“They can't understand why any American in his right mind who's not escaping a jail term or something, would voluntarily want to come to [South] Korea and live here.”

—  Brian Reynolds Myers

On how South Koreans view U.S. expatriates in South Korea
2010s, Interview with Colin Marshall (February 2015)

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