IMPASSIVE KOREANS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 44, 23 February 1904, Page 1

IMPASSIVE KOREANS.

('•'• By the pvil star of the Koreans (writes Mr Reginald Farrar, in a ■' Nineteenth Century '• articte on. ' Iniprcsgions of Korea ■'■.), it hag been arranged that their land is to be the Switzerland of the Far East a territory to be fought over for ever, but one that no nation can either itself possess or allow any other to hold. Korea is the victim jf hor googr-aphical advantages, and the impressionist carries away w.th him the picture of a people indamitably patient, 'dumb with the callousness of despair, that yet has the secret of happiness in its power to extract joy from the most unpromi^'wg material ; a nation stutinod by tho Oppression of the ages out of all moral and merttal vig-our —Vet still stout, ahd capable, perhaps, of 1 brJth — a fiatiiort Of sturdy apathetic sheep, whose slknt indifferetice ufider tlie drivirig lash of tho world may stfhie d a y be 1 found unexpectedly to have its limits Or its possibilities."