly immune from pestilence. (p. 108) |
| But it is sufficient merely to see these people in Western clothes. They know neither how to make nor how to wear them. The trousers, except that they open in front -- quite obviously ! -- might by their shape be reversible. They divide a full six inches too low. They are of the American pattern -- that is, supported by a belt instead of braces ; but the Easterner has no hips, and the belt is certain to miss a loop or two, so when the jacket is off, which is frequent, the trousers hang from the waist in uncertain festoons overlapped by tags of shirt. (p. 87) |
| And not merely brains for organization, but that peculiar gift for judicial rectitude and political honesty which is the portion in some measure of all the Western nations, but in the East of the Japanese alone. (p. 149) |
| It was in 1910 that Japan formally annexed Korea, and with curious ill taste jubilantly celebrates the anniversary each year in the subjugated country. She does so with evident misgivings, because a few days before the event the prisons fill with suspected malcontents, who later are released without accusation and without trial, having suffered no worse than a temporary confinement in an extremely up-to-date cell and a daily baptism of cold water. (p. 4) |
| I watched the Korean students to see how they responded to this alien patriotism. To all appearance they sang with much the same abandon as the Japanese, though perhaps not with the same ecstatic closing of the eyes, throw back of the head, straining of the throat. And certainly here and there a face or two showed glum, remembering, possibly, the days when Korea possessed an Emperor of her own. (pp. 30-31) |
| It mingles with the memory of Yu See Kuk in our inn at Kyung Ju rhapsodizing in broken English on the beauty of the Chinese Classics, and complaining that, being obliged to study them in the Japanese version, the beauty was outraged, whereas studied in the Korean . . . But I know nothing of that. (p. 131) |
| It was natural that Mary Pak should see in her people a magnified example of her own case. The Japanese imposed their laws on the Koreans without the Koreans' consent. Her country was justified in its resentment, would be justified, if it had the power, in resistance. Indeed, the girl manifested sufficient "dangerous thought" to lodge her in jail, I should imagine, for the rest of her life. (p. 144) |
| But all the Korean sees is that whereas water was free he must now pay three yen (six shillings) a year, and that he may only chop such wood for his house and his fire as the authorities permit. And it is useless to tell him that for six shillings a year he has perhaps a doubled rice-crop, and is completely relieved of the menace of famine ; and that, although wood-cutting is restricted, at least he has wood to cut, whereas before he had nothing but the yearly shrub that sprouted on the mountains. (p. 147) |
