如此屈尊俯就的姿态在韩国军事独裁政权需要美国给予政治保护及安全保障时或许还勉强站得住脚，可现在韩国已经成为了东亚地区的民主范例。
Such condescension may have been defensible when South Korea’s military dictatorship needed America’s political protection and security guarantee, but now the country is a beacon of democracy in East Asia.