I received a forwarded email containing the essay that was written by Korean national Jaeyoun Kim.
Here are my comments about his essay. For sure Kim means well and I can feel his love for us Filipinos.
1. Filipinos always complain about corruption in our government. Kim’s right, the pastime of the Filipino nation is complaining. We complain but we do not have any effort that would solve our problems. We complain and expect too much from our government yet we do not pay our taxes. We criticize the people in the government yet we do not participate in the election process. We complain about our elected official when in fact we voted them to office.
2. Korea emerges from the ruins of two wars. Korea rose from being the poorest in the region to become one of the economic superpower in Asia. They have to rebuild their nation from scratch without natural resources. They use to envy us but now we envy them.
3. Korean migrant workers. Koreans had to work outside their country in order to survive. Like our OFWs, they send money to their love ones and at the same time helps the Korean economy. The good thing is that their professional engineers, nurses, professors came back home and shared what they learned from other countries to Korea.
4. Catholic Upbringing. I personally believe that something is wrong with the Catholic Faith. South American countries, Mexico and other small countries in the Caribbean are predominantly catholic countries and they’re poor. The same thing is true with the Philippines. There is something oppressive about the Catholic faith.
5. Love of Country. We are not a patriotic people and we do not love our country.
Truth hurts but that’s how Jaeyoun Kim and other nation perceive us. I can accept being poor but the accusation that we do not love our country is too much to bear. But that’s the fact, Filipinos do not love their country. As long as we don’t love our country and accept responsibility for our failure, we will not prosper as a nation.
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