Funny how times change, but things stay the same.

Quotes from the turn of the century:

"An Englishman was once heard to say that the dirtiest man he ever saw was a clean Corean"

Dirty!

"Deeply impressed with their poverty, dirt, love of drink, and degradation"

Drunkards!

"magine mud-walled hovels with thatched or tiled roofs so low that the eaves are within six feet of the ground, all built with their backs to the street, and with their chimneys pouring out their smoke just on a level with your nose ; the privies, built so that they overhang the ditch at the side of the street, only used by the women, the men and children commonly using the street itself, which is without sidewalks, and is practically but an open sewer, fortunately washed out annually by good Dame Nature at the time of the rainy season. If you can imagine these things, then you have before you a picture of the average street in the capital city of the Hermit Nation."

Filthy Seoul!

"Coreans are the emptiest-headed, most childlike, and most generally foolish people"

Foolish Korean!

"The silliness of mind, the almost hopeless and incurable credulity and absolute absence of sound judgement which characterizes, with exceedingly few exceptions"

Simple people!

"There is no such thing as cause and effect in Korea[...] The Korean might well be placarded the Unconscious Human. Just now round about him are gathering shadows and mutterings, the full import of which he seems to hear not; at any rate which he certainly understands not."

Korean logic!

http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2008/07/century-…

Its a good read. Most of the same thigns were said by Hendrik Hammel in 1666, and said today by any average perons who goes to korea.