When Lee Seung-duk, who went to the United States as plenipotentiary during the Joseon Dynasty,
came into contact with each ethnic group, he found that Koreans were inferior to the Indians
despised by Americans, and inferior to other ethnic groups such as Mexico and India.
Shocked by that he said:
"With the present Korean competence, Korea is not able to save it from disgrace as an independent
nation definitely.We cannot avoid losing our country as it stands now.
The only way left for us to escape from becoming a people without a country is to merge into
another country. And Japan is the only country that annexes Korea.
Westerners think Koreans as dogs or pigs, but Japan does not.
I don't like the Japanese trying to give a sermon to us with the Japanese morality, but this is
because the Japanese think Koreans are the same human as themselves.
And the Japanese are the only qualified people to guide the Koreans and make them participate in
the civilization of the world.
Other than that, there is no way for the Korean people to escape from the life of pigs and receive
their happiness as humans.
It is strange that Japan-Korea consolidation should be a problem. My view of annexation between
Japan and Korea was based on the Western view of Koreans. "
From the book "Enlightenment of Lee Kanjou and Japan-Korea harmony", written by Lee Seung-Dam,
Ambassador of the Korean Plenary
