Park Chan-wook Quotes
When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
Choe, Steve, editor. Park Chan-wook: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
This was a big factor that made the Red Scare so damaging.
The speech writer, Anthony R. Dolan, had written, “Now and forever, Russia is an Evil Empire. Reagan crossed out “Now and forever” as he had the optimism that the Soviet Union would fall and Russia would reform at a time when only Senator Pat Moynahan had ever suggested the idea.
The Kuomintang nationalists under Chiang Kai-Shek tried to stay in power in China, but their corruption and incompetency at government lost them the support of most of the Chinese. The Chinese communists took over the government. The Nationalists then invaded the offshore island of Taiwan but claimed to be the rightful government of all of China. For many years they controlled the Chinese seat in the UN and they refused to recognize the fact that they had failed to gain the loyalty of the Chinese people.
While Lenin was admired for his skill by his revolutionary colleagues, many had their concerns.
Baldwin had written a book praising revolutionary communism in Russia, but like many other American socialists, grew disillusioned with Russian Communism and Joseph Stalin’s dictatorship especially when in 1939 the Russians became allied with Hitler and Germany. Russia’s repression of civil liberties was far worse than anything he had seen in America. He was so negative about Russian Communism that in the early 1940s, he ejected all members of the Communist Party from membership in the ACLU.
Churchill put great store in personal interaction in diplomacy.
Harriman at that time was the United States Ambassador to Russia and one of President Roosevelt’s closest advisers. There were those who claimed that the Roosevelt administration was very naïve about the potential danger of Stalin. This statement as well as others like it, show that the administration was not so naïve and ignorant.
Park Chan-wook is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, producer, and former film critic. One of the most acclaimed and popular filmmakers in the world, Park is best known for his films Joint Security Area (2000), Thirst (2009), The Handmaiden (2016) and what has become known as The Vengeance Trilogy, consisting of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005).
