My name is Daniel. I was an English teacher in Seoul, South Korea, and now I am a writer who has published

three books including South Korea: Oust Story by Daniel Nardini.

                    One thing that got my attention was a lone protester in front of the Chinese embassy more or less recently. The protester, South Korean Representative Won Yoo-chul, was protesting the Chinese government's attempts at using economic pressure against South Korea and against the Lotte Corporation. What saddens

me is that he was the ONLY one to protest what China has been doing to South Korea. Unlike the Japanese

embassy, which receives protests from hundreds of thousands of South Koreans, the Chinese embassy is

very quiet by comparison. It should not be. More than anything, the current Chinese government owes a very

deep and very long apology to South Korea for all of the terrible things that it has done. For a start, it should

apologize for helping North Korea in the Korea War and the fact it helped not only to kills millions more Koreans

but prolong the war for two years and keep the peninsula divided which it does to this day. Since 1945, Japan

has killed no Koreans even when both South Korea and China have island disputes with each other. China

on the other hand has killed one South Korean coast guard officer when Chinese fishermen illegally fished in

South Korean waters. Now China has not only called for a boycott of Lotte's department stores in China but is banning all Chinese from going to South Korea because the South Korean government has accepted the THAAD anti-missile system to defend itself against North Korea's missile attacks. Where are the other tens of thousands

of protesters to what the Chinese government is doing? While we see hundreds of thousands of leftist protesters against Japan for what it did 71 years ago, why are they not protesting what China is doing to South Korea now?

Where is their patriotism for their country?