"Criticizing Japan has become such an integral part of Korean daily mentality," former Brookings Institution Korea Chair Katharine Moon notes in a 2015 interview, "it's moved from the realm of politics and policy to something very personal in people's work life, home life".
Korean people's mentality for Japan is of the same situation.
He did what few had done before and questioned the once-fabled and rarely-doubted mentality of the Korean players.
Another complex mentality of modern Korean people is developed as a result of Korea's subordinate status and suffering from invasion and colonization in the history, and the combination of the past backwardness and today's achievements.
Korean people maintain a very complex mentality both for China and Japan.
At some point during the past five years however, Koreans grew tired of the growth mentality.
Due to their greater population density and expectation that they would one day be allowed to return to Korea, the Sakhalin Koreans have kept something of a sojourner mentality rather than a settler mentality, which influenced their relation to the surrounding society; even today, they tend to speak much better Korean than those who were deported to Central Asia.
This time-warp mentality explains why, by the beginning of 2004, a South Korean household will be able to get a hundred times the broadband capacity for an online personal computer at about the same cost an American household pays.
There are several big Korean communities in Beijing and Qingdao, but cannot fundamentally change Korean people's mentality for China.
Although the Korean War was the critical factor in antagonizing North Korea for the South Korean populace, anticommunism was not the ruling ideology or mentality of South Korean society in its immediate aftermath.
